CREATIVE DANCE BLOG

 Dance notation is an alphabet of symbols for the writing of dance. The most functional system invented by Rudolf Von Laban and developed by Albrecht Knust during the first half of the 20th century, has been used extensively to record movements of the human body in many styles. These dance scores can be reconstructed and interpreted like music score can be read.  The symbols indicate precise analysis of body movement from the most basic motor activities such as walking, running, skipping and so on, to the most complex combination of structural elements in choreography, spatial design, rhythmic configurations, dynamic variations of dramatic movement (realized through training in exertion and in control of energy) are created on a complete dance score.  EARLY SYSTEMS The earliest known dance script, found in the Municipal Archives of Cervera Catalonia, Spain was written about 1455 and employs five abstract signs: (- l l 3 9). The two most significant systems of dance notati...

  Diaghilev  At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Imperial Ballet had already become stereotyped. At that time, a very young and promising dancer & choreographer whose name was Michel Fokine, together with Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev broke away and took Russian Ballet first of all to Paris and from there to the rest of Europe. This era was known as the Diaghilev Ballet Russes which helped to reawaken the interest in ballet outside Russia. Men in Ballet became the in thing and assumed a status of its kind. Examples of great dancers of the era were the likes of Vaslav Nijinsky and the prominent character dancer Adolph Bolm leading the way in ballet. However, when Diaghilev passed away in 1929, it was thought that ballet would also die the way it had also outside the state opera houses as it had been in Paris and Copenhagen. But with the new organization of the new Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1931, and the vibrant companies that grew out of it brought about a spar...

Dawn Ola-Parker is a student of dance studies at a prestigious university in Mexico. She encounters and collides with her dance instructor, Roberto Martinez and begins her training on a wrong footing. After a while however, fate brings them together in a way that she never expects or imagined. Love and passion slowly entwines them in a whirlwind of romance and before long Dawn finds herself engaged to be married to her dance instructor, Roberto. But something happens unexpectedly at the university that threatens her passion to dance and her engagement to Roberto Martinez. Will their love be able to survive the storms? And will Dawn realize that there’s more to her heart than just dancing professionally? This is an intriguing story you don’t wanna miss! You can get your copy @ https://www.xinxii.com/dawn-504332

It took a while before women began to dance ballet. Women did not enter the scene professionally until 1681. The most famous women dancers of the early and mid 1700’s were Marie Camargo and Marie Salle. Marie Camargo shortened her skirts to show her ankles, and wore soft slippers to dance instead of the conventional high heeled shoes worn at the time. Her chosen shoe style allowed and enabled her to do various steps that weren’t possible before then. She has been credited with inventing the ’entrechat’, known as the high spring, in which the feet are crossed in the air. As for Marie Salle, she discarded the dresses of the era, and wore flowing draperies instead. Their most famous male contemporary was Jean Georges Noverre, whose reforms, anticipating the naturalistic trends of the nineteenth century included the discarding of masks and the wearing of costumes suitable to ballet being performed then. The Romantic Period... In Western Europe, the 19th century saw progress in the d...

Dance has had  it’s existence from the beginning of time. The dance style or form known as ballet,  which is a professional work of art which was intended for stage had its origins in the French court of Henry III and his mother, Catherine de Medicis, when in 1581, the Ballet Comique de la royne (reine) was created to celebrate the marriage of the Queen’s sister. This was the first genuine ballet de cour (count ballet), an elaborate pantomime spectacle showing the fable of Circe and performed by courtiers. Each ballet dance was an adaptation of court dances at that time. Precursors of this dramatic type of dance had already existed in Italy, a notable example being the elaborate court pantomime dance of  1489, which was based on the myths of Jason and the Argonauts, Diana, and so on, to celebrate the marriage Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Duke Of Milan, to Isabella of Aragon. Such entertainment continued for a hundred years, reaching their peak, during the reign of Louis XIV, who...

Many times we go ‘wow’ , when we watch a well choreographed dance performance either in a music video or on stage. And we often wonder: ‘how did they dance so uniquely and uniformly?’ Well, that’s the work of the choreographer. The choreographer is one who creates and arranges dances and teaches dancers to perform a dance to the delight of an audience. He decides what the moves and steps will be and the dancers perform the steps. He or she also takes the ideas and opinions of the dancers, and blends them together to make a beautiful performance. Firstly, the choreographer directs rehearsals to teach dancers how to dance. These rehearsals are often intense and time consuming if dancers are going to master the steps to be able to present them uniformly. Secondly, he studies the dancers’ unique physical abilities and make up and brings into practice different steps and moves. Thirdly, he assesses each dancer’s ability and works with them to improve on their weaknesses. He also chooses the...