Modern Dance questions well
answered graded A+
What is modern dance? - correct answer ✔✔ Relatively new, revolt against the restrictions of
ballet, eclectic type of technique
Differences to ballet - correct answer ✔✔ usually barefoot, more grounded, lower enter of
gravity, free flowing costumes, more movement of the torso, more freedom of movement,
subject matter more dramatic/realistic
Loie Fuller - correct answer ✔✔ American Dancer; developed many lighting techniques, dancing
with costumes that made dancers not look human. Pioneer in mixed media, illusions made
toward nature, Serpentine dance: extension or arms makes costume even bigger, heeled shoes
Isadora Duncan - correct answer ✔✔ Mother of Modern Dance; natural dancer who rejected
ballet, believed that movements should be drawn from nature, developed the Duncan
Technique, shocked audiences, movement looked unrehearsed, she would react to the
audience.
Duncan Technique - correct answer ✔✔ comprised of basic movements such as swinging,
jumping, hopping, running. One of the first to dance barefoot
Children died - correct answer ✔✔ Isadora Duncan
Denis-Shawn Choreography - correct answer ✔✔ Inspired by different cultures-particularly
Asian countries. First inspired by a cigarette poster, ethnicity and religious expression, ted
Made Dance a more acceptable career for men - correct answer ✔✔ Ted Shawn
, Why was Denisshawn an important institution? - correct answer ✔✔ Left a legacy- trained the
next generation of modern dance choreographers- Graham, Humphrey, and Wiedman
Rudolph Von Laban- Labanotation - correct answer ✔✔ "Father of German modern dance" best
known for developing a system of notating dance and space still used today to record and
reconstruct dances
Mary Wigman - correct answer ✔✔ German choreographer and dancer; works are
expressionistic, presented dances whose movements were full of meaning and emotion one of
the first modern choreographers to use musical scores consisting of mostly of percussion
intruments as well as silence, student of Laban, different spatial concepts
Hanya Holm - correct answer ✔✔ A student of Mary Wigman, came to the US to establish a
Wigman school; she had a company and became a master teacher using the theories of
Wigman as well as her own. One of the first modern dance choreographers to choreograph
musicals on broadway
My Fair Lady - correct answer ✔✔ Hanya Holm
John Martin - correct answer ✔✔ Dance critic, America's first major dance critic, propelled
modern dance movement, influenced career of Martha Graham
Doris Humphrey Choreographic Interests - correct answer ✔✔ Wrote and published a book on
choreography very specific structure, graduate of DennisShawn wanted more serious work, fall
and recovery method interaction with gravity, musical visualizations-tried to represent music
abstract but also work to silence. Group dynamics-highlighted group instead of soloist
Music Visualizations - correct answer ✔✔ Music visualizations are a way to see the music
through dance, the dancers follow specific instruments or rhythmic patterns.
answered graded A+
What is modern dance? - correct answer ✔✔ Relatively new, revolt against the restrictions of
ballet, eclectic type of technique
Differences to ballet - correct answer ✔✔ usually barefoot, more grounded, lower enter of
gravity, free flowing costumes, more movement of the torso, more freedom of movement,
subject matter more dramatic/realistic
Loie Fuller - correct answer ✔✔ American Dancer; developed many lighting techniques, dancing
with costumes that made dancers not look human. Pioneer in mixed media, illusions made
toward nature, Serpentine dance: extension or arms makes costume even bigger, heeled shoes
Isadora Duncan - correct answer ✔✔ Mother of Modern Dance; natural dancer who rejected
ballet, believed that movements should be drawn from nature, developed the Duncan
Technique, shocked audiences, movement looked unrehearsed, she would react to the
audience.
Duncan Technique - correct answer ✔✔ comprised of basic movements such as swinging,
jumping, hopping, running. One of the first to dance barefoot
Children died - correct answer ✔✔ Isadora Duncan
Denis-Shawn Choreography - correct answer ✔✔ Inspired by different cultures-particularly
Asian countries. First inspired by a cigarette poster, ethnicity and religious expression, ted
Made Dance a more acceptable career for men - correct answer ✔✔ Ted Shawn
, Why was Denisshawn an important institution? - correct answer ✔✔ Left a legacy- trained the
next generation of modern dance choreographers- Graham, Humphrey, and Wiedman
Rudolph Von Laban- Labanotation - correct answer ✔✔ "Father of German modern dance" best
known for developing a system of notating dance and space still used today to record and
reconstruct dances
Mary Wigman - correct answer ✔✔ German choreographer and dancer; works are
expressionistic, presented dances whose movements were full of meaning and emotion one of
the first modern choreographers to use musical scores consisting of mostly of percussion
intruments as well as silence, student of Laban, different spatial concepts
Hanya Holm - correct answer ✔✔ A student of Mary Wigman, came to the US to establish a
Wigman school; she had a company and became a master teacher using the theories of
Wigman as well as her own. One of the first modern dance choreographers to choreograph
musicals on broadway
My Fair Lady - correct answer ✔✔ Hanya Holm
John Martin - correct answer ✔✔ Dance critic, America's first major dance critic, propelled
modern dance movement, influenced career of Martha Graham
Doris Humphrey Choreographic Interests - correct answer ✔✔ Wrote and published a book on
choreography very specific structure, graduate of DennisShawn wanted more serious work, fall
and recovery method interaction with gravity, musical visualizations-tried to represent music
abstract but also work to silence. Group dynamics-highlighted group instead of soloist
Music Visualizations - correct answer ✔✔ Music visualizations are a way to see the music
through dance, the dancers follow specific instruments or rhythmic patterns.
