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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Modern dance"”.
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Modern Dance: A Historical Consideration
… made an original contribution to the field of dance history. The nine selected published works—Volume 2—written over the course of three decades, consider modern dance between 1900 and 1945 and how its historical study illuminates this significant period. All these writings made contributions …
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A school of modern dance in the city of Berlin
The understanding of place is the primary basis for meaningful architecture. A possible methodology for making architecture begins with a sincere consideration of the complex forces at play on the site. The architect studies the situation and develops a concept as the seed of an architectural …
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Billie's Message: An original dance-drama in the modern dance idiom
Billie's Message is a forty-five minute dance drama expressing through dance and narrative the life of Billie Holiday and the consequences of drug abuse in Holiday's life. It was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Education (MEd) degree. The project was presented …
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A Content Analysis of Modern Dance Values With Application to Recreation
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T01:12:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7317322.pdf: 6031912 bytes, checksum: 11e0beec9aad69f718104afca3b96696 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Modern Dance, Embodiment, and Society: The Graham Technique’s Resistance to Conditioned Physicality
<p>Martha Graham, foremost pioneer of American Modern dance, is the originator and developer of what is known today as the Graham technique. When this technique is removed from performative contexts, the philosophy of its practice can add insight to a discussion of embodiment and what it means to …
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Following the natural pathway: Integrating Barbara Clark's somatic principles with modern dance technique
… Clark's somatic work and its relationship to modern dance technique. The overriding purpose of this heuristic-oriented study was to ascertain and to describe how the fields of somatics and modern dance technique might be pedagogically integrated. Clark, a protégé of Mabel Todd, firmly …
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Dance/movement therapy and architecture : an investigation of modern dance as an informative discipline and theories of the body in architectural design
Thesis made openly available per email from author, 3/16/2018.
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The Strange Commodity of Cultural Exchange: Martha Graham and the State Department on Tour, 1955-1987
… Martha Graham's State Department tours and her modern dance demonstrates that between 1955 and 1987 a series of Cold Wars required a steady product that could meet "informational" propaganda needs over time. After World War II, dance critics mitigated the prewar influence of the German and …
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The Evolution of Yeats's Dance Imagery: The Body, Gender, and Nationalism
Tracing the development of his dance imagery, this dissertation argues that Yeats's collaborations with various early modern dancers influenced his conceptions of the body, gender, and Irish nationalism. The critical tendency to read Yeats's dance emblems in light of symbolist-decadent portrayals …
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Handle With Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies
… investigate how human touch may be used within a modern dance technique class to facilitate effective teaching and learning. This inquiry was based on two initial assumptions: (a) touch is an effective teaching and learning tool for modern dance, and (b) a modern dance technique class defines its …
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On Dancing with Architecture
… contain a nonstandard performance stage for modern dance as well as general public space. However, what does it mean to give shape to the notion of "Dancing with Architecture" in actual physicality? In order to investigate an appropriate answer to this problem, the project offers a unique …
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