Madagascar Nation Rehearsals

The main thing I saw about my self in these videos when I watched them back My main weakness was my timing, because sometimes I do the wrong movement which puts me off and makes me out time with the others. So I need too make sure I go over the movements and get the right coordination with my legs and arms. My main strength was doing the movements really strong and powerful, even though I forgot some moves I still had energy and did each movement full out. All I need to improve and work on is my timing and knowing of my movements, and working on my coordination with my arms and legs.   

The release warm ups in class

The Release warm ups are to help us with techniques that are in our Madagascar Nation piece, because some dance movements in the dance piece have release techniques in there. My strengths was doing the exercises full out, adding little details like pointing my toes and using coordination. My weaknesses was my memory of movement and my timing. What I need to improve on for next time is make sure I'm in time with the others and practice the technique over and over in lesson and outside of lessons so that when I come to next lesson, so I know the whole thing without making a mistake. 

Martha Graham Acts of Light 1981

Martha Graham (Acts Of Light 1981)

The principles of Martha Grahams Technique 

Fundamental principles in Graham Technique include contraction and release, opposition, shift of weight and spirals.You should also be prepared for movement that is dramatic even in the opening exercises because Graham’s choreography is filled with vibrant, powerful characters. 

In Acts of Light I recognized that there it was dramatic through the contraction, there was lot of extension with the legs and arms. I could see they were using the 2nd position and Crossed legs, and spirals. 

  

Evaluation: 30/9/15

Martha Graham

Martha Graham May 11, 1894 to April 1, 1991, she was born in Allegheny City later to become part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1894. She was an American Modern Dancer and a choreographer. She has been dancing and choreographing for over seventy years. Martha Graham was the first person to perform at the White House, travelling abroad as a cultural ambassador. She has also received the award for the highest civilian of the US.

Martha Graham was employed at the Eastman School of music in 1925. In 1926, Martha Graham had her own Center of Contemporary Dance which was established. On April 18 of the same year Martha Graham was debuted her first independent concert, consisting of 18 short solos and trios that she had choreographed herself. In 1936, Martha Graham had created the Chronicle which brought serious matters to the stage in an intense way. This has influenced the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Great Depression followed, and then the Spanish Civil War. The dance focused on depression and isolation, which reflected in the dark nature of both the set and costumes.




Martha Graham also had her own dance company. As known she is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century Martha Graham had created a movement language based upon the expressive capacity of the human body. It all started in 1926 when Martha Graham started teaching a group of dancers who had been really influenced with her creative work. This then began the Martha Graham Studio, to continue under her personal guidance for the next 66 years. When official authorization came to dance in 1980 with the formation of the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), it had adopted Martha Graham’s term, “Professional Studio School” to denote independent dance studios that teach to the professional standards.

Martha Graham had choreographed until her death occurred from pneumonia in New York, 1991 at the age of 96 years. Just before she became sick with pneumonia, she finished the final draft of her biography, Blood Memory, which was published afterwards in the fall of 1991.

Dance Rehearsal 21/09/15

First in class we did a warm up then we went over our own motifs we made up for the dance then we had to add three interpretive skills into our motifs and show it back to our partners and get feedback.

My feed back was it was good and it flows into each movement and my facial expression was really good with the movements and my movements are strong and come across as some movements represent violence and can be emotional, but I come out of beat of the music so I need to work on that for next time I do a solo.

Dance (Dorothea Lange)

Dorothea Lange ( May 26, 1895 - October 11, 1965) was an influence American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her depression-era work for the farm security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the great depression and influenced the development of documentary photography.

About Dorothea Lange

Born of second generation German immigrants on May 26, 1895, at 1041 Bloomfield street, Hoboken, New Jersey, Dorothea Lange was named Dorothea Margaretta Nutzhorn at birth. She dropped her middle name and assumed her mothers maiden name after her father abandoned the family when she was 12 years old, one of two traumatic incidents early in her life. The other was her contraction of polio at age seven which left her with a weakened right leg and a permanent limp. "it formed me, guided me, instructed me, helped me and humiliated me," Lange once said of her altered gait. "I've never gotten over it, and I am aware of the force and power of it.

Dorothea Lange Career

With the onset of the Great Depression, Lange turned her camera lens from the studio to the street. Her studies of unemployment and homeless people, starting with " White Angel Breadline " which depicted a lone man turned away from the crowed in front of a soup kitchen run by a widow known as the White Angel, captured the attention of local photographers and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA).