William Forsythe's Choreography And Dance

Dance began as a form of communication and storytelling. Thousands of years ago dancing served as a way for people to tell a story and helped distract themselves of the hardships they faced. Furthermore, dance was a form of storytelling through communication, which then turned into using storytelling through dance as entertainment. According to the History World, many dancers during the BC time danced in front of only a few people to get a story across. That later turned into hundreds of thousands of people as dance was used by many. Today, dance is also a form of entertainment and storytelling, but in a modern sense. However, today perfection and technique are stressed more than they were in the past. Yet, the passion for dance has not changed. Many dancers who share this passion also have many of the same qualities. Among a discourse community of trained dancers, one expects to find individuals who are healthy and active athletes, expect perfection from themselves through competition, and religiously attend dance performances.

Dance is a unique sport because it combines the grit and sweat of sporting events, such as track and field, with the style and extravagance of a fashion show (D.Fowler, 2000).

Jane Desmond introduces her article, “Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies,” by describing a dance that readers can picture as the dance of tango in their minds. This helps lead to her connecting dance, or body movement, with cultural studies and social identities. In her article, Desmond focuses on connecting how dance and body movement can be portrayed differently in social identities, such as race, class, gender, nationality, and sexuality.

important foundation in understanding the broader scope of how dance can be seen as a

One of the most egregious communication theories displayed heavily throughout the film is the idea of symbolic convergence. The very root of this theory rests on the idea that humans connect with one another through shared meaning of an event, object, or otherwise stated “thing”. There are countless displays of this theory throughout the film, both for the characters in the movie and the viewers on the outside alike. For the characters within the movie, symbolic convergence happens when they are dancing. Even though these

Dance is explored in a sacred way on the pages of Winton-Henry’s book. This essay identifies the author’s intent for the work as well as summarizes the key points made about the role dance serves in our lives and how to incorporate

Dance is one of the most beautiful, expressive forms of art known to mankind. It expresses joy, love, sorrow, anger, and the list truly goes on for all the possible emotions that it can convey. Dance not only can express how one feels, but it can tell a story or even be used to praise a higher power. Dance has intricately played an important role to every culture over the course of time. Two forms of dance that have not only stood against the test of time but have influenced the development of other various styles of dance is none other than Classical Ballet and Modern Dance.

Banes introduces her topic by addressing the Judson Dance Company’s main values and goals. She points out that their main goal was to challenge the strict form of ballet as well as American modern dance. The Judson Dance Theater focused on new instead of old and creativity instead of experience. Another main goal was to explore every possible choreographic method or process to the best of their ability. They desired to emphasize the choreographic process as a time of great creative opportunity, and that it was not just the tedious, time-consuming work that comes before what many view as the more important aspect of rehearsing and performing a piece. Banes goes on to give different recounts from previous students including Trisha Brown and Robert Dunn. After reading the article, the main point seems to be introducing the reader to the Judson Dance Theater and investigating their influence on the dance world.

Their dancers connect with the dance tradition embodying feelings of existential human anguish and references to specific geographic places, dancing focused on surreal situations, body use and the relationships between stage and

Artists today seem more attached to form than perhaps ever before—wedded to concept, abstraction, gymnastic moves and external appearance” (Robb, Paragraph 4). Dance, for many, is starting to become more and more about technique. With that, dance is going to start (and according to Jennifer, has started) to become more about the hard work, and less about the feeling, leading to a higher amount of workout in every practice. During one practice, not including the actual dancing, a ballerina must warm up with a six minute plank, three hundred sit ups, fifty burpees, running laps, and that’s not even all of it.

Dance is still a means of representing and expressing particular emotions or experienes; however, I might add that its applications extend beyond entertainment and can serve a more rigorous agenda.

Dancing is a form of visual expression through creative body and space movements as old as the ancient Romans. While it may seem easy to dance, it takes real effort to learn to perform a dance, and its success depends on the use of the five elements of dance. In viewing two dances from the TV series “So you Think you Can Dance”, I got a perspective of how judges would critique dances based on how their use of elements correlated with the type of dance style. I discovered that although I enjoy the open style of jazz dances, Sabra and Neil’s dance to “Sweet Dreams” left me some negative impressions on jazz dances. Instead, Neil and Kent’s dance to “How it Ends” impressed me with how the elements were used to change the face of contemporary art

This book is about how one dance comes together, from beginning to end, from choreography to opening night. The author offers paintings and thoughtful placement of words regarding his observations of dancers as they perfect their moves. The book ends with the curtain going up during a performance. This book is ideal for anyone who wants a preview of what goes on behind the scenes of dancing.

Mime should be used only when the ballet’s style dictates it, in other cases the dancer’s whole body, not only the hands, should be used to communicate.

The dancing industry continues to enculture the society and environment surrounding it, which is why many dancers combat with the excessive amounts of pressure placed on them to ‘be the best.’ Since I have been exposed to the micro, meso and macro levels of the dance industry through personal experience and forms of media, I decided that the basis for the chapters of my PIP would be formed around three specific aspects of the dance world from where dancers fashion their own morals, beliefs and values. These being how body image affects a dancer, how the sexualisation of young female dancers is becoming part of the social norm, and how social and environmental factors play a significant role in influencing a dancer. Once I had constructed what my chapters were going to be centrally focused on, I was motivated and engaged with my work and looked forward to utilising the research methodologies I had learnt in