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Modern Dance 'Mother' Martha Graham

Greek legends and even Biblical themes. Her style was unique to say the least. Graham used her body in a...

Three Fictitious Modern Dance Troupes

In five pages this paper creates three modern dance companies each based in New York City and incorporating influences of Merce Cu...

U.S. Modern Dance History

skirt of transparent silk, being back-lit would produce dramatic shapes of light through the skirt (Eley, 2002d). She created her ...

Early Life of Choreographer Martha Graham

In five pages this paper examines how Martha Graham's artistic inclinations and motivation were influenced by her early childhood ...

Dancers and Variations in Attitudes

also evidence that some attitudinal variations were indeed caused by prejudice. Authors suggests that more research is necessary t...

Theater and Dance

In twelve pages this paper discusses how dance has been an essential component in theater evolution throughout history in terms of...

Choreographers Charles Weidman and Alvin Ailey

which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (Beginnings of Modern Dance, 2004). By the end of the 1920s, th...

Martha Graham and James Joyce

about the time of the life of Beethoven, artists needed the patron to support them in order to have the freedom to pursue their ar...

Review of Martha Ballard's Diary, A Midwife's Tale

perform verses women and the social differences which existed at that time between the two sexes. Ballards writings unveil ...

Artist's Role According to Martha Graham and James Joyce

In three pages Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is featured in this comparative analysis of Joyce's and Graham's perceptions ...

The Cakewalk Dance

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...

Overview of the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago

company (which took on the name Gus Giordano Dance Company) was televised live frequently on WTTW-TV, which was Chicagos public te...

Jonathan Kozol's Ordinary Resurrections

see that the children bear the brunt of the negativity that exists. According to Kozol most of these children have never had a ...

Borderline Personality Disorder Represented by the Character of Graham in the Film Sex, Lies and Videotape

uses his videotapes to overstep personal boundaries with women. Important to note in his interactions with women is his revelatio...

Second Reconstruction and Southern Politics According to Numan Bartley and Hugh Graham

in the South following World War II. This section of the book describes the "one party politics" of the region, a time when Repub...

The Deaf of Martha’s Vineyard

- virtually all of them knew it - so that they could "talk" to their deaf friends (Groce). Not only that, but when Groce interview...

Multicultural Writing and Exile

In seven pages th is paper discusses how exile is thematically developed in such multicultural writings as Goodbyes by Pablo Nerud...

Regulating Behavior Through Communication

In five pages the ways in which verbal and nonverbal communications can be employed as regulations on behavior are examined throug...

"Mother To Son" - Reader Response Criticism

Hughes mother who says "So, boy, dont you turn back. Dont you set down on the steps. Cause you finds its kinder hard," mine was ...

The Sociocultural Dance Influence of Alvin Ailey

a rural to urban environment that would have a profound impact upon Aileys all-inclusive approach to dance (Dingus, 2000; McDonagh...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

Paul Taylor - Interpreting Works of Modern Dance

moving about in a city going about their everyday business. In particular, one can observe movements in just the first installment...

Dance Practice

indications are, as they attempt the dance moves that are described by the instructor, that this is the initial lesson for the mov...

Dancing and Fela Anikulapo's Music

This 4 page paper gives an overview of how African beats and music have influenced dance. This paper includes Fela Anikulapo's mus...

Katherine Dunham, Aspects of Her Legacy

This research paper discusses aspects of the career of Katherine Dunham, the first choreographer to research and incorporate Carib...

Motherhood and Race, Michelle Obama, Lesbian and Gay Parents

This 10 page paper gives an explanation to many homework answers concerning motherhood and African Americans. This paper includes ...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

'Dance' and the Painting by Matisse and Poem by Natalie Safir

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

Doris Humphrey and Her Dance Reviewed

as is further seen in the following: "Welcome as it was, however, this very success meant that young Doris was trapped in a teachi...