Modern Dance

Opposite of ballet, more raw movements and naturalized gestures

Isadora Duncan
- Emphasized playful movement, skipping, running, jumping, tossing, and leaping
Martha Graham
- Built favoring female anatomy
- Movement becoming more human
- Celebration of women
- Core initiation/control and release
Lester Horton
- Own style of dance from folk dances around the world
- full body anatomical approach to dance, corrective exercises
- Projections: specific qualities
- Locomotions: phrases designed for travelling steps
- Preludes: short phrases to stimulate internal/external dialogues
- Rhythms: music dance patterns
- Improvisations
- Fortifications: long combo for strength/stamina
Jose Limon
- organic approach to movement
- natural rhythms of fall and recovery
- dynamics of body weight
- clarity and epressiveness of movement without tension
- stylistic influences: Isadora duncan, doris humphrey, charles weidman
Paul Taylor
- uses everyday gestures throughout his choreography
- performed w martha graham

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