Evolution of Dance

The educational experience of dance.

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Eartha Kitt by Philipe Halsman, 1955.

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Did you know that Eartha Kitt started her career at the Katherine Dunham Company? 

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DJ Kool Herc. 

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The set up back in the day!

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Famous song by pioneering Hip-Hop group, Salt-N-Pepa.

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Salt n Peppa and Spinderella 

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MC Lyte (1992)

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Renegades of Funk.

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Soul Train was the first outlet for expressing self. Soul Train line was the first form of African American Venacular Dance. It became a ritual because people began to do it everywhere. 

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ICE CUBE and Afrika Bambataa

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afrika bambaataa. new york. early 80’s.

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i bet the parties at that time were bananas. can i get a time machine for just a quick minute? lol.

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FIVE PILLARS OF HIP HOP

Breakboying

Master of Cerimony

Disk Jockey

Graphic Art

Knowledge

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Modern Dance

    Modern Dance was founded in Germany and is also known as aesthetic dance. Aesthetic dance is a dance focusing on the nature of art, beauty, and taste while appreciating creation. It is widely based off of nature and majority of all ballets are nature inspired. It focused on Somatics which includes body therapies, bodywork, body-mind integration, body-mind discipline, movement awareness, and movement education. All these traits enable a dancer to enhance kinaesthetic awareness along with using sensory awareness to modulate movement range to uncover the potential for new mobility.  Ruth St. Davis founded “pseudo-exoticism” which is the fascination of other cultures. Martha Graham was an American modern dancer whose influence on dance is compared to “Picasso’s influence on the modern visual arts”. She was said to have been the one who brought modern dance to the 20th century. She spent her entire life as a dancer and was very talented. She traveled the world and received many prestigious honors. An example of that was that she was the first dancer to ever perform at the White House and received the Key to the City of Paris to Japans Imperial Order to the Precious Crown. She established the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance where she choreographed till her death. This company is the oldest dance company in America, where it was founded in 1926. It inspired and helped create many famous dancers throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Here, she codified the technique of modern dance, which was later coined “The Graham Codified Technique”.