Sentences with phrase «modern dance movement»

Though widely recognized for her photographic images of the American modern dance movement from the 1930s and 1940s, Barbara Morgan began her career as a painter, and continued to produce works on paper throughout her life.

Barbara Morgan is widely recognized for her groundbreaking photographic images of the American modern dance movement from the 1930s and 1940s.

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Sarah began practicing yoga with a Rodney Yee DVD in her parent's living room as a teenager, but her love affair with mindful movement of the body began with 10 years of training in classical ballet & modern dance.

Elinore has over twenty years of movement and dance experience in the styles of ballet, lyrical, modern, and jazz in her repertoire.

The script comes with 22 audio tracks containing 6 attractive modern easy songs and musical pieces for dance / movement sequences.

Classes include ballet, modern, jazz, breakdance, creative movement, creative dance, tumbling, pre - ballet, Moving Poetry, Gyrokinesis, Pilates mat, Twist & Tone and stretch and strength.

Abandoning the lumbering tank movements of other giant robot games, the robots of Zone of the Enders moved with a pole - dancing, acrobatic style that would become the hallmark of modern action games like Devil May Cry or Dynasty Warriors.

Belgian dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker introduced her postmodern dance work «Violin Phase» — the third of four movements set to the music of Steve Reich — at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts on Monday and Tuesday.A square - shaped sheet of white sand was placed in the middle of a white cuboid space while the late afternoon sunlight streamed in.

It examines the college's critical role shaping many major concepts, movements, and forms in postwar art and education, including assemblage, modern dance and music, and the American studio craft movement — influences that can still be seen and felt today.

Over the past decade, choreographer Pam Tanowitz has created a body of work that fuses ballet with classic modern dance, creating abstract movement that challenges stylistic expectations, as well as conventions of composition and the concert - going experience.

This series reflects the «movement» and «dancing» of particular Modern building as perceived by the eyes of pedestrians walking by them.

Inspired early in his career by modern dance — notably through his relationship with members of New York City's influential Judson Church dancers — and Japanese Zen gardens, the artist sought to create works that engage viewers in movement, taking in his large - scale sheet - metal pieces by navigating the space around them.

Belgian dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker introduced her postmodern dance work «Violin Phase» — the third of four movements set to the music of Steve Reich — at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts on Monday and Tuesday.

These patterns are drawn from the artist's ongoing exploration of the influential movement theories of Hungarian dancer and choreographer Rudolf Laban, who figured prominently in the development of modern dance in the first half of the twentieth century.

Her choreography scrutinizes the mutual influence between the use of gesture and movement in the «low», «commercial» genres — such as romantic comedy, TV soap, or hip - hop video - clip — and in «arts», such as ballet, modern dance and performance.

The movement she has learned from modern dance, has influenced the contemporary techniques and finishing touches for each painting.

In Orient five actors are captured in a modern ruin performing gestures and movements drawn from slapstick and modern dance.

Brown's rigorous structures, combined with pedestrian or simple movement styles and tongue - in - cheek humor brought an intellectual sensibility that challenged the mainstream «modern dance» mindset of this period.

Although Merce Cunningham had made radical departures from classical modern dance, his work remained within certain technical and contextual restraints — that is, his [movement] vocabulary remained a specialized, technical one, and he presented his dances in theaters for the most part.

Merce Cunningham, American modern dancer and choreographer who developed new forms of abstract dance movement.

White Cockatoo and Summertime are typical of this high moment; their lyricism and purity of movements» remind one of the abstract yet deeply expressive gestures of the modern dance.

NEW YORK — Merce Cunningham, the avant - garde dancer and choreographer who revolutionized modern dance by creating works of pure movement divorced from storytelling and even from their musical accompaniment, has died at age 90, a spokeswoman said Monday.

Vogue Femme is a very fluid dance style with exaggerated «feminine» movements influenced by ballet and modern dance.