Reflections on Dance and Dancing By: Selma Jeanne Cohen

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Reflections on Dance and Dancing By Selma
Jeanne CohenClassic and Romantic Ballet By
Lincoln Kirstein

• Presented By
• Natalie Bourcier
• Andrew Elder and Edited By Laura Pratt and Dr.
  Picart

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Classic Ballet

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Five Positions of Classic Ballet
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Romantic Ballet

• What is Romantic ballet?

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Key Points for Being Romantic

• Did not forswear reality but ____________,________
  _, and __________.
• it is _______ without _______,
  ________and ________.
• A localized theatrical echo of a transient
  literary and artistic movement
• The appearance of program music
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• Bring flowers

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Styles of Dance
Broadway-Musical-Type

• Modern

• Ballet

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Ballet Outwardness

• outwardness is derived by the ________ of the
  legs in the hip socket, opened by the erect
  ______, the lifted _____ and the raise of the
  ____on a vertical, long, relaxed spine
• in everyday life, _________ is impractical due to
  its consumption of space
• outwardness characterizes Indias Bharata Natya
  where the legs are also turned out but the dancer
  is now grounded, weighted

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Components of Classical Dance

• ___________
• ___________
• ___________
• ___________
• ___________
• All of which embody a dancer with grace,
  effortless and flowing

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Modern Dance

• founded at the end of World War I in a spirit of
  revolt, made the individual the ______ the
  materializing of inner experience (Martin 246)

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Components of Modern Dance

• _______ rather than lightness
• ___________ rather than flow
• ___________ rather than balanced design
• __________rather than concealment of process

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Modern BalletEvolutionized with modern dance
producing a style which displays
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_______.
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Problems

• The lithe bodies of todays dancers fail to
  attack their movements with sufficient force,
  with sufficient weight, for the style of early
  modern dance works.
• Is this True?

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A new dance form?

• think of Cunningham light but unballetic
• Cunninghams dancers are precise, skilled and
  impersonal
• His choreography links smooth movements to
  heterogeneous movements by a violence or a
  discursive flow

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Bibliography

• Cohen, Selma Jeanne. Next Week Swan Lake
  Reflections on Dance and Dances, Problems of
  Definition. What is Dance? Roger Copeland and
  Marshall Cohen, eds. Oxford University Press,
  1983, pp. 339-354.
• Kirstein, Lincoln. Ballet Alphabet Classic and
  Romantic Ballet. What is Dance? Roger Copeland
  and Marshall Cohen, eds. Oxford University Press,
  1983, pp. 339-354
• Bernstein, Martin and Martin Picker. An
  Introduction to Music. (IM) Simon and Schuster
  Custom Publishing, 1998.
• Musical Pieces by Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and
  Gleason