Choreographyχορεία γραφή

Key Factors

Martha Graham 1894-1991

• “Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”

Agnes de Mille 1905-1993

• “To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”

Rudolf Laban 1879-1958

Merce Cunningham 1919-2009

• “There’s no thinking involved in my choreography. . .I don’t work through images or ideas. I work through the body. . .If the dancers dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing.”

Kate Jablonski

Motif Development

Motif Manipulation

• Repetition

• Retrograde

• Inversion

• Expansion

• Tempo changes

• Rhythm

• Quality

• Force

• Levels

• Fragmentation

• Combination

Costume

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