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Bogart
American theatre
director
SITI company
Developed
“Viewpoints” technique
Written several works
on theatre
Pina
German (born 1940)
Studied at Julliard
Joined Folkwang
Ballet Company (became artistic director)
Died of lung cancer
(2009)
By moving to new york
she was able to pull away from traditional ballet
Feeling of nothing
being concrete affected her as an artist
Her dances were
against the status quo
Influences: Anthony
Tudor (instructor at Julliard, emotional gestures), Martha Graham
(metaphorical/abstract), Rudolf Laban
(everyday movements, huge influency on a lot of atists), Kurt Jooss (one of
Germany’s most influential choreographers)
Shared experiences
with dancers rather than vocabulary movements (more focused on the
process/journey to the end product) wanted dancers to express their own
experiences. Mainly solos
Plays with reality
whilst leaving room to dream and be imaginative (disturbing yet leaves us
hopeful)
Expressing emotion
physically. Emotions essential for dance to become. Reflects on the problem in
life. Interaction between man and woman.
Architecture
Collaborations: Rolf
Borzik (designed sets and costume used for dance theatre. Agreed that the
styles at the time weren’t right. Major part of the dances are costume and set
so without these people a lot of what became her dances wouldn’t be as it is),
Marion Cito (Asked to take over for costumes after Bozrik’s death, extended
Borzik’s approach), Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
Techniques:
Repetition (captures themes of the dances, ritualistic, Recontextualizing
common gestures to heighten the meaning), Employment of different races and
athnic groups (able to work with people from loads of countries, different
experiences), Speech (non traditional, talking during a piece “wasn’t dance”),
Uses more of the upper body (most of emotions and thinking happens in the upper
part of the body),
Works: Café Muller
(deserted café with scattered tables and chairs spread out that dancers stumble
into and move the chairs around, etc.), Rite of spring (stage covered in soil,
ritual of mating, girls are scared, ), Kontakthof (all actions are
minimalistic, where the dancers showcase themselves infront of the audience,
original one the actors were all 50 and up).
Tanztheatre Wuppertal
(Wuppertal Ballet): near her birth town Solingen, Different performances, Works
generate expression not teaches it, ensemble were very different
Minimalistic,
simplistic ways of moving that captures thoughts and emotions that can’t be
explained in any other way.
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