DNCE 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Graham Technique, New York City Ballet, Doris Humphrey

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Dance
• Course: DNCE 345
• Professor: Anna Mouat

Document Summary

It is intensely individualistic, and leads to a diversity of styles: movement has significance in itself: line, shape, design, rhythm, without literal interpretation. It is the responsibility of the artist to comment on current, social and political issues. Graham and humphrey were dance faculty at bennington college summer school of the. Started in 1934; the first college dance program in the u. s. Offered summer classes in modern dance technique, composition and repertory. Doris: greatest contribution to the development of 20th century modern dance was humphrey"s theories on dance technique and composition. Her dance technique was based on fall and recovery : An exploration of the body moving in space. In particular, the relationship of the body to gravity. The body is continually resisting or giving into gravity. All motion is an arc between 2 deaths : the physical expression of humphrey"s theory. One death is perfect vertical stillness, resisting gravity;