Martha Ballard

On April, 2 1939 Alberta and Marvin Gay Sir gave birth to the famous R&B artist Marvin Gaye in Washington DC. He had two sisters and three brothers all lived with him. Marvin Gaye started singing at his father’s church when he was only four years old. When Gaye realized he could sing he fell in love with it and wanted to make music a career for him. The only down fall Marvin had was the brutal beating he had to take from his father and his mother would just watch he was to the point he wanted to

Countless artists have created works that integrate themes of historical events. Martha Graham, also known as the Mother of Modern Dance, has produced several renowned pieces with this. I believe that her piece, Panorama, is a great example of a piece that uses history that is timeless. The dance was choreographed in 1935 for students at Bennington College in Vermont during their summer dance workshops. These workshops contained unique American modern dancers and choreographers that shared their

Before Cunningham was invited to join the Martha Graham Company in 1939, he had already established himself as a gifted dancer and choreographer at Cornish School of Fine Arts in Seattle America. The school witnessed the first three works created by Cunningham Unbalanced March (1938), Jazz Epigram (1938) and Skinny Structures (1939). Unbalanced March signified the dawning of Cunningham and Cage due to Cage being the class accompanist (Dance Detail – Merce Cunningham Trust, 2017). He spent several

This essay is conceived with the purpose of demonstrating personal understanding of liberal education as a result of assessing historic theory of Aristotle and comparing the contemporary theories of Charles Bailey and Martha Nussbaum. In addition, the applicable situations of liberal education and its governing principles will be discussed. Specifically, given the inevitable engagement of compulsory education, which is inherently authoritarian, some aspects of liberal education are limited, and full

Katherine Dunham, an African American dancer from Chicago Illinois had a very successful dance career in American and European theatre in the 20th century. Dunham was a choreographer as well as a dancer. She directed her own dance company for many years before she died May 2006. Dunham was known as the “matriarch and queen mother of black dance” meaning that she was the “head” or “leader” of black dance. Her works and pieces all showed similarity and differences throughout the time in which they

Inspired by personal experience as a ballet dancer and researcher (Dornelles de Almeida; Flores-Pereira, 2013) I plan to conduct a qualitative study through a bodily-centred (Crossley, 1995) ethnography at professional ballet companies, as well as with independent professional ballet dancers in London. Ethnography offers the opportunity to understand cultural differences and “reveals what people think and show us the cultural meanings they use daily” (Spradley, 1980, p.vii).The ethnographer's goal

Sidi Laribi Cherkaoui’s piece Mosaic, danced by the Martha Graham Dance Company, opened. Mosaic was a mysterious, suspenseful and provocative work that embodied many ritual and mystical traditions from Middle Eastern culture. However, the tone of the piece was not created by the music and choreography alone, much of the overall environment was created by the technical aspects of the performance. Compared to the other pieces performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company at this show,

elissa Moynihan 12/4/14 Research Paper Dancing Through the Ages Jarod Kintz an author known for his sense of humor is quoted as saying: “Dance like there’s nobody watching. Or filming. Never mind that creepy guy in the corner with the camcorder. Just keep dancing” (Kintz, 2011). Dancing has been a great way to show exactly how a culture develops over time. Regardless of the medium used to show dancing, it is an art form that is known to catch everyone’s attention. Movies with dancing were used

Isadora Duncan and Mary Wigman both started with the same idea of dancing, and how they should incorporate human movement instead of ballet that was more unnatural to the body. Even though they had a similar thought about modern dance, they had one thing that made them very different, which was their choreography. Duncan pieces were lively and upbeat, and Wigmans were dark and mysterious. They both approached modern dance through a different eye. Even if they lived in two different parts of the world

Everyone knows ballet has been around for many years, but not everyone knows that people rebelled against ballets structure. Ballet is a very strict type of dance unlike modern which is more free. The strictness of ballet is very different from modern because ballet watches your every move like a hawk. It needs to be straight and precise, but in modern, there is no strictness to it. The moves come naturally to you as well as they can be whatever you want them to be. Most of them are just made up