+1 862 207 3288 Week 3
Video 3 – Chapter 3 (Part 1 of 2)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQR1RHYh3HA
Video 3 – Chapter 3 (Part 2 of 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IQZxPDy0uI
Video 5 – Chapter 5 (Part 1 of 3)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQBjFEYpXIo
Video 5 – Chapter 5 (Part 2 of 3)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YApE_V9bbg
Video 5 – Chapter 5 (Part 3 of 3)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XErqU9wgJ9w
Dance serves many functions within a culture or group of people and in this course we will examine four of those functions. In Chapter 1, we examined how dance serves as an emblem of cultural identity. In Chapter 2, we explored dance as an expression of religious worship. Dance opens up a direct channel of communication with the gods and ancestors. In Chapter 3, we will explore the use of dance as political tool of state.
(Start viewing at 1:12)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN9pIBH7EdQ
(Start viewing at 3:05)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7I5LX4rOEok
1: Why do you think the president and the first lady are the first to dance at the inauguration ball?
2: What do you believe is the purpose of the 1st dance at the inauguration ball?
3: What political purpose is served (if any) by having the president and the first lady dance first at the inauguration ball?
4: With respect to the movement, is there any difference between the 1st dance at the inauguration ball for George Bush and that of Barak Obama?
5: How would you describe their movements?
(e.g. are the movements fast or slow, do they dance separately or together, etc.)
6: While dancing does the president and the first lady:
A: move their hips in an exaggerated manner?
B: move their shoulders in an exaggerated manner?
C: move their arms in an exaggerated manner?
D: move their head in an exaggerated manner?
E: move their feet in an exaggerated manner?
7: The Ashanti people say that a king looks more majestic when he moves slowly and with deliberation. If the president and the first lady were doing the latest country line dance or the latest hip hop dance with wild abandon, how would that change your perception of the inauguration ball or your perception of the president?
8: How would your perception of the president and the first lady change if while they were dancing, he tripped and fell or he kept stepping on the first lady’s feet?
9: What does the president’s dance moves tell us about the person we have chosen to lead the country?
10: Are there any similarities between the use of dance in our inauguration ball and the use of dance in the courts of Louis XIV?
Chapter 3 (page 72 – 81)
Book name is “Dancing: The Power, Pleasure and Art of Movement” by Gerald Jonas.
Dance as a tool for political powerand as an expression of social order (how people behave in society – what is classified as “right” and what is classified as “wrong.”)
Life at court was often a lavish round of feasts, sports, and other pleasurable activities. Virtually “every” event at court was an opportunity to demonstrate rank. On many of these occasions what activity was central to the display of power?
Dancing at courts everywhere tends to be deliberate, dignified, measured, hierarchical; training is required to do it properly, and, throughout history, what awaits those who fail to meet the court’s high standards?
The story of the young man who danced the minuet so poorly that he suffered the French equivalent of “drum censorship” is an example of the training required to dance properly at court. However, it also illustrates the use of dance as a political tool. By structuring his court around the dance floor, King Louis XIV was able to do what?
The use of dance as an instrument of political power in Europe had roots in which court spectacles?
The lavish spectacles performed at the Italian courts were called what?
What is the Italian word for dance?
To succeedat the court of Louis XIV, a man of ambition had to be accomplished in which areas?
What is the proper bearing for a courtier, according to the Baldassare Castiglione, (Il Castegiano, 1528)?
What year did dancing manuals with detailed instructions on how to perform complex ballroom dances appear in Europe?
The taste for elaborate court spectacles along with the know-how to produce them, was brought to France by whom?
Staged for the royal wedding at the Louvre in 1581, what is the name of the court spectacle that set the standard for all subsequent ballets de cour?
What were some of the spectacular elements of the ballet de cour that was staged for the royal wedding at the Louvre in 1581?
What was the political significance of the French monarch who played the role of The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil)?
What is the name of the French monarch who played the role of The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil)?
The branle, which opened all formal court balls before the 18th century, illustrates by its “structure and form” the meanings and values of this hieratical society. What was the structure of the branle that illustrated the high value that this society placed on rank?
What was the name of the dance derived from the French word for “small step” in which facing partners went through a kind of ritualized courtship?
By requiring the French nobility to attend an endless round of court fetes, hunts, balls and ballets while at his elegant palace at Versailles, Louis XIV did what to this entire class of “titled” troublemakers?
In order to systematize the rules governing the kind of virtuoso dancing that he admired, King Louis XIV did what?
What occurred in 1671 that gave the newly codified court dance a public showcase under the direction of Beauchamps and Jean Baptiste Lully?
Ballet, like spectacles at court, directed the performance toward the sovereign in attendance. What was King Louis XIV’s position in the audience of the theater at Versailles while attending the production of Les Fetes de l’Amouret de Bacchus? What direction was the action oriented with respect to that viewing point?
Chapter 5
Art holds a mirror up to the society that produces it.
The longer an art endures, the more confident we can be that the mirror reveals what with respect to that society?
Japanese Kabuki explores the conflicts that arise between (fill in the blank) and (fill in the blank) in a convention bound society
Both ballet and kabuki are considered “classical” forms because?
What are the basic requirements for classical dance theater?
George Balanchine was the ballet master for the NYC Ballet. As ballet master his responsibilities were to what?
Why was George Balanchine’s choreographic style labeled “neo-classical?”
The ballerinas of the Romantic era symbolized the yearning for release from what?
La Belle au Bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) is one of the standards of the nineteenth-century classical dance. What Western ideal does the ballerina in the title role of Princess Aurora embody?
The story fromLa Belle au Bois Dormant (The Sleeping Beauty) can also be read as what?
“Embodied in the style form and technique of each dance are meanings and values of importance to the dancer and to those that share their world-view.”The ballet dancer’s turnout from the hips (which ensures maximal opening of the body toward the front), the strongly frontal orientation of ballet staging, even the proscenium stage itself can be traced to what?
What meanings and values for Western society are reflected in the 19th century ballet technique (dancing on the toes or en pointe)?
What ballet technique became the hallmark for the 19th century female dancer?
Performers in early court entertainments, whether aristocratic amateurs or trained professionals, were careful never to turn their back on the royal “Presence.” When ballet moved from the ballroom to the theater, the Presence took up residence in the royal box. What technique reflects the strongly frontal orientation for ballet staging that traces its roots back to the European court tradition?
Which tsar brought ballet to Russia?
Using what you know about dance reflecting meanings and values within a society answer the following question: In NYC (1840) Fanny Elssler, Austrian-born star of the Paris Opera Ballet, so embodied this Western ideal that she caused an outbreak of “Elssler-mania.” Admirers fought to drink champagne from her slippers. Watching her dance in Boston, Margaret Fuller said, “This is poetry” to which her companion Ralph Waldo Emerson replied, “No, this is religion.” What Western ideal did Fanny Elssler embody to elicit such a response from Emerson and the men who were stricken with “Elssler-mania?”
Japan’s kabuki theater achieved class status by a diametrically opposite route from that of ballet. By which route did kabuki theater achieve classical status in Japanese society?
What is the original meaning of the word kabuki?
What is the difference between the image of female beauty projected by kabuki verses that of ballet?
In ballet, women always move like women and in kabuki, the women sometimes move like men
What is an onnagata in kabuki theater?
Known for his most famous role in the kabuki classic MasumeDojoji (The Dancing Maiden at Dojo Temple). What type of actor is Bando Tamasaburo?
When Bando Tamasaburo turns his heavily made-up face to the audience while performing in the kabuki classic MusumeDojoji (The Dancing Maiden at Dojo Temple), what is the response of the women in the audience?
Before the recent innovation of kabuki schools, what was the traditional method of training in kabuki theater?
When and why did the government ban women from kabuki theater?
The shoguns built a social order but there was a cost to personal freedom. The social order of the Tokugawa Shogunate “barbarian-subduing great general” rested on the twin pillars of what?
What was the most important virtue under the Tokugawa Shogunate?
For a samurai, which came first, obedience to (fill in the blank)?
Does kabuki theater make a rigid distinction between dance and drama?
Why is the focal point of the kabuki performance different from the focal point in ballet?
Kabuki theater is life imitating art and art imitating life.
How are the meanings and values of a Shogunate-based society reflected in the moral of the stories presented in kabuki theater?
All theater strives for that paradoxical moment when performers and audience share an aesthetic experience that transcends the moment. Classical theater preserves and refines these experiences so that they can be shared (fill in the blank.)
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