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Contemporary dance through the years - Coggle Diagram
Contemporary dance through the years
1960s
Robin Howard
Robin Howard became a full-time patron of modern dance in
1963
, this began with his sponsorship of performances by the Martha Graham Dance Company
1966
Robin Howard opens the London Contemporary Dance group (later named Dance Theatre) and the contemporary dance trust
In
1969
Howard based the Trust in a London complex of buildings known as The Place which has been a centre for British contemporary dance ever since.
English Dance Patron
He persuaded Graham to return to Britain to appear at the
1963
Edinburgh Festival
Richard Alston
1968
Richard Alston creates his first works while being one of the twelve students at London Contemporary dance school
British Choreographer
Cycladic Figure (1969), Something to Do (1969), Still Moving Still(1969), Matrix(1968) and Transit(1968)
Trisha Brown
She studied all dance forms including tap,ballet and Jazz but said she that she has 'exhausted conventional teaching methods'
Her inspiration to create nontraditional dances was John Cage’s lecture Indeterminacy in
1960
and Anna Halprin's studio classes which were focused on improvisation,vocalisation and anatomy.
In
1968
, Brown created her signature Equipment Pieces through the use of ropes,pulleys and mechanical devices. Her dancers also didn't have a natural relationship with gravity.
Started the idea of collaboration between performer
and place.
American Choreographer
Twyla Tharp
In
1963
Twyla Tharp took many dance classes while finishing her Art degree.
She most most inspired by Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham
1965
Tharp presented her first dance work, Tank Dive
Medley was created in
1969
with the idea of showing how art and life could co-exist with
one another using everyday movements
New York Dance Scene
Yvonne Rainer
The arts first started to join together including musicians, poet, dancers and artists
In 1962, Rainer and a small group of experimental choreographers founded the Judson Dance Theatre
This company was not just about dance but had people from visual arts,poets and musicians all working together in creative workshops to gain inspiration from each other.
"The art world was so much smaller then. The same group of people were involved in music concerts, art events and dance concerts. It was an exhilarating time, a very heady time."
1670s