Title:
1Classical Dance Theater by Gerald Jonas
Dancing The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement
- Presentation by
- Francesca San Roman and Andrew Giles and Edited
By Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart
2Ballet
- The royal courts that nurtured ballet are either
gone or stripped of their political power, but
the courtly ideal of making the most difficult
feats of prowess look easy has become an integral
part of the ballet aesthetic(130).
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3Ballet Class
- How does class begin?
- The first exercise is the ___
- After finishing at the barre, dancers move to
the center of the room when they perform similar
exercises without support(130).
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4George Balanchine
- As ballet master of the New York City Ballet,he
taught the ninety-minute company class every
morning. - The classroom was his laboratory, the trained
bodies of the dancers his tools.(130) - His choreography was called ___________.
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5Kabuki
- Japans kabuki theater achieved classical status
by a diametrically opposite route from that of
ballet. - The word kabuki originally meant
__________________________________________________
_____________.
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6Kabuki Performers
- In the all-male world of kabuki the icons of
femininity are _______(136). - The Japanese word for a kabuki performer who
specializes in female roles is __________, or
woman person. - The performers must not only move like a woman on
stage, but think ___________.
7Continuing the Kabuki Tradition
- Who trains the young performers?
- How old does training start?
- When are outsiders adopted into the family?
8Women and Kabuki
- Women have performed kabuki outside the classical
venues - Women appear as actors and dancers on the modern
Japanese stage. - Okuni
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9The Social Structure of Japan in the 17th Century
10Performances
- Kabuki performances started early in the ________
and lasted ________. - Staging was an amalgam of ______ effects and
________ conventions(142). -
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11The Theater
- Who attended the theater?
- What was the set up for the stage?
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12Dance in Ballrooms
- What was the clothing like for Ballroom dancers
and ballet dancers?
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vol9/hanson.html
13Ballet Evolves
- Marie Camargo
- Marie Sallé
- Jean Georges Noverre
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14- St. Petersburg
- La belle au Bois Dormant ( The Sleeping Beauty)
- Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
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15Conclusion
- Ballet has survived the French and the Russian
Revolution. - Only time will tell if kabuki can find new
audiences beyond its homeland. - Both ballet and kabuki converge on their emphasis
on charismatic performers.
16Works Cited
- Jonas, Gerald.Dancing The Pleasure, Power, and
Art of Movement. Classical Dance Theater.New
YorkHarry N. Abrams. 1992, 128-163. - old.nssnt.org/ SpaceBallet.htm
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