Martha Ballard

school student. For college, Tharp attended Pamona College in California. She then transferred to Barnard College in New York City. She graduated from there in 1963 with a degree in art history. While in New York she studied under Richard Thomas, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham. In 1966, she formed her own company, Twyla Tharp Dance. In that company, she traveled around the world performing original works. Tharp has choreographed more than one hundred sixty works: one hundred twenty-nine dances

Trisha Brown was born in Aberdeen, Washington on November 25th, 1936 and received her B.A. degree in dance from Mills College in 1958. She later received a D.F.A. from Bates College in 2000. For many summers, she studied with Louis Horst at the American Dance Festival, which was then held at Connecticut College. Trisha moved to New York City to study composition with Robert Dunn, who had taught a class at Merce Cunningham’s studio. This studio was based on John Cage’s theories of chance. Brown rejected

Considered one of the world’s most outstanding contemporary choreographers, Naharin focused mainly on music, and painting, until the age of 22. At 22, Naharin started dancing at the Batsheva Dance Company, during which he was approached and invited by Martha Graham to come to America, where he would go on to study at Juilliard and the School of American Ballet. In the year 1990, Ohad was appointed the artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, where his style started to develop, focusing on a set

profound choreographers of the 20th century Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey forever changed the history and future of American Modern Dance. Both choreographers have such inspirational backgrounds that enhance the emotions throughout their pieces. In the peak of their careers, they fulfilled their accomplishments and goals. Being that they were both American choreographers, their work was different for the most part but was similar at some point. Martha Graham created a movement language based upon

When it comes to contextual analysis and dance history, we can see how dance connects emotions, stories, and new movement creations together. I feel that these aspects are a key concept to understand within this course. This is needed in order to understand how dance is performed and connected. For example, when we view a dance, we can see how the dancers body language emphasize the movements being shown. Also, we can see elements from other dance forms  within other styles of dance. For example

As an American dancer, choreographer, theatre producer, director, and writer, Jerome Robbins changed the face of dance throughout the twentieth century. Today his contributions are still celebrated and even practiced within dance studios throughout the world. Being one of the most imaginative and influential creators of dance, Robbins had a wide range of works. His projects encompassed everything from classical ballet, film, musical theatre and television, all of which he devoted his heart and soul

Merce Cunningham followed the unique body movements and the use of contracting and releasing, as well as the acceptance of gravity, that Martha Graham employs in her choreography. He also infuses the technical aspects of ballet into his dance, Cunningham has, however, developed his own, unique way to choreograph; a technique in which he believes that dance should be created. Cunningham’s technique is rather unorthodox, as he believes that the music should not dictate the dance, and throws all notions

Isadora Duncan became known as the pioneer of modern dance all because she despised ballet and yearned to move freely. She longed to move like the ocean, swaying and crashing however she wanted. With this in mind, she set out to create her own form of dance in which she would enjoy doing as well as teaching. There were social, economic, and cultural influences on Isadora Duncan which affected her lifetime achievements. In order to spread her passion for dancing, she teamed with Gordon Craig and

For seventy years Merce Cunningham lead an innovative career that expanded the worlds of dance, visual, and performing arts. With the use of chance procedures in his choreography, and the idea to separate music and dance, Cunningham created a unique repertoire of work for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. I will be arguing that through the evaluation and analysis of Merce Cunningham’s choreography, he developed an innovative technique based off of the forms and structures of classical ballet. Additionally

America grew up with dance, from the streets to the theatres in Broadway it has formed many different dance such as modern dance. Modern dance was born in the United States in the 20th century. Its recognitions prevailed when several dancers rebelled to two dances that were extensive at the moment, ballet and vaudeville. Its fundamental aim was to reveal about people. “Modern” referred to a new era of dance and much modernize dance techniques that aimed to recoup natural movement. Having outlined