Erick hawkins wikipedia
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Modern dance
Genre of western concert or theatrical dance
For the Pere Ubu album, see The Modern Dance.
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against, classical ballet, and also a way to express social concerns like socioeconomic and cultural factors.[1][2][3]
In the late 19th century, modern dance artists such as Isadora Duncan, Maud Allan, and Loie Fuller were pioneering new forms and practices in what is now called improvisational or free dance. These dancers disregarded ballet's strict movement vocabulary (the particular, limited set of movements that were considered proper to ballet) and stopped wearing corsets and pointe shoes in the search for grea
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Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer (–)
Martha Graham (May 11, – April 1, )[1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.[2]
Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown.
She said, in the documentary The Dancer Revealed: "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."[3]
Founded in (the same year as Graham's professional dance company), the Martha Graham School
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Erick Hawkins
American modern-dance choreographer and dancer
Frederick "Erick" Hawkins (April 23, &#;&#; November 23, ) was an American modern-dance choreographer and dancer.[1]
Early life
[edit]Frederick Hawkins was born in Trinidad, Colorado, on April 23, He majored in Greek civilization at Harvard University, graduating in (although Class of ).[2] A performance bygd the German dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi so impressed him that he went to Austria to study dance with the former. Later, he studied at the School of American Ballet.[1]
Career
[edit]Soon, he was dancing with George Balanchine's American Ballet. In , he choreographed his first dance, Show Piece, which was performed bygd Ballet Caravan. The next year, Hawkins was the first man to dance with the company of the famous modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. In , he officially joined her troupe, dancing male lead in a number of her works, including Appalac