Rudolf Laban
Labanotation
Most Jooss’s early works tend to Laban's technique (Labanotation),
Jooss began his dance training with Rudolf Laban in 1920 and quickly came to
embody Laban's techniques.Jooss used narratives and modern theatre styles to make
performable works of Dance Theatre, further developing the work of Laban and
his system of notation. Within a year of leaving Laban, Jooss took the
opportunity to establish his own dance company called, Die Neue Tanzbühne. It
was here Jooss met Fritz Cohen, the Jewish composer who worked with Jooss on
many of his famous pieces.
For dance choreography, Jooss abandoned the traditional dace actions such as pointe, complex turning action and some other programs, but retained the basic ballet footwork and posture, and boldly creates and uses a rich theatrical expressive gestures.
ReplyDeleteI think that the performance of Kurt Jooss was the expressionist dance avoided both abstraction and influences from modernist art yet explored themes of social alienation and anxiety. Indeed, Jooss acquired an exaggerated reputation as a satiric commentator on social role-playing because he respected traditional narrative models for framing bodily movement. His modernism therefore depended on his situating expressionistically distorted images of contemporary social types within a premodern narrative structure.
ReplyDeleteHis dance reflected the artistic trend of German Expressionism. Moreover, He created dance movements by combining elements of modern dance and the basic principles of classic ballet which is interesting.
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