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Sorry for the scatalogical intro, but otherwise I have nothing even slightly interesting to say about the video game music extravaganza Video Games Live, and its announcement that it has 40 new your dates in the U.S. and overseas for 2008. I just have talking about poop. Tell you what?check out all the tour dates after the jump, and then let’s both move on before I embarrass myself further. (Via Gamespy)
SHOW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Orlando, FL January 24, 2008 Hard Rock Live Otronicon
St. Louis, MO January 26, 2008 Fox Theater
Montreal, QC February 7, 2008 St. Denis Theatre
Montreal, QC February 8, 2008 St. Denis Theatre
Toronto, ON February 9, 2008 Massey Hall
FT. Wayne, IN February 15, 2008 Embassy Theatre Ft. Wayne Phil
Edmonton, AB February 17, 2008 Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
San Francisco, CA February 22, 2008 Nob Hill Masonic Center GDC
Milwaukee, WI March 1, 2008 Riverside Theater Milwaukee Symphony
Phoenix, AZ March 7, 2008 Maricopa Center Phoenix Symphony
Mexicali, Mexico March 15, 2008 Plaza Calafia Bullring
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Ogden, UT March 27, 2008 Browning Arts Center Utah Symphony
Salt Lake City, UT March 28, 2008 Abravanel Hall Utah Symphony
Salt Lake City, UT March 29, 2008 Abravanel Hall Utah Symphony
New York City, NY April 26, 2008 Beacon Theatre MSG Entertainment
Las Vegas, NV June 14, 2008 Henderson Pavilion Las Vegas Phil.
Austin, TX July 11, 2008 Long Center Austin Symphony
Austin, TX July 12, 2008 Long Center Austin Symphony
Louisville, KY July 18, 2008 Kentucky Center for Arts Louisville Orchestra
San Diego, CA July 24, 2008 Embarcadero Marina Park San Diego Symphony
Taipei, Taiwan August 9, 2008 Pan-Chiao Stadium
Taipei, Taiwan August 10, 2008 Pan-Chiao Stadium
Leipzig, Germany August 20, 2008 ARENA Leipzig Games Convention
Birmingham, AL October 9, 2008 Jefferson Conv. Complex Alabama Symphony
Vancouver, BC October 29, 2008 Orpheum Theatre Vancouver Symphony
Carnival Cruise Ship November 14, 2008 Normandy Lounge NAVIGaTR Cruise
Seattle, WA January 24, 2009 Paramount Theatre
Exact dates and venues for the following cities are to be announced (TBA) shortly:
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Anaheim, CA Atlanta, GA Boston, MA Brazil (multiple cities) Dallas, TX Glasgow, Scotland Houston, TX Indianapolis, IN Los Angeles, CA Milan, Italy Paris, France Shanghai, China Winnipeg, MB
All past, current and future tour dates and ticket information can be found at: www.videogameslive.com/dates
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All lot of you raise a point about the X-Men Origins:
Hideo Kojima, Guillermo del Toro and Norman Reedus! It’s the Silent Hills Teaser
Yeah, this is name-dropping - but I worked with Norman Reedus
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Who created neo-classical ballet?
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George Blanchine
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who was hired by diaghilev to choreograph for ballet russe
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george balanchine
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who had a life long collaboration with musician stravinsky?
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george balanchine
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created Apollo 1928
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george balanchine
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He met lincoln kristen and she convinced him to move to the US. After diaghilev died this guy was touring around europe.
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george balanchine
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Who's style is this? -ballet grounded in music -most ballets were without a polot, some narrative and mood pieces -no strong characters or emotions -simple spacial groupings
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george balanchine
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whos style is this? -fast brillant foot work, speed, endurance -body type small head, long arms and legs -women are ballet -see the music, hear the dance -leotards, minimalist -feet parellel -moving through space in point or flats -different arm positions
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george balanchine
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Established a ballet school to train dancers in his technique. 'School of American Ballet'
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george balanchine
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-established smaller pick up companies -choregoraphed over 17 broadway shows -did musical theatre 0went to hollywood, did movies and circus
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george balanchine done in us
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Established New York City Ballet Company
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balanchine
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-began in 1948 as part of new york city center -created a ballet company that believed that ballet is an art which the visual spectacle is the essential element -wanted to create impression of intensity and beauty -choregoraphed 300 ballets in his lifetime
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george balanchine and his new york city ballet company
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Apollo 1928 western symphony 1954 jewels 1965 union jack 1976
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balanchine dances
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-first significant american choregrapher -trained in variety of styles: ballet, spanish, modern -wide vocab movement -choregraphy about emotional relationships -more psychological than pure tecnical, unlike balanchine
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jerome robbins
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Fancy free -in 1944 during world war 2 -composer 'leonard bernstein' -a jazz ballet, light in mood
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jerome robbins
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afternoon of faun -in 1953 -reworking of the nijinsky classic -set in dance studio, 2 dancers
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jerome robbins
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Jerome robbins has a
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trust
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Factors of ________ dance development -wanted to rebell against ballet -explore middle of body -bare feet -treatment of space as 3d -use free swinging motion of whole bodey -expressses feelings and ideas -individual is key
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modern
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Developed eurthymics, a system of rhythmic analysis of music using the body. does not have emotional content. used as a techniquie for strengthing dancers. not dance
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created by emile dalcroze (1865-1950)
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-American dancer-rejected ballet -most successes were in europe and russia before world war 1 -stood for an expressive, heroic kind of dance
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Isadora Duncan
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1. movement sprang from emotional exspression 2. body and soul harmonious, dancing the freedom of women 3. called her art the renassance of the greek ideal 4. movement vocab, natural breathing, running, skipping, simple movement 5. themes of humanism, feminism, populism
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isadora duncan
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-the mother of modern dance -influenced by dances of asia and middle east -began in theatre, driven by worldly passions and spirtuality -wanted a partner
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ruth st. denis
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-1877-1968 -theatricality and music visualization -'incense' 'white jade' 'nautch dance' -theatricality: set design, costume
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ruth st. denis
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-1891-1972 -ruth st. denis partner from 1914-1930 -created denishawn school and company -toured in us and overseas -introduced dance to america is a more populist way
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ted shawn
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gnosienne, a solo for
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ted shawn
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-first school in LA, run by ted -ecletric dance curriculum: ballet, dances of other countries, yoga, music theory, eurthymics, makeup , music visualization, drapery. -famous students: martha graham, doris humphrey, charles weidman, jack cole
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Denishawn school and company
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-shawn left denis is 1931 and moved to western MA -started male modern dance comapny 1933-1940 -set out to change how males were regarded in the world of dance -themes for dancesL war, labor, sport, male heoric figures -mostly preformed in summer
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Jacobs pillow run by ted shawn
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-gave high level of theatricality and costume -ethnic dances -fostered idea of music visualization -wonderful gift for movement and performance
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ruth st denis
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-fostered idea that man had place in dance world -used american life in dance -lasting legacy at jacobs pillow -
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ted shawn
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High Priestess of modern dance
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martha graham
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-1926 first independent choreography concert at 32 -development with relationship between louis horst, personal and professional -development of graham style and technique
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martha graham
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-breath contraction, release -sense of weight going to the floor, using hips and knees as a hinge -flexed foot, parallel movements -no rounded port de bras -function of dance was to communicate! -sparse, no ornamenations -sets: sculptural, symbolic (Isamu Naguchi) -music: comissioned and original (Arnold Copland)
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graham technique of martha graham
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Lamentation-1930 El penitente-1940s Appalachian Spring-1944 Errand into the Maze-1950 Maple leaf Rag-1990
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marth graham dances
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-summer study program that developed the modern dance movement in the 1930s. -four major dance pioneers taught and choreograhped there: martha graham, doris humphrey, charles weidman, hanya holm
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Bennington College
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-first male to join martha graham company -had personal and professional relationship with her for 12 years -el penitente-first dance choreographed for him
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Erik Hawkins
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The Humanists of modern dance
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doris humphrey, charles weidman
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____________'s technique -central idea: fall and recovery -moving between equilibrium and gravity -explored basic elements of dance: time space, weight, energy -made dance independent of music -structure: formal process of choreography -abstract ideas could be danced
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doris humphrey technique
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-keen observer of physcial and emotional behavior -curiousity about the body -non-verbal thinker -good eye and sensitive ear -musically literate -speed, resourcefulness and judgement -language skill-articulate verbally (also spends summers at benningtons)
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Doris Humphrey
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-one of the first modern dances in extended length -symphonic in structure -abstract in concept -the message of disunity, disorder, speratisim, and organization
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New Dance by Doris Humphrey
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Day on Earth -originally choreographed for Jose Limona, former company member -described as an exquisite pastarale of family lfe. with both pain and joy
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day on earth by doris humphrey
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-true comic in dance, gifted in humor and mime -called his choreography 'kinetic pantomime' which involved neither storing telling gesture nor other conventions of a narrative -collaborated with doris humphrey and helped develop movement technique
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Charles Weidman
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-student of rudolf van laban-inventor of laba notation. -part of german exspressionalism movement -space: kinesphere
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mary wigman
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Characterstics of ________'s dance -primitive, symbolic themes -female as an outsider -mvements were low, crawling, kneeling,courching, -focus is down -strong intense movement -often danced to percussion -dances reflected apolcalptic state of society
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mary wigman
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-student of mary wigman - came to 1931 to set up branch of wigman's school -
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hanya holm
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________'s philosophy of dance -study of movement of body: gravity, momentum -space conciousness -dancers challenged as an individual
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hanya holm
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-one of the four modern dance pioneers at bennington summer dance festival -'trend' first dance to gain public attention -became a broadway choreographer in later career -kiss me kate, my fair lady, camelot -esablished own summer school in colorado springs
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Hanya Holm
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-began dance later in life...wanted to be a painter -disciple of doris humphrey, began working with her in 1930. -after WW2, went off on his own and doris humphrey became his artistic director
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Jose Limon
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-exspressive conflict with music -based on shakespheres othello -in ABABA form -4 characters -use of gestures
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The Moors Pavanne 1949 Jose Limon
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-worked with martha graham -broke with the avant garde choreographers in the mid century -interested in more accessible dancess, more in lineage of limon and humphrey - uses modern or ballet vocab -espressive qualities, sensitivity to music
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Paul Taylor
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Esplanade -uses pedestrain movement -uses baroque music, highly structured -reiterates a point made by george balanchine, the mere presense of characters on stage suggests plot. -sense of dancers as a community
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Esplanade by Paul Taylor
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Snow White -use of comedy+ parody -costuming like disney -innovative movement for dwarves -stage space, limited to floor cloth -narrative sotry telling
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Paul Taylor
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-rebellion of conventional dance -too many imitators of pioneers -dance became empty, mechanical -social changes: vietnam, hippie stuff -happenings
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why dance changed in 60's
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-father of avant garde modern dance -began career with martha graham, left after 5 years to start own company -john cage, significant other as well as musical collaborator
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Merce Cunningham
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__________'s choreography -dances were about movement, no emotion, abstract, not done in time to music -no formal principle of dance, composition up to dice rolls and chance -'rainforest' 'points in space' 'split sides'
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Merce Cunningham
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-studied with hanya holm -was primarily a musician, gradually added movement to his music -an early experimenter in electronic music alsong with John cage -he did it all,choreographing, music lighting...etc
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Alwin Nikolais
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-motion, not emotion -content lies in the art form, not in dramatic, psychological, or emotional statement -abstract design over emotional communication -designs all aspects of production -often dances appear unisex -structured dances 'gallery'
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Alwin Nikolais
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-want to reduce dance to pedestrian movements -discover what dance is -elimmating theme, story line -development of alternative spaces: street, loft
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Judson Dance Theatre
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_____ modern choreographers -david gordan: member of judson dance theatre -Trio A -Twyla Tharp -Pilobolus
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post
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'An audience with the pope' 'Yvonne Rainer'
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David Gordon
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Pedestrain and task oriented material, post modern dance
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trio A
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Retrograde, inversions, and reverse. 'In the upper room' 'The catherine wheel'
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Twyla Tharp
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choreographing collaboratively, begain in dartmouth college in early 70's
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Pilobolus
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Text introduced during post modern dance era, _____ ____ as an example
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david gordan
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Post-post modern dance choreographer. Had musicality, compared to balanchine, used variety of dance languages
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Mark Morris
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Post-post modern dance choreographer, pushing the boundries on ateleticism and theatricality
