DANCE 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Organic Movement, Antony Tudor, Alwin Nikolais
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Dance 100 lecture 15 second generation. Focused on american themes: very narrative. Used american composers: dance accompaniment performed live. Cunningham technique: fluid torso and spine, strong limbs. Movement for movement"s sake: movement and music shouldn"t rely on each other, chance dance. Started dancing in college then joined martha graham"s dance company. Also studied modern with doris humphrey and jose limon and ballet with antony tudor and margaret crake. Contrasts human experience: comedy and tragedy, good and evil. Later danced with martha graham, hanya holm, charles weidman, etc. Started his own company that toured the world and is still performing and popular today. Studied at the humphrey-weidman school and performed at their company. Started limon dance company in 1946: doris humphrey was the artistic director. Developed his own technique based off of doris humphrey"s: fall and recovery, weight and weightless, organic movement. Studied with hayna holm, martha graham, doris humphrey, charles weidman, etc.
