DANCE200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Pointe Shoe, Isadora Duncan, Mary Wigman
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Dance 200: the spectrum of dance in society. Some queen saw folk dances and taught them in the court. came from the french royal court louis the 14th. To control the nobles, dance was considered a social ladder. If you got better at dance, you could stand closer to louis in court. It is important because it has the power to move people and divide people in status. Women were first used in ethereal roles (jumping, pointe shoes). Men then became more important in moving and lifting the women and became the furniture movers. The tutu is a pancake away from the waist. They wore a corset to cinch their waist. The rejection of ballet was the movement of the barefoot aesthetic style . Modern dance is the non-verbal communication/expression in movement. Modern dance brings a new technique (vocabulary of movements). Early history [early 20 century: return to expressive motives for dance, rebellion against classical ballet, beginnings :
