DAN 2100: Dance Appreciation / Dance in the Humanities

Ball Scene from the movie Marie-Antoinette

The Banqueting House - Whitehall London
TRILION PICTURES (1987)

Pakarena is a traditional court dance of the Makassar region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. In the 20th century, the dance moved out of the court to became a popular form of entertainment. It is now still occasionally performed at a variety of ceremonies including marriages, curing rituals, and circumcisions. In pakarena, energetic, even frenetic drumming accompanies the extremely slow and graceful dance movements of young women. In this pakarena, two-headed drums (gandrang) and a double-reed oboe (puik-puik) accompany two dancers.

The court dance, referred to in Korea as chong-jae, is a general form pervaded most of them and is still manifest in many of the court dances extant today. The court dance was designad to be an elegant spectacle, sometimes employing as many 200 or more performers.

Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) presents a one-of-a-kind glimpse of ballet from today and yesterday. The film is hosted by “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance” Executive Producer, Nigel Lythgoe, and stars leading figures from the world of ballet. Dancers such as Stella Abrera, Isabella Boylston, Skylar Brandt, Marcelo Gomes, Veronika Part and Hee Seo from American Ballet Theater, Taras Domitro and Maria Kochetkova of San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet favorites Ashley Bouder and Daniel Ulbricht, Matthew Golding of Dutch National Ballet, Alejandro Virelles of Boston Ballet and Greta Hodgkinson of National Ballet of Canada perform iconic roles from the classical repertoire including Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Giselle, Flames of Paris and Don Quixote.

This perennial favorite draws on E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Christmas fantasy, in which a young girl finds herself caught up in a night of magical adventures. Tchaikovsky’s well-known score, the exquisite choreography, and entrancing imagery combine to create one of the most popular ballets in the world.

(2006) Choreographed by Dwight Rhoden
Lighting Design By Michael Korsch

"Orchestral Suite No. 1 In C Major : Bourrées 1 & 2" by Various Artists recorded at the Joyce Theatre.

Beautiful blue sky +Richard Serra +Trisha Brown Dance Company at Jardin des Tuileries/Louvre, Paris. July 28th, 2008.

Island Moving Company production. "Kevin Volans - Hunting: Gathering (1987) (String Quartet No. 2) No. 1" by Kronos Quartet.

The story portrays to us how the gypsy gathers to dance and sing about their pain and suffering.(02:34)

Capoeira is a combination of martial arts and acrobatics that was developed by slaves and disguised as a dance. Today, it's still a popular Brazilian activity.

A beautiful capoeira girl meets a boy from an opposing club. Like her he is a devastatingly fit and highly trained capoeirista. A beguiling fighting dance for capoeira dominance ensues. A short film by LENA.

Acrobatic dancers in th street of Rome: hip hop music dance. Three boys performe an amazing hip hop dance.

A performance from season 11 from contestant Jasmine and allstar Comfort. Hip Hop routine to Beyonce's "Run the World (Girls)".

Massive Monkees vs Jinjo Crew
| R16 BBOY Battle 2012 | YAK FILMS

This documentary explores the history and scope of the hip-hop dance style. The movement is also studied as a global marketing phenomenon. Despite its popularity, hip-hop struggles to define its historical lineage, concept, origins, aesthetics, and generational acceptance. Discover how it was first introduced to mainstream America in the early 1970s as break dancing (or b-boying).

Using archive footage, this film explores the relationship between dance and the camera and how they grew up together. The range goes from an 1896 “Danse serpentine” to a live cinema of Mahler 3 in 2013 while choreographers and dancers comment on what film and television means to them. TV producer Bob Lockyer and dance critic Clement Crisp present and comment on some of the most fascinating footage you will ever see.