Dance

* The very first habit that any of us acquire is to control our movements, mainly to walk or crawl.

* Twyla Tharp – America’s foremost chorographers, an artist’s whose medium is movement.

* Tharp revealed to extending boundaries, making peace means what a dance is and pushing boundaries to what call also be called dancing.

* Tharp had studied older dances to help her choreograph her dances and her preparing equipped her in a special way for the anarchy in the 60s. She used different languages in her dances.

* Ballet was not about pushing boundaries.

* Dance was traditional – purpose to enforce the preexisting order.

* Dance makers thought themselves as craftsmen, not artists.

* Modern dance started going inside some of our passion and controversies with contemporary people to evoke a feeling through the movement, shapes, dynamics

* To dance is actually to study human feeling on all levels. Inspiration comes from life. If you go to the essence of the dance then your at the core and you find something that’s universal.

* Eiko is another chorographer, who states the history of modern dance, which is her tradition is really each artist striving to define, define, and define how the mind and body work in that contemporary world of that time. So each person is digging very deep into their own mind and body. Digging into personal experience and pushing boundaries is how many choreographers created new dances.

* The very idea that dances can be the medium of revolution is popular during that time period.

* In America dance was opulent extravaganza

* Dunken stated that dance is art, as self expression through movement (women couldn’t move freely as women didn’t have many rights)

* Dunken viewed dance as the art of liberation. Dancing and her life become a symbol of the new womanhood. They were revolting against their clothes and wanted to become independent.

* Dunken figured out how to construct a dance. Dunken made...