William Forsythe's Choreography And Dance

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 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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Upon the creation of life, it is important for the creator to know the purpose of his creation and to be

Mary Wigman rejected ballet technique in her dance style, perceiving classical ballet technique as artificial and confining. Wigman believed that the emphasis should be on the transcendent nature and spiritual purpose of the dance, while embodying essentialism (pg. 6, Newhall). She knew she was not the best dancer in the room, but she knew how to be in touch with her emotions while dancing. She drew upon sources from what was going on in the world during the early 1900’s from war to the rebellion against the authoritarian tradition of the church, monarchy, and feudalism (pg. 73, Newhall). Wigman freed dance from its slave like overtone with music and reestablished its independence of an absolute language (pg. 7, Newhall). Wigman choose to look within and present the mind, spirit, and imagination to the audience through essentialism (16).

​Choreographing isn’t like most passions. It gives complete artistic freedom to mold thoughts into existence. It gives me joy, challenge and influence. Evidently, dancing is what led me to finding my love for choreography. I’ve been a dancer for fourteen years of my life and now I want to lead the future dance industry in to new places. I want to make dance available for all people. Dance is very subjective so non-dancers become intimidated by the uncertainty on whether their opinions are valid, because they haven’t been exposed to dance since pre-school like many dancers. Overall, I want to make the future of dance

Save The Last Dance and How She Move are two dance drama films. The two films depict shared dreams and the trials which follow it, using dance and its genres as an outlet for expression and a channel to redemption. The films also use dance to unfold subtle themes of gender role stereotypes and gender inequalities which are present within society. Specifically, gender roles are portrayed in Save The Last Dance and How She Move within social norms and the affects it plays on the dancing bodies, the dance styles of ballet, hip-hop and step dancing as well as within the narrative. These gender roles in which females and males are expected to display have long been prescribed, often to fit the needs of society. This essay will discuss and analyze

The spirit spoke not through words but through the language of dance, referring to moral and social doctrines of beauty, serenity, dignity, control, order, and balance. Dance movements exaggerate the powers of ordinary women and dramatized the ideals of feminine beauty. It was extremely

All the movements scream a message of how society imposes social and domestic activities on women. They must always work efficiently but still be an object of beauty, always perfect (shown through certain movements) but the viewers can see the strain and damage on the women when they collapse or make exhausting sounds. As we learned previously, dance can be used to express emotions that can impact a message positively or negatively. All movements have a purpose and choreographers can evoke response from the viewers as to why the dancer dances in an open space or mirrors the movements of another dancer on stage or uses props in a performance. Germaine Acogny’s famous work, Waxtaan depicted African politics through different elements and the relationships of the dancers through space and time on the stage. Waxtaan means “argument,” and the dancers gave the impression of talking through the body. The dancers created their own music with claps, footfalls and body percussion. The dancers mimic the heads of state, the ministers, the politicians, the men in

“Movements are as eloquent as words.” (Duncan, 440) Mid nineteenth centuries was a period of rigid and standardized ballet which tortured and restrained their body and mind. Against that society's convention, there was a woman who tried to communicate with people through her dance. She, Isadora Duncan, was a pioneer of the modern dance, and her dance embraced her sophisticated ideals. Even though the public remember her only with the complicated and scandalous rumors about her lovers and dramatic death by scarf, Isadora Duncan’s new style of dance which led a new paradigm reflected freedom–not only for herself but also for the society. Purely, she extricated people to the freedom by directly expressing her soul by her movements.