BALLET AND MODERN DANCE

Ballet is a formal form of dance which came from the United States of America.

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Modern dance are more loose and flexible and more free or relaxed as it focuses more on the dancer’s own interpretations of the music.

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Dancers in modern dance wore an all-white dress and white, black, or pink pointed shoes. They also wore leotard, tights, and a bell-like wrap skirt.

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Ballet leaves little room for creative expression because of its rigid and premediated style of movements.

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The term ballet is related to the Italian word balleto, a variation of the word ballo, meaning “dance.” It can also be attributed to the Latin ballere which means “to dance.”

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Ballet dance have light, graceful, and fluid movements, ballet dancers perform en pointe (on toe) on the dancing area.

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The three characteristics of dance are movement of dancers, use of space, and use of gravity.

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Eurhythmics is a system for teaching musical rhythm through body movement. Who developed this kind of system in dancing?

• Mary Wigman

• Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

She sought inspiration from Greek sculpture for her movements and dancing in bare feet.

• Isadora Duncan

• Mary Wigman

She looked to the ethnic dance styles of Egypt, India, and Asia.

• Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

• Ruth St. Denis