Modern Dance II Fall 2022

  Announcements   1   Beyond the Sounds of Silence. Latin-American Artists Connecting Sound, Art, and Society https://www.lowe.miami.edu/exhibitions/current-upcoming/index.html   Live Performances by sound artists from Beyond the Sounds of Silence Saturday, Oct 1, 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Lowe Art Museum 1301 Stanford Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146 Beyond the Sounds of Silence: Latin American Artists Connecting Art, Sound and Society Closing Event featuring live Performances by sound artists Gustavo Matamoros and Richard Gare  2     Spontaneous Performance Works Maria   Schneider , a Grammy award winning jazz composer, is coming to campus next month for a week-long residency with the students in the HMI at the Frost School of Music. Maria has a love of working with dancers and musicians improvising together to create new spontaneous performance works.  She would like to do another dance/music improvisation workshop Monday, O...

    Beyond the Sounds of Silence: Latin American Artists  https://www.lowe.miami.edu/exhibitions/current-upcoming/beyond-sound-of-silence/index.html   Link to the exhibit   https://sway.office.com/tKeeUNKBbuBkvHx4?ref=Link   In the beginning was sound. Not only is hearing the first sense to awaken in humans and the last to be extinguished, but “oscillation, resonance, rhythmicity and coherence are properties of the brain” and structure the consciousness that organizes the changing image of reality.[1] Even beyond the spectrum of what is audible to our species, sound is primordial.[2] Everything that exists, whether in the dark immensity of the waters or in the sidereal universe, vibrates and resonates at a certain frequency.[3] In the depths of the seas, acoustic energy crosses long distances by traveling through a sound channel called SOFAR, which allows marine creatures to communicate.[4] Pythagoras had already imagined the music produced by the rotation ...

  I  Warm up II Stretching III Video   INFLUENCES   Die Brücke  and  Der Blaue Reiter IV Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about dance. Using the question below as a prompt, they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. Question 1 Based on this video, what is expressionism? V Video   Arnold Schönberg Analysis Students discuss among themselves Schönberg's ideas about music. Using the question below as a prompt, they write about it and post their reflection on Discussion Board. Question 2  After watching Bernstein's presentation on Schönberg's music, what aspect of Schonberg's music could have influenced Wigman's ideas about dance? ------------------------------------------------ VI LINKS: Reading Expressivity Schools Check the link and scroll down to page 110. VII Analysis Students discuss among themselves Mary Wigman's ideas about expression, using the question below as a prompt, they...

I Warm Up II Stretching III Video IV   Dance Expressionism   Expressive dance from German Ausdruckstanz , is a form of artistic dance in which the individual and artistic presentation (and sometimes also processing) of feelings is an essential part. It was a revolution. It would be more expressive, and show more spirit and emotion and less virtuosity. The dance would be improvisational, uninhibited and provocative. Future spiritual and bodily reform movements expressed themselves in a new "natural" naked dance. Schools for expressionist dance had special philosophies and emphases for dance, such as naturalness, breathing, tension / relaxation etc. It was often associated with floor contact, "weight" of dance movements, and experiments with music. Body and physicality were strongly emphasized.  Rudolf Laban was a theoretical prominent figure who was based on metaphysical ideas and one of the pioneers of Ausdruckstanz in Germany. From 1913-1918, Laban o...

  I Warm Up II  Stretching III Review Concept: Space and Relationship / Laban's Cube   Apace and Relationship T he kinesphere is also the container of a cube (containing all diagonal directions and dimensions) and of an icosahedron made by three bi-dimensional planes: it contains angular geometry inside a round geometry. IV Activity Students experience what is like to move inside the imaginary cube, first individually (by following directions as to how to place themselves inside of it) then collectively (by using their creativity as each member of the group engages in different position). V Analysis Students discuss among themselves  their experience moving inside the imaginary cube. They use the question below as a prompt to write their reflections about the  relationship of the body with the space on Discussion Board.    Question 1 Explain in your own words the meaning of the kinesphere within the Laban's cube?    ---------------...

  I Warm Up II Several subcategories of body are: Initiation of movement starting from specific bodies Connection of different bodies to each other Sequencing of movement between parts of the body   Patterns of body organization and connectivity -----------------------  III Patterns of Connectivity     With knowledge of Laban's concepts, via Bartenieff, Peggy Hackney identified six developmental patterns of body connectivity: breath, core-distal, head-tail, upper-lower, body- half, and cross-lateral .   Total Body Integration (Page 20)   Standing Lateral Core Distal Upper Lower  --------------------------------------------- IV. FLOOR Early Patterns of Total Body Connectivity. Question 2 After trying and/or observing the different movement patterns, explain how did it feel to put your body through this work? ------------------------------------------ IV    Laban-Baternieff 5 Developmental Movement Patterns    Naval Radiation Spi...

  I Warm Up/Stretch II Body The body category describes structural and physical characteristics of the human body while moving.  This category is responsible for describing which body parts are moving, which parts are connected, which parts are influenced by others, and general statements about body organization.    Breath   Deliberately bringing your awareness to your breath as support for your movement is a precursor to whole-body coordination and virtuosity in movement. This is true for movers of all levels as breath allows the entire body to be supported from within in complex coordination.  Source: https://us.humankinetics.com/blogs/excerpt/total-body-connectivity-breath-patterning Breath Connectivity Athletes breathing versus diaphragmatic breathing. Walk around the room (Use directions, levels and focus) Now connect with your breath ass you walk. Now move on the inhale and pause on the exhale. Then, move on the exhale and pause on the exhale. ...

  I Warm Up / Stretch II Review of Solo Phrase Review of Ensemble Phrase III       Aristotle approached beauty from another perspective. Beauty is not a means to an end, but an end in itself; that is, an immediate quality. He distinguishes between end and means, identifying the latter with the useful. Useful are all everyday goods that do not become a means to something. Beauty, on the other hand, is not arbitrary, contingent, or irrational. This has served as the basis for his aesthetic to be qualified as rationalist. Beauty is contained in symmetry, which he considers the symbol of perfection, linked to the classic concept of beauty: harmony, order and proportion. Question  1 Based on the way Aristotle approached beauty,  how would you define rationalist beauty? IV   Art Nouveau In creating these harmonic designs, Laban utilizes his artistic understanding of  human anatomy, proportion, and range of motion.  Moreover, he draws on hi...