the Russo-American Era, Russian choreographers, such as, Michel Fokine, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Léonide Massine, and Bronislava Nijinska; benefited from the American audience and started to make dramatic changes to the classical ballet. Every single one of these choreographers implemented and transformed the way people view, danced and perceived ballet in the early 20th century. Several ideas for these innovations were from Michel Fokine. In 1914, he wrote a letter to the London Times, stating
the Russo-American Era, the Russian choreographers, such as, Michel Fokine, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijisky, Léonide Massine, Sergei Diaghilev, and Bronislava Nijinska; they benefited from its American audience and started to make dramatic changes to the classical ballet. Every single one of these choreographers implemented and transformed the way people view, danced and perceived ballet in the 20th century. An example of this is Michel Fokine, when in 1914 wrote a letter to the London Times, stating the
Russo-American Era, the Russian choreographers, such as, Michel Fokine, Anna Pavlova, Vaslav Nijinsky, Léonide Massine, and Bronislava Nijinska; they benefited from its American audience and started to make dramatic changes to the classical ballet. Every single one of these choreographers implemented and transformed the way people view, danced and perceived ballet in the early 20th century. Several ideas for these innovations were from Michel Fokine, when in 1914 wrote a letter to the London Times, stating
Bloody Sunday in 1905, wherein governmental troops opened fire on peacefully petitioning peasants and workers, the Russian tsar released his October Manifesto in an attempt to achieve compromise within society. Out of dispute, dancers such as Mikhail Fokine, Anna Pavlova, and Vaslav Nijinsky arranged secret meetings and protests with the help of students at the Theater School. Yearning for a greater input regarding the “future of their art” after years of discouragement by “Imperial mismanagement,” such
]When I was in the second grade my school bus broke down on the way home and we had to call for a bus from the middle school to finish dropping us off. I sat huddled in the torn green back seats with five boys from my class listening intently as a sixth grader explained to us some of the games the middle schoolers played at recess. “It’s called FMK. Fuck, Marry, Kill. You have to choose which person you would fuck, marry, or kill.” Some of the boys giggled but some stayed quiet, not understanding
The Work of Representation Stuart Hall Summarize by Jesse Tseng 1 Representation, meaning and language At first we have to know that： Representation is an essential part of the process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture. It does involve the use of language, of signs and images which stand for or represent things. And surly it is not a simple or straightforward process. How this article exploring the concept of representation connect meaning and language to
Risk and governmentality Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, introduced the term governmentality in his lectures at Collège de France in the late1970s and early 1980s; so roughly between 1977 and 1984. The term governmentality refers to both the way in which a state governs the body of its population and to the way in which people are taught to govern themselves. In this paper I will explain what a ‘governmentality’ approach to risk means and what the implications of this approach are. Foucault
The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries experienced a surge of social reform movements linked to the Enlightenment, which transformed society into the modern culture seen today. Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish examines how punishment was viewed and enacted prior to the “humane” awakening of the eighteenth century, while establishing the progression of change that shifted punishment from the body to the soul. Foucault was a student and professor of philosophy and psychology during the twentieth
For a Philosophy of the Impersonal 1. Never more than today is the notion of person the unavoidable reference for all discourses, be they philosophical, political, or juridical in nature, that assert the value of human life as such. Leaving aside differences in ideology as well as specifically staked-out theoretical positions, no one doubts the relevance of the category of person or challenges it as the unexamined and incontrovertible presupposition of every possible perspective. This tacit convergence
There are a number of continuities of themes and interests in Foucault’s work. There is also evidence of shifts of emphasis, changes of direction, developments and reformations, which have led to a number of critiques of Foucault’s work to talk about breaks, differences and discontinuities within his work. One moment least a shift of emphasis does appear to be present is in the writings which emerged after the Archaeology of Knowledge and after the brief cultural and political event known as May