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Classical Dance Theater by Gerald Jonas
Dancing The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement

• Presentation by
• Francesca San Roman and Andrew Giles and Edited
  By Laura Pratt and Dr. Kay Picart

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Ballet

• The royal courts that nurtured ballet are either
  gone or stripped of their political power, but
  the courtly ideal of making the most difficult
  feats of prowess look easy has become an integral
  part of the ballet aesthetic(130).

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Ballet Class

• How does class begin?
• The first exercise is the ___
• After finishing at the barre, dancers move to
  the center of the room when they perform similar
  exercises without support(130).

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George Balanchine

• As ballet master of the New York City Ballet,he
  taught the ninety-minute company class every
  morning.
• The classroom was his laboratory, the trained
  bodies of the dancers his tools.(130)
• His choreography was called ___________.

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Kabuki

• Japans kabuki theater achieved classical status
  by a diametrically opposite route from that of
  ballet.
• The word kabuki originally meant
  __________________________________________________
  _____________.

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Kabuki Performers

• In the all-male world of kabuki the icons of
  femininity are _______(136).
• The Japanese word for a kabuki performer who
  specializes in female roles is __________, or
  woman person.
• The performers must not only move like a woman on
  stage, but think ___________.

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Continuing the Kabuki Tradition

• Who trains the young performers?
• How old does training start?
• When are outsiders adopted into the family?

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Women and Kabuki

• Women have performed kabuki outside the classical
  venues
• Women appear as actors and dancers on the modern
  Japanese stage.
• Okuni

www.edu.city.kyoto.jp/.../ school/sougo2.htm
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The Social Structure of Japan in the 17th Century
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Performances

• Kabuki performances started early in the ________
  and lasted ________.
• Staging was an amalgam of ______ effects and
  ________ conventions(142).

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The Theater

• Who attended the theater?
• What was the set up for the stage?

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Dance in Ballrooms

• What was the clothing like for Ballroom dancers
  and ballet dancers?

framingthequestions.berkeley.edu/
vol9/hanson.html
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Ballet Evolves

• Marie Camargo
• Marie Sallé
• Jean Georges Noverre

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• St. Petersburg
• La belle au Bois Dormant ( The Sleeping Beauty)
• Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

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Conclusion

• Ballet has survived the French and the Russian
  Revolution.
• Only time will tell if kabuki can find new
  audiences beyond its homeland.
• Both ballet and kabuki converge on their emphasis
  on charismatic performers.

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Works Cited

• Jonas, Gerald.Dancing The Pleasure, Power, and
  Art of Movement. Classical Dance Theater.New
  YorkHarry N. Abrams. 1992, 128-163.
• old.nssnt.org/ SpaceBallet.htm
•  www.smumn.edu/ sitepages/pid927.php
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• www.israeldance.co.il/ news.htm
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• www.trocadero.com/ features/features4.html
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• www.edu.city.kyoto.jp/.../ school/sougo2.htm
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• www.mvschool.com/.../ kabukidancers_p1.htm
•  www.artsanddesignsjapan.com/ view.php?t1c10
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• framingthequestions.berkeley.edu/
  vol9/hanson.html
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• androsdance.tripod.com/.../ camargo_marie.htm
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• www.theaterverkoopzeeland.nl/ Sleeping20beaut.