DANC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Psy
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* traditional family based activity, skills were kept very secret. * horse was the first performer in circus in 18th century, modern circus. * mounting and dismounting horses, fighting off horses and jumping off of them, picked up skills through war. * displays showing off their horse tricks in london. * standing on horse, full circle around the belly of the horse. * circus ring, 42 feet perfect for riding a horse and doing tricks on them. bio mechanical forces in that round space is perfect for tricks, hippodrome. * acrobats and clowns in-between acts, modern traditional form of circus . * the moscow state circus 1956, first circus school. * new circus is used up to 2000, contemporary cirsus. * mixed the skills and tricks of traditional and new circus. * rise of contemporary circus, advent of circus schools in the west. * (psy les 7 doigts de la main)
