DNCE 345 Lecture 9: DANCE 345 - Lecture 9
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She uses contemporary dance and modern dance interchangeably. She did the ballet movements and her backup did the modern dance movements. No costumes, no music, pedestrian movement: by 1971, her style was one of versatile movement performed by highly skilled dancers. e. g. eight jelly roll s, 1973: deuce coupe, her first work on a ballet company, the joffrey ballet, music by beach boys. Paul taylor does this too (for him its about an event) With this girl its about humour in the movement. Video: she connects her movement with her growing up years with cunningham. Also the start of push comes to shove dance. She"s criticizing two dancers (male and female) for not being intimate enough. studied film at concordia university became interested in dance studied with le groupe nouvelle aire began to choreograph in 1975 founded his company la la la human steps in 1980. His works are abstract and don"t tell stories.
