Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation
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Copyright: 2011
Pages: 166
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By its nature, dance seeks to defy confinement and boundaries, exploring pure movement, ritual, lifestyle, communication, tradition, self-expression, or high art. Traversing time, culture, and aesthetics, dance is not like a mathematical problem or a theory in science. You cannot always prove or disprove its usefulness or validity.
Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation examines the ever-changing culture of dance, provides a basic historical context and appreciation of dance as an art form, and provides the skills and tools related to encourage the reader continue to explore dance.
Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation:
- Is created for introductory, university-level students or high school performing arts programs.
- Explores cultural dance origins and definitions, ballet, modern, jazz, African, Indian, Native American, tap, hiphop, Japanese, improvisation, performance art, site-specific work, aesthetics, dance production, the creative process and current trends; exploring video dance, dance fusion, dance modalities, and dance movement therapy.
- Examines how, in each culture and society, dance has paralleled and affected other art forms.
- Includes supplementary video guide, vocabulary glossaries, suggested readings, video resource guide, a timeline of dance history dates, and a graph of basic ballet influences through time to help reinforce topics learned.
SECTION 1 EXPLORING DANCE AS ART
Chapter 1 What Is Art, What Is Dance?
Introduction
Art in Life Context
How Do We Relate to Art?
Origins
Aesthetics
Aesthetics and the Experience of Art and Dance
Dance in Life Context
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 2 Dance in Culture: Dance in Context
Introduction
Dance in World Context
Dance in Culture
Intrinsic Culture
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 3 Creating Art, Creating Dance
Introduction
Creative Process
Seeking the Ephemeral: Exploring the What and Why
Mixing the Concrete
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
SECTION 2 EXPERIENCING DANCE THROUGH HISTORY
Chapter 4 The Courtly Dance, Ballet
Introduction
Exploring the Early Groundwork
The Courtly Dance
Ballet Takes Pointe
Ballet Takes Action
Ballet Takes Center Stage
Ballet as It Currently Stands
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 5 New Dance, Modern Dance
Introduction
Classifying Modern Dance
Exploring Modern Dance
Challenging Modern Dance
Reinventing Modern Dance
Uprooting Modern Dance
Modern Dance Branches Out
Contemporary Modern Moves
What Modern May Become
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 6 Take It to the People, Dance in the American Vernacular
Introduction
Minstrel Shows, Vaudeville, and Changing Social Mores
Moving Sound That Engages: Tap
The Percussive Body: Jazz
Movement to Drive You: Broadway and Musical Theatre
Pulled from the Ballroom: Social Dance
We’re in the Movies
Take It to the Street: Popular Dance
That’s a Wrap!
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
SECTION 3 BEYOND DANCE
Chapter 7 Breaking the Rules, Crossing Borders/Pushing Boundaries
Introduction
You Want Me to Do What?!
Where We Are Is Where It Is
How We Move When We Aren’t Moving
Where We Are and Where We’re Going
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 8 Framing the Picture, Setting the Scene
Introduction
History?
It’s Always a Production!
Giving Inspiration a Helping Hand
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 9 The Dancing Body
Introduction
Healthy Food Is Always Healthy . . . Right?
Assess the Situation
Dancing Longer and Stronger
Logic for the Body—Applying Therapies
Ain’t That the Life!
Taking a Detour
In Short and Simply Put
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Appendix I Dance Timeline
Appendix II Basic Terminology and Vocabulary of Ballet
Appendix III Ballet Influences, ‘A Family Tree’
Appendix IV Basic Terminology and Vocabulary of Modern Dance
Appendix V Suggested Reading List
Appendix VI Suggested Video List
Glossary
Resources
Just Released!
By its nature, dance seeks to defy confinement and boundaries, exploring pure movement, ritual, lifestyle, communication, tradition, self-expression, or high art. Traversing time, culture, and aesthetics, dance is not like a mathematical problem or a theory in science. You cannot always prove or disprove its usefulness or validity.
Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation examines the ever-changing culture of dance, provides a basic historical context and appreciation of dance as an art form, and provides the skills and tools related to encourage the reader continue to explore dance.
Experiencing Dance: A Creative Approach to Dance Appreciation:
- Is created for introductory, university-level students or high school performing arts programs.
- Explores cultural dance origins and definitions, ballet, modern, jazz, African, Indian, Native American, tap, hiphop, Japanese, improvisation, performance art, site-specific work, aesthetics, dance production, the creative process and current trends; exploring video dance, dance fusion, dance modalities, and dance movement therapy.
- Examines how, in each culture and society, dance has paralleled and affected other art forms.
- Includes supplementary video guide, vocabulary glossaries, suggested readings, video resource guide, a timeline of dance history dates, and a graph of basic ballet influences through time to help reinforce topics learned.
SECTION 1 EXPLORING DANCE AS ART
Chapter 1 What Is Art, What Is Dance?
Introduction
Art in Life Context
How Do We Relate to Art?
Origins
Aesthetics
Aesthetics and the Experience of Art and Dance
Dance in Life Context
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 2 Dance in Culture: Dance in Context
Introduction
Dance in World Context
Dance in Culture
Intrinsic Culture
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 3 Creating Art, Creating Dance
Introduction
Creative Process
Seeking the Ephemeral: Exploring the What and Why
Mixing the Concrete
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
SECTION 2 EXPERIENCING DANCE THROUGH HISTORY
Chapter 4 The Courtly Dance, Ballet
Introduction
Exploring the Early Groundwork
The Courtly Dance
Ballet Takes Pointe
Ballet Takes Action
Ballet Takes Center Stage
Ballet as It Currently Stands
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 5 New Dance, Modern Dance
Introduction
Classifying Modern Dance
Exploring Modern Dance
Challenging Modern Dance
Reinventing Modern Dance
Uprooting Modern Dance
Modern Dance Branches Out
Contemporary Modern Moves
What Modern May Become
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 6 Take It to the People, Dance in the American Vernacular
Introduction
Minstrel Shows, Vaudeville, and Changing Social Mores
Moving Sound That Engages: Tap
The Percussive Body: Jazz
Movement to Drive You: Broadway and Musical Theatre
Pulled from the Ballroom: Social Dance
We’re in the Movies
Take It to the Street: Popular Dance
That’s a Wrap!
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
SECTION 3 BEYOND DANCE
Chapter 7 Breaking the Rules, Crossing Borders/Pushing Boundaries
Introduction
You Want Me to Do What?!
Where We Are Is Where It Is
How We Move When We Aren’t Moving
Where We Are and Where We’re Going
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 8 Framing the Picture, Setting the Scene
Introduction
History?
It’s Always a Production!
Giving Inspiration a Helping Hand
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Chapter 9 The Dancing Body
Introduction
Healthy Food Is Always Healthy . . . Right?
Assess the Situation
Dancing Longer and Stronger
Logic for the Body—Applying Therapies
Ain’t That the Life!
Taking a Detour
In Short and Simply Put
Applications and Trends
Creative Projects/Discussion Topics
Vocabulary Key
Appendix I Dance Timeline
Appendix II Basic Terminology and Vocabulary of Ballet
Appendix III Ballet Influences, ‘A Family Tree’
Appendix IV Basic Terminology and Vocabulary of Modern Dance
Appendix V Suggested Reading List
Appendix VI Suggested Video List
Glossary
Resources