Dances of protest.Is there a role for art in troubled times beyond escape or catharsis? These choreographers thought so; their dances were their voices raised in social protest. They hold up mirrors and make a howl. * The Green Table, Kurt Jooss (1932). Anti-war piece inspired by World War l but based on the medieval Dance of Death. In repertoire of the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago; performances by the Milwaukee Ballet in February 2004. * Lysistrata, Antony Tudor (1932). Based on the classic Greek play by Aristophanes where Athenian women withhold sex from men until war is stopped. Echoing of Trumpets (1963), village women are degraded by an occupying army. * Anti-War Trilogy, Anna Sokolow (1933). Inquisition (1936), Excerpts Fram a War Poem (1937), and Slaughter of the Innocents (1934). * Romance, Ted Shawn (1943). A girl is left behind in wartime. July 2000 at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, summer dance concert series held annually near Lee, Mass., in the Berkshires. The site, originally an 18th-century farm, was purchased by the American modern dancer Ted Shawn in 1930, and three years later it became the home of his Men by Genivieve Pellman with Sharry Underwood's DANSARTE, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic. Antonym: dec. . * War Lyrics, Jose Limon (1940), and Comedy (1968), a version of Lysistrata. * The Clowns, Gerald Arpino (1968). Possible nuclear holocaust. * The Peloponnesian War, Daniel Nagrin (1968). Vietnam War. * Collaboration With Wintersoldier, Steve Paxton (1971). The bombing of Cambodia. * The Triumph of Death, Flemming Flindt (1971 -72). Made for television, then restaged for the Royal Danish Ballet Royal Danish Ballet, one of the oldest major ballet companies, established at the opening of Denmark's Royal Theater in Copenhagen in 1748. The company was developed over the centuries by three great masters. . End-of-the-world imagery. Notorious nude finale. * Gloria, Kenneth MacMillan (1980). World War I. * Soldiers' Mass, Jiri Kylian (1980), World War II; Arcimbaldo (1995), NATO NATO: see North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO in full North Atlantic Treaty Organization International military alliance created to defend western Europe against a possible Soviet invasion. bombing of Yugoslavia There were two aerial bombings of Yugoslavia in history.
* Docudance: Nine Short Dances About the Defense Budget and Other Military Matters, Liz Lerman (1983). * Odyssey, John Neumeier (1995). Homeric legend, draws a parallel with the Vietnam War. Performed by the Royal Danish Ballet in its 2002-2003 season. * In the Beginning ... 1970, Gus Giordano (1996). Massacre of Kent State students. In rep of Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago. * Back Home, Dietmar Seyffert (1996), for San Francisco Ballet San Francisco Ballet, or SFB, is a San Francisco, USA based ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, where it is directed by Helgi Tomasson. . * Oh Beautiful, Deborah Hay (2002). Inverted States, Joanna Haigood (2002). Misdirected leadership in the name of patriotism. * Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier, Tamar Rogoff (2002). Post-traumatic stress. * Rodgers and Hammerstein's Xenophobia Xenophobia Boxer Rebellion Chinese rising aimed at ousting foreign interlopers (1900). [Chinese Hist. !, James Beaudry, MFA candidate at Mills College (2003). Disney-fication of war. * Dancing for Peace, Jenna Veatch, Barnard College student (2003). In four stops of the New York subway. Former American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. dancer Joseph Carman is a contributor to DANCE MAGAZINE, The New York Times, and The Advocate. |
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