Activity 1.
A. Direction: Answer the following. Give what is asked on the question below.
1. Based on what you have learned, explain contemporary dance on your own idea.
- Contemporary dance for me is the dance where you are expressing your own
feelings and emotion with your own choreography, as well as due its ease of
movement the dance help the people to learn more and help them to reach the new
boundary of body movements.
2. What is modern dance?
-Modern dance is a free expressive dancing started in the early 20th century as
reaction to classical ballet.
3. TIMELINE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE
1878 and 1972
1944
In this year Isadora Duncan,
she
emphasize
her
technique and based it on
ease of movement using
the body’s natural energy
and lines, allowing more
range
in
fluidity
of
movement than other
conventional techniques.
In
this
year,
Merce
Cunningham was able to
accompany
his
dance
technique with music from
John Cage, who was able to
perceive that Cunningham’s
dance was away from climax.
The dance was able to
assume that an element I.e. a
sound, in movement,change
of light is an and of itself
dramatic;
as
what
it
communicate is in large part
determined by the spectators
themselves.
1953
In this year, Merce Cunningham
was able to form the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company. He
was able to create over more
than 150 works for the company,
many of which have been
performed even internationally
by both modern dance and ballet
companies.
4. What are the four techniques in Contemporary Dance?
- The Four techiques in Contemporary Dance are Cunningham technique, Graham
technique, Limon tecnique, and Release.