The Four Pioneers and the New Rebels
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To begin with, The Vision of Moder Dance: In the Words of Its Creators is a book in which the story of the development of modern dance is told by the visionary artists who created it. This book emphasizes on five stages or chronoligical stages of dancers: which they are The Forerunners, The Four Pioneers, The Second Generation, The New Rebels, and The New Vision. This book is made up out of essays written by many modern dance artists. For this particular paper I focused and analyzed two particular parts on The Four Pioneers and The New Rebels.
First of all, The Four Pioneers were dancers who developed and came up with new dance tecniques and from their developed choreographies. Also, they deviated to test discoveries about dance movement. This dancers developed the basis for their techniques which they would be using throughout there whole career. They also used breathing to create serious, creative, independent art form. On the other hand, The New Rebels were dancers that began originally to rebel against the poise and formal structure of modern dance. The New Rebels did not like rules in dancing and wanted something different. Also, this modern dancers were freethinkers.
From there, even though this two groups were created and were brought up at different times, they have many similarities. The artsis in both sections have influenced each others work in that the New Rebels followed the Four Pioneers steps. They as well created there new techniques and stuck to what they believed and created. The choreographers from each section did mantain the same philosophy of dance. Both sections of dancers talked about the importance of new techniques and creatind something different and unique. The works are similar in that they did not like to obey rules and that they were freethinkers and liked to come up with new ideas like a mentioned before. All the artists got inspiration from brething and focused in the body movement. They both used the freedom they were allowed to use, alhough you can say the Rebels went a little to far at not obbeying the rules of modern dance and irsdevelopment. Some other connections that i can make from the readings about the similarities of the choreographers artistic works and philosophies of dance are that this artists started from nothing and built dancing with different rules. Some artists didnt like restrictions and also decided to dance barefoot. What this works also had in common is that they made scandalous actions that were not seen right by others. Lastly, I believed this artist focused more on natural movements of the body rather than forced movements.
Also, this two works of art got away from the artificial and the arrogance and focused on being natural and unique. This artists all focused on transmitting emotions, even though they could of done it in different ways. An example of an artist that was an inspiration to many was Graham, whome was inspirations to even other