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    my journey the most are the blending of culturally or historically significant forms of dance with modern dance, and the resurgence of expressionism. Dance has been evolving for thousands of years, spanning many different cultures in different geographical locations. Many regions have rich histories of dance, like samba in Brazil, waltz in Austria, ballet in Russia, and kabuki in Japan. When modern dance first revolutionized the dance world in the 1800s, it starkly contrasted many forms of dance

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    Bella Lewitzky, in her time, was considered a world-renowned modern dance instructor. Her astounding technique, to engage the core, is still used world wide today. Born in the utopian socialist community of Llano del Rio in the Mojave Desert, her family settled in San Bernardino when she was a child. Dance was of a great interest to Lewitzky; she grew to love the art of dance and attended classes taught by Lester Horton during the 1930’s. Soon after beginning dance with Lester, Bella “established

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    institutions that have helped shaped our modern world. The three factors that conceptualized shaped our modern world are religion, money, and empire. These three things have shaped our world modern world in different ways such as; religion influencing our laws and people’s perspective of how to live with different cultures. Money has had positive and negative effects on creating our modern world. As for empire it created a foundation of what we call today our modern day government. Even though these few

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    formalism. Post-modernism is typically categorized by everyday movements. It is said by some that one does not even need be a dancer in order to do this style of choreography. It is similar to contemporary dance which is a combination of modern and post-modern dancing. Expressionism is basic movement with the intent of expressing an emotion or feeling behind it. Expressionism originated in Germany and can be easily identified when associated with “story-telling” or the conveyance of an emotion.

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    and choreographer José Limón is recognized as an important figure in the American modern dance movement of the 1930s-1960s” (Biography). Jose Limon is one of the Ballet dancer sand choreographers in the 1930s. Even though he is considered to be a Ballet dancer, Limon is well-known for performing and choreographing a great amount of Modern Dance piece. Jose Limon is significant to me because he is the first Modern Dance choreographer I know, and his representative work “the Moor’s Pavane” impressed

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    Art by Yasmin Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by Luke Sutherland was performed at the Warwick Campus on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 pm. Art is about the ambiguity of modern art. The play Art raises many unsolved questions how it’s viewed and treated in modern time. Art can hold many meanings. You may think it's art while other people would probably think it's garbage. Art is set in Paris in the mid-1990’s

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    constantly changing, plus it choses different styles and eras. On the other hand, Modern Architecture has defined its style. It describes a specific era design, that it leads to the history of machination and to the 1920s – 1950s styles. Many people mistaken in defining modern architecture and contemporary architecture, say that both of them are completely the same. This research paper will show you the comparison between both modern and contemporary architecture, talking about both characteristics, methods

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    The year was 1790 when outside vendors copied and sold maps and publications without consent of the original owners. The government set a law into place to put a copyright, “the exclusive right to make copies, license, and otherwise exploit a literary, musical, or artistic work, whether printed, audio, video, etc” (1) , on items and ideas of their choosing preventing such from being stolen or transformed for 14 years. Within fifty years, technology changed allowing more people understood what a copyright

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    The American dancer and choreographer Doris Humphrey played one of the pivotal roles in the development of the modern dancing. Humphrey with her deep contemplation of the possibilities of human body movement and its unique expression invented the new vocabulary of dance movement, built on the principles of the equilibrium and graceful gravity fall and recovery technique. The legendary dancer based her choreography on the constant search of the body equilibrium nuances and its principles. Using these

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    Martha Graham Martha Graham was one of the most influential figures in American modern dance, and her techniques and styles are still practiced today. She became widely known throughout all ages and decades. Her first debut was in the 1920's. As time went on, she became more experienced and wiser in the modern dance field. Martha Graham, whose style was considered controversial, became one of the finest choreographers and dancers in the dance world. In 1894 Martha was born in Allegheny

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