Duncan: Arm's Flow & Movement Ideas

 


Question 1

After listening to Duncan's quotation, what would you say was her goal for women's dance? 




Question 2

How does the ideal person in Ancient Greece fit Duncan's model of a dancer?

Question 3

How did transcendentalism influence her dance?






Question 4

What does focus mean in Duncan technique?

Question 5

How do focus and flow relate to the solar plexus or center of the chest?

 Question 6

What does Duncan virtuosity mean?

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Activity

Working with light fabric individually.

Throwing fabric and grabbing it before it falls

Couples, exchange fabrics as they are thrown

Let go of the fabric, and now use your arms as if your are throwing fabric.


Activity

Walking across the space.

Directions

Emphasis on the meta-tarsus

Using arms with random movement through the space.

 

Activity

 Moving across the space

running low impact on meta-tarsus

running throwing fabric with right hand

running throwing fabric with left hand

running with both hands until experiencing momentum

 

running lifting right arm and leg

running lifting left arm and leg

running lifting left arm and right leg

running lifting right arm and left leg

 

turn, step, skip with the right foot

turn, step, skip with the left foot

waltz from side to side

waltz from side to side using arms

 

Asynchronous Students

Pick 8 moves among those listed above and make them part of a dance phrase.

Record and post your phrase on Discussion Board.


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