1. Interpretive Dance Theatre Studies

2. What was Modern dance trying to break away from? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eX CtVj-nRA

3. Isadora Duncan (May 27, 1877 – September 14, 1927) was an American dancer. Born in California, she lived in Western Europe and the Soviet Union from the age of 22 until her death at age 50. She performed to acclaim throughout Europe after being exiled from the United States for her pro-Soviet sympathies. Breaking with convention, she traced the art of dance back to its roots as a sacred art.

4. http://www.yo utube.com/wat ch?v=mhzjCSq wL_0 Duncan restored dance to a high place among the arts. Breaking with convention, she traced the art of dance back to its roots as a sacred art. She developed within this idea, free and natural movements inspired by the classical Greek arts, folk dances, social dances, nature and natural forces as well as an approach to the new American athleticism which included skipping, running, jumping, leaping and tossing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vXv eVce0sI http://www.youtu be.com/watch?v= V7H31cnTICM

5. Martha Graham Martha Graham’s impact on dance was staggering and often compared to that of Picasso’s on painting, Stravinsky’s on music, and Frank Lloyd Wright’s on architecture. Her contributions transformed the art form, revitalizing and expanding dance around the world. In her search to express herself freely and honestly, she created the Martha Graham Dance Company, one of the oldest dance troupes in America. http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=Lr8OqS7glxk http://www.youtube.c om/watch?v=LQXSzZo q78U

6. For Graham, ballet’s concern with flow and grace left behind more violent traditional passions. Graham believed that through spastic movements, tremblings, and falls she could express emotional and spiritual themes ignored by other dance. She desired to evoke strong emotions, and achieved these visceral responses through the repetition of violently disjunctive movements. She formed the now famous Martha Graham School for Contemporary Dance in New York.

7. It is nearly impossible to track the influence of Martha Graham. She is universally understood to be the twentieth century’s most important dancer, and the mother of modern dance. was the first choreographer to regularly employ both Asian- and African-American Dancers. Her contributions to the art of stage design and dance production are countless. Martha Graham’s continued experimentation and her constant attention to human emotion, frailty, and perseverance, is one of the greatest individual achievements in American cultural history.

8. Modern Dance Today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSkpZFLLbU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ-1cq8ibwg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990AYHaJgJc http://youtu.be/vRWdIwCGjbE