Etienne Decroux Life And Accomplishments

Therefore, she has dedicated much of her work into researching Le Sacre du Printemps. In “Searching for Nijinsky’s Sacre”, Hodson lists the many sources for studies on the subject. She interviewed Marie Rambert, a dancer who assisted Nijinsky’s with his choreography, and she received details of Nijinsky’s specific technique and how strenuous it was for the dancers to learn and rehearse. Hodson also studied Valentine Gross’s sketches of choreography, original costumes, and spoke with Louis Speyer, an oboist of the original orchestra. In addition, she also spoke with members of Nijinsky’s family including his daughter, Kyra Nijinsky. This article went into great depth in explaining Le Sacre du Printemps, and showed the great amount of passion the author has for preserving the ballet.

Antoine Watteau’s La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat) uses many elements of the Rococo style of painting to instill a sense of intimacy. In this painting, members of the elite society gather unceremoniously in a wooded clearing. The people make casual exchanges as they mingle in the park. Trees and foliage dominate a majority of the painting. A small white building can be seen in the background through a clearing in the trees. Watteau uses color, composition, setting, and pose in the painting to create intimacy.

Jacques Cousteau was a man of all trades. He was a photographer, inventor of diving devices, undersea explorer, soldier, writer, oceanographer, and documentary host (“Jacques Cousteau biography,” n.d.). He developed the first ever trademarked SCUBA device titled the Aqua-Lung (“Invention; the Aqua lung,” n.d.). SCUBA is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Cousteau made his grand entrance June 11, 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France. Cousteau was a sickly child, who the doctors told not to participate in any strenuous activity. He learned to swim at age 4 and soon developed a love for the sea as well as developing a mechanical aptitude (“Jacques Cousteau biography - life,” n.d.).

Another strong philosophy that LeCoq had was that the actors body was a crucial part of creating dramatic meaning in the theatre- more important than dialogue, He believed it gave the actors a more diversified and a more genuine ability to truly ‘Play’ and explore that which they were performing. Jacques LeCoq had a background in philosophy so he knew the interests of society were expressing our bodies by doing a number of things, such as- Dressing them, decorating them, modifying the shape of them, showing them off and for some people, hiding them. This is where LeCoq found and established his philosophy; that because human beings have such an obsession over their body such as, dieting, physical appearance, age and beauty. His goal was to show these things in the theatre. Jacques LeCoq was a very extravagant and imaginative practitioner, he was renown for this quote- “Be quiet, play and theatre is born.” Play was one of the most important part of his philosophy. LeCoq had a background in physiotherapy, which could of quite possibly sparked his interest in the body, His philosophy focused more on the movement of the body than the actual written script

“I was a Dancer” is a rich, expansive, spirited memoire on the Jacques d’Amboise life. It all started when he was 8 years old at the school of American ballet. At twelve he was asked to be a dancer and perform with Ballet Society. Three years later he joined the New York City ballet and made his European debut at London’s Covent Garden’s. Before all this he writes about his childhood, he was born Joseph Ahearn in 1934 in Dedham Massachusetts. His mother considered as the boss, she moves her family to New York City’s Washington Heights, Making her son and daughter enter Ballet classes, she was able to pay those classes by making hates and selling them in the streets corner, she also changed their last names to her middle name, she believed

The vision was to have a colony on the Mississippi River that was a gateway to open and expand trade with the new world. On May 7, 1718, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville and the French Mississippi Company officially founded Nouvelle-Orleans. Bienville would later become governor of the Louisiana colony three different times between the years 1702 and 1743. The city was named after Duke Philippe d'Orléans, who was France's head of state at the time (Briney).

Rene Caisse (pronounced "reen case") was a Canadian nurse that discovered a natural herbal formula, but did not take any money for her discovery. The herb she promoted is called Essiac. which is her last name backwards. She made a tea from the Essiac. Essiac is made of four main herbs that grow in the wilderness of Ontario, Canada. The original formula is believed to have its roots from the native Canadian Ojibway Indians.

Evidence was hard to come by when you are researching a sixth century crime, but the evidence that Robert Finlay and Natalie Z. Davis found in each of their respective sides, were very compelling. Are you going to believe Finlay, who said that Arnaud duped Bertrande, or Davis, who said Bertrande was in on the “invented marriage.” I believe that Arnaud and Bertrande were in on the “invented marriage” because he wanted a better life and she was neither a wife nor a widow and needed a husband for self-gain.

Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother was a Puerto Rican, and his father was a Haitian immigrant, the combination of both eventually led Jean-Michel's into learning creole, Spanish, and English. At an early age, Jean-Michel decided he wanted to be a cartoonist and so his mother took him to a art museums in order to stimulate his imagination. He showed a precocious talent for drawing, and his mother enrolled him as a Junior Member of the Brooklyn Museum when he was six. At the age of eight, he was extremely injured in a car accident and was hospitalized for a month. He broke his arm, suffered multiple internal injuries and underwent a splenectomy. His mother brought him a copy of his Grey’s

What would it be like to be a member of one of the world's greatest journeys? Though he was just a baby, this was what happened to Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. He was an unintentional addition to Lewis and Clark's expedition to the Pacific ("Sacagawea"). However, the stories of this child do not end with Lewis and Clark's return to St. Louis.

According to the website Biography, “Mexican-born dancer and choreographer José Limón is recognized as an important figure in the American modern dance movement of the 1930s-1960s” (Biography). Jose Limon is one of the Ballet dancer sand choreographers in the 1930s. Even though he is considered to be a Ballet dancer, Limon is well-known for performing and choreographing a great amount of Modern Dance piece. Jose Limon is significant to me because he is the first Modern Dance choreographer I know, and his representative work “the Moor’s Pavane” impressed me the most due to the plots and the expressive movements in this piece. After watching the video “the Moor’s Pavane,” it raised my interest on Jose Limon; it also motivated me to do a deeper research on the information about Modern Dance. Jose Limon, one of the pioneers of Modern Dance, his Limon Technique has brought a significant contribution to the field of Modern Dance in the 20th century.

The father of photography, real name Louis Daguerre, was born on November 18, 1787 in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France. He grew up amongst a middle class family, although he did not receive a very consistent education due to political issues for the duration of the Revolution. One thing that Louis did show a genuine spark in, was drawing and painting. So much, that at thirteen years old, he shadowed an architect. However, his architectural career came to a close as Daguerre moved to Paris in 1804 and began involving himself in local theatre, opera, and church activities. By early 1820s, Daguerre had demonstrated unique creativity by working with a collaborator to assist him in the creation of an illusions theatre which he named a diorama. His

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Henri Becquerel was a Physicist, while doing some research, he found radioactivity. Henri was born in Paris in 1853, he was born into a family of scientists. Alexander Becquerel, Aurelie Quenard, and Antoine Céasar were his family. His father and grandfather were scientists as well. His father was an expert on solar radiation and his grandfather had invented an electrolytic method for extracting metals from their ores. He learned about physics and chemistry through his university and joined the government department in 1874.

At the turn of the century Paris was one of the capitals of culture and art to the outside world. However, the truth of the matter was that this taboo-ridden society was being run by an aristocracy that was repressing the arts. Naturally, when World War 1 broke out, the suppressed French society finally had a release and a rebellion against order arose. WWI specifically affected the theatre of French and it’s aftermath. From the ashes of war the avant-garde theatre grew and styles such as Dadaism and Surrealism were born. It was both the climate of culture before the war and the devastation of the war that lead to the outbreak of avant-garde theatre in France.