Reflections on Dance and Dancing By: Selma Jeanne Cohen & Classic and Romantic Ballet By: Lincoln Kirstein Presented By: Natalie Bourcier & Andrew Elder and Edited By: Laura Pratt and Dr. Picart

Classic Ballet ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________ ________________________________

Five Positions of Classic Ballet

Romantic Ballet What is Romantic ballet?

Key Points for Being Romantic Did not forswear reality but ____________,_________, and __________. – it is _______ without _______, ________and ________. A localized theatrical echo of a transient literary and artistic movement The appearance of “program music” – __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Bring flowers

Styles of Dance Ballet Modern Broadway- Musical- Type

Ballet & Outwardness outwardness is derived by the ________ of the legs in the hip socket, opened by the erect ______, the lifted _____ and the raise of the ____on a vertical, long, relaxed spine in everyday life, _________ is impractical due to its consumption of space outwardness characterizes India’s Bharata Natya where the legs are also turned out but the dancer is now grounded, weighted

Components of Classical Dance ___________ All of which embody a dancer with grace, effortless and flowing

Modern Dance founded at the end of World War I in a spirit of revolt, made the individual the ______; “the materializing of inner experience” (Martin 246)

Components of Modern Dance _______ rather than lightness ___________ rather than flow ___________ rather than balanced design __________rather than concealment of process

Modern Ballet Evolutionized with modern dance producing a style which displays ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ __________________________.

Problems The lithe bodies of today’s dancers fail to attack their movements with sufficient force, with sufficient weight, for the style of early modern dance works. Is this True?

A new dance form? think of Cunningham: light but unballetic Cunningham’s dancers are precise, skilled and impersonal His choreography links smooth movements to heterogeneous movements by a violence or a discursive flow

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