Modern Dance II / Fall 2021

    Who was Isadora Duncan? Episode 2 - Isadora's Loves     Who was Isadora Duncan? Isadora's Political Dances WATCH THE VIDEOS     Question 1 Based on the video above, summarize the main aspects of Isadora Duncan's life.    Question 2 2. Which aspect of Duncan's artistic journey resonated with you? Explain. -------------- READ THE ARTICLE LINK Can Isadora Duncan Solos be Danced by a Man?     Question 3 After reading the quote below:    how do you think we should approach the learning aspect of modern dance?   In her autobiography, ''My Life,'' Isadora Duncan cautioned her followers. '' Don't imitate me,'' she wrote, and said that it was necessary for them to go back to the beginning to find something in themselves first. ''Unless your dancing springs from an inner emotion and expresses an idea, it will be meaningless.''   ---------------------------- Activity 1 Of these two pieces below, choose the piece that you...

  QUIZ 1. Which ideas created by Rudolph Laban are important for dance? 2. Which cultural movement influenced Laban's movement ideas? Why? 3. What was the main difference between Mary Wigman's approach to dance and Laban's approach? 4. Why was Wigman's dance expressionist? 5. What culture influenced Isadora Duncan's dance style? Explain.   6. Why were the Elgin Marbles important for Duncan's dance style?  7. Why is the solar-plexus important in the study of Duncan's dance style? 8. Why was Kurt Jooss' piece The Green Table an important piece in the evolution of modern dance? 9. In which way have these dance/movement styles influenced your own dance abilities?   10. List the phrases we have put together so far, both, for your ensemble piece and your solo piece.

  Question 1 After listening to Duncan's quotation, what would you say was her goal for women's dance?  Question 2 How does the ideal person in Ancient Greece fit Duncan's model of a dancer? Question 3 How did transcendentalism influence her dance? Question 4 What does focus mean in Duncan technique? Question 5 How do focus and flow relate to the solar plexus or center of the chest?  Question 6 What does Duncan virtuosity mean? ------------------------------------ Activity Working with light fabric individually. Throwing fabric and grabbing it before it falls Couples, exchange fabrics as they are thrown Let go of the fabric, and now use your arms as if your are throwing fabric. Activity Walking across the space. Directions Emphasis on the meta-tarsus Using arms with random movement through the space.   Activity   Moving across the space running low impact on meta-tarsus running throwing fabric with right hand running throwing fabric with left hand running with b...

 -------------------------------------------   TODAY'S CONTENT Question 1  Why are the Elgin Marbles important for dance studies?  --------------- ACTIVITY Observe the following pictures of the Elgin Marbles used by Isadora Duncan to create her dance vocabulary.   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Activity Create 8 movements based on these photos.  Organize them in a phrase. Create transitions between movements. Post your phrase on Discussion Board.  ----------------------- Question 2 Whey would Duncan choose the Ancient Greek statues for her dance vocabulary? Question 3 Write a reflection about your experience with your dance work.        

 I  WARM UP II Stretching III   Activity 1 Solo Work Create a phrase in which you apply each one of the movements described above. Record and post your phrase on Discussion Board. -------------------- IV Watch the following videos. Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about dance. Using the questions below as prompts, they write about them and post their reflections on Discussion Board.   Mary Wigman Question 1 Write your response to Wigman's dance performance in this video.   Harald Kreutzberg Question 2 What qualities of Wigman's movement groups are shown in Harald Kreutzberg's dance. Movement, Sound, Word Question 3 Why is the use movement, sound and word important aspects of expressionist dance?   Interview with Kurt Jooss Question 4 What does Jooss mean when he says that The Green Table is a ceremony of death? The Green Table Question 5 After seeing the video clip of The Green Table , write your response to the piece.  -...

I  Warm up II Stretching III Video   INFLUENCES   Die Brücke  and  Der Blaue Reiter IV Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about dance. Using the question below as a prompt, they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. Question 1 Based on this video, what is expressionism? V Video   Arnold Schönberg Analysis Students discuss among themselves Schönberg's ideas about music. Using the question below as a prompt, they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. Question 2  After watching Bernstein's presentation on Schönberg's music, what aspect of Schonberg's music could have influenced Wigman's ideas about dance? ------------------------------------------------ VI LINKS: Reading Expressivity Schools Check the link and scroll down to page 110. VII Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about expression, using the question below as a prompt, they write about it...

I Warm Up II Stretching III Video IV Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about dance. Using the question below as a prompt, they post they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. QUESTION 1   According to Mary Wigman; what are the two things a dance must always do? V Video Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about dance. Using the question below as a prompt, they post they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. QUESTION 2   What does the narrator mean when he says that "Wigman was able to transport moves simply with her movements"?   ------------------------------- VI VIDEO - LINK Harold Kreutzberg   Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about dance as illustrated in Kreutzberg's work. Using the question below as a prompt, they post they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. QUESTION 3 In this video Ha...

  I Warm Up II  Stretching III Concept: Space and Relationship / Laban's Cube   Apace and Relationship T he kinesphere is also the container of a cube (containing all diagonal directions and dimensions) and of an icosahedron made by three bi-dimensional planes: it contains angular geometry inside a round geometry. IV Activity Students experience what is like to move inside the imaginary cube, first individually (by following directions as to how to place themselves inside of it) then collectively (by using their creativity as each member of the group engages in different position). V Analysis Students discuss among themselves  their experience moving inside the imaginary cube. They use the question below as a prompt to write their reflections about the  relationship of the body with the space on Discussion Board.    Question 1 Explain in your own words the meaning of the kinesphere within the Laban's cube?   --------------- VI Concept: 4 Compon...