Unit
Overview
Metamedia Collection
Project May 6: Working in two groups,
reate a metamedia collection related to the
pas de deux of Balanchine's AGON. Complete details here.
Dance
as a classical art - 5 sessions
How does concert dance function as a classical art? What is classicism? A focus on kabuki in Japan and ballet in America, with a consideration of the choreography og George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Lar Lubovitch.
How does concert dance function as a classical art? What is classicism? A focus on kabuki in Japan and ballet in America, with a consideration of the choreography og George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Lar Lubovitch.
Unit
Assignments
read: "Classical Dance Theater" in Dancing pp 128-163
read:
"A Critic Reacts to Balanchine's Stars and Stripes (1958)”
by Lillian Moore in America Dancing
p 219
read:
Kealiinohomoku, Joann "An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form
of Ethnic Dance" in Choen and Copeland What is Dance? Oxford:
Oxford University Press 1983: pp 533-549
read:
Novak, Cynthia "Ballet, Gender and Cultural Politics" in Dance,
Gender and Culture, Helen Thomas, ed., New York: St. Martin's Press,
1993
read:
Daly, Ann "The Balanchine Woman: Of Hummingbirds and Channel Swimmers"
in TDR Vol 31 NO. 1, 1987
view:
view:
view:
view: Portion of Broadway Show Black and Blue
view:
Dancing "Classical Dance Theater" Part I
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Dancing "Classical Dance Theater" Part II
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Dancing "Classical Dance Theater" Part IIII
