USA: Dance; 2; Four Pioneers

this is today almost but once the revolution or revolt was against conventions against more than a century fairy tales selections and that's the result was an american revolt led by american supply it was a significant step for watching a full performance let's go back and tries to find out how these movements came about the dance revolution was fought on many fronts are a key battle took place here either man's bennington college over a span of seven summers on this quiet campus in these green mountains modern dance movement grew from adolescence to maturity and it all began in nineteen thirty four when bennington offered its facilities for school pants

you offer was difficult to refuse the facilities were pleasant maple trees lining gravel wants the frame houses border in a quadrant of commons building overlooking it all a good place to work and was immediately adopted accepted occupied by for pioneers of modern this film was taken in nineteen thirty four but the voice was recorded in a recent interview the voices on a whole lucy bennington was a beginning not only physical and it was also a job in particular point of view behavior has been submitted to revalue his dissent and human beings don't always have to be kind of re educated to think in a different way a second pie and it was charles why he remembers the bennington days well so we were very strong impression that this is the way this must be repetitious weekend

calling into all things of destroying anything else you know the third pioneer was martha graham was expressed in a speech to a group of bands do this several years ago it's bane and finally there was doris humphrey was also recorded in a speech to a group of students in nineteen fifty six two years before her death the body is just dreaming that tells his modern dance meets more than almost any other kind of communication that you are really doing what is going on in the inside this was the setting these investments and these

remains besides the father was present choreographers and composers dancers and designers and an artist with a camera barbara morgan these are still pictures of artists were present but the focus was on the floor they will watch them they will listen to and they will follow doris humphrey and shells whiteman humphrey whiteman their names always joined for that i formed an alliance years before which was to last for many years after on your own a teacher or philosopher of dan's determined to work out her ideas and develop a movement about movement martha graham part irish part two written on the one hand that the core of the revolt and at the same time the absolute frontier influencing martha guiding motto for stimulating martha was the composer louis hawks caused insisted today is required of music

as modern as broad categories classic romantic snow tchaikovsky a designer from the cleveland playhouse he said a new concept of theater required a new concept of space but there was little space available so what are conjured it up out of practically nothing on the top of commons was a bell tower on the second floor was a dining hall in between there was a lawsuit you can recite verses halogen once been an old estate and on the state was hard on it would make an ideal studios of walls are mirrored and the floors will launch in the studio it became but it was still known as the current on

the pay downtown armory was taken over by the sea these bony tissue research and a season ending monument of that was a time when it hummed with curious audience is up from the butcher resorts up from leon's lenox from springfield and litchfield and the glasses from boston and new york up to see how out of nothing there had been found or made or design of theater a hundred homes it on the air and through the summer in bennington be invited to bring them on for this amount of time and that there are taking care of soul in peace he could really were connected elevators untimely and alice this is said that that the costumes behalf ways to write it seamstresses and it was the music written

in the us it was really a gift from heaven you know what so as you couldn't find a new york militia fought for every five minutes there which question of religion but also their homes the pioneer's all and that companies and all gave performances this pictures of the bands on your home called tram remington was i'm going back again and using the body and not only as a form shape and pattern of using it to its own right is that what it is going down to the law without going down into the areas of the body there is a taboo that is the possibility any part of your body is permissible to move to humans if it is within their right of the anti have gone out and he would like to create so for instance in the body certain areas of the body you don't go to toys destroys the style and a man and i was just it was created by which was an

ally of that why you were bouncing went to a bouncing about and that created an entire different set of movements on your home summarized the philosophy in this way over the times and knew that he was in agony it isn't all hot eight singles and so these days were there that it is the only student coming that each one has a different one isn't it always children coming each one different always new ideas ideas springing from within within the self is celebrating the self its uniqueness and its individuality and i'm a dancer like the students at bennington college today pastor discovered that and then create movement which rose out of it gradually technique involves a technique developed through discipline

it isn't the studio that into the theater than once more back to the studio and fifty times over and then the next time it will be spontaneous spontaneous it's true this was a loss it is later in his speech

you're right doris humphrey and shells weidman from the third company and benny they had met while dancing with advantages on brute cradle of modern dance act ensured the two discovered they shared the same spirit of rebellion and decided to go off on their own their ideas to many shapes but the foundation of the mall was that dance should be religion being natural and that should be part of life charles wyden explained it this

way we are going to reveal one was the revolt is designing the good japanese media chinese we needed everything i will affect how they could do these things however i'm with expanded new japanese then says why not because veterans of the channel because of the sediment more japanese well i don't have that would be in pieces of this country that and maybe they are all most of them are ballet was out to the rebels of modern dance it was all old fashioned the toe shoe attuned to the solemn reading then hoisting the pretty ballerina dancing is not for transforming his feelings

she was not afraid because it was so soon she would transmit what was inside outside she would translate feeling within the movement without and she would utilize music space and bodies in a new and dramatic twenty one i'm dreaming of kells has been active and speaks more than any other kind of communication that you are really think what is going on indeed inside of people there are hundreds of things to dance about making your own experience what happens to you there are also funds the things a chicken dance about being done or it's a good idea to dance about something you understand it reportedly here in america and promoting american dance then we better try

to work indigenously and his posture what we have thirty some years have passed since the bennington days a whole generation of students a whole generation the legacy of the nineteen seventies wherever and answer is trying to america is aware of these four and consciously or unconsciously he takes from their influence is everywhere in american assets in the broadway musical as well as what it is in a modern company but the line is most direct director the past director the pioneer days of bennington yes it can

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