Kurt Jooss, he makes dance as a mirror, the essence of the art will never change, but spirit of the time will change with historical progress. Jooss unremitting to chase spirit of the time to mix it in his performance. He is a really great dancer on a 20th Century. I really appreciate his Innovative spirit, such as he mixed expressionistic modern-dance movements with fundamental
ballet technique in his performance to be a new style. He is the most important leader of modern dance on a 20th century concert dance history,he leads the modern dance get better.
I think the thing we need to emphasized is that for dance theory, Jooss together with Laban based on the analysis of coordination between brain, nerves, and muscle, developed a set of principles of physical performance. As a choreographer, he stressed the significance of the action itself, analyzed the characteristics of movement and space in upper mechanics, emphasized expand and enrich the dance language.
ReplyDeleteI think that Jooss's concept of ballet was somewhat ambiguous, for by it he did not mean an elaborately rigid system for automating bodily movement within an extravagantly artificial performance space. He loved the idea of laws governing movement, but he wanted a "gestural training based on natural laws of mimicry and expression," so that movement always appeared "new" and "natural" at every moment of performance.
ReplyDeleteI think his dance was deliberately combined design, music, theme, costumes, story, staging, and movements into a complete work of art. I think he created the unique choreographic form.
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