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Modern Dance Terminology: The ABC's of Modern Dance as Defined by Its Originators
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January 17, 2021
A quick jaunt through the foundation of modern dance. This book is a nice little piece of history outlining the early codification of modern dance as a means to properly stake its claim alongside ballet. I find it exciting to compare how the predictions from 1953 match up to current day modern dance (Modern modern dance).
It contains ideas inasmuch: American V.S German style modern dance, Music Visualization, early concepts of pantomime/pedestrian style movement, Tension-Release, Rudolf Van Laban (1/4th of the book talks about him and his notation, ironically the most outdated of all of the information in the book), and most importantly founding choreographers of modern dance.
This is the kind of book that begs for a modern day revision that expands on the historical significance of each term along with those who coined them.
At the very core of this book is how philosophy leads one to understand both the why and how we dance.
It contains ideas inasmuch: American V.S German style modern dance, Music Visualization, early concepts of pantomime/pedestrian style movement, Tension-Release, Rudolf Van Laban (1/4th of the book talks about him and his notation, ironically the most outdated of all of the information in the book), and most importantly founding choreographers of modern dance.
This is the kind of book that begs for a modern day revision that expands on the historical significance of each term along with those who coined them.
At the very core of this book is how philosophy leads one to understand both the why and how we dance.
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