Movement Style

Movement Style

1. AILEY DANCER

   • Hyper flexibility
   • Expressive
   • Athletic
   • Core Strength
   • Combination of styles
     • Ballet Jazz (Cole) Dunham Graham Horton

2. DUNHAM

   • First African-American female choreographer
   • Traditional African
   • Ripples
     • Revelations - Wade in the Water
     • The Hunt
   • Undulation of the spine
     • Wade in the Water Procesion
     • Divining
     • Cry - Section 3
   • Reflects heritage

3. GRAHAM

   • Expressive
     • Hymn
     • For Bird With Love
     • Revelations
     • Cry
     • The Hunt
   • Cupped Hands
     • Sinner Man (Flicks)
   • Contraction
     • Cry Section 2
     • I Been Buked
   • Byson Jump
     • Sinner Man
     • Ending of For Bird With Love
     • Takademe

4. HORTON

   • Coccyx Balance
     • I Wanna Be Ready
     • Witness
   • Lateral T
     • Sinner Man
     • Ending Section of FBWL
   • Bird Arms
     • I Been Buked
     • Hymn
     • Cry (Peacock)
     • Witness

5. JAZZ (Cole)

   • Jazz Pirouettes
     • FBWL
     • Sinner Man
   • Layout
     • End of FBWL
     • Cry (Section 3)
     • Sinner Man
   • High Kicks
     • End of FBWL
     • Sinner Man
     • Hymn
   • Splayed Fingers
     • I Been Buked
     • FBWL
     • Hymn
   • Synchopated Rhythms
     • Divining
     • Club - FBWL
   • Broadway Conventions
     • FBWL
   • Jazz Runs/Low Centre of Gravity
     • Divining

6. BALLET (Shook)

   • Plie
     • I Been Buked
     • Witness
     • The Hunt
     • Cry
     • Divining
   • Attitude
     • FBWL
     • Cry(Arabesque)
     • Witness
     • Sinner Man
   • Balletic footwork
     • FBWL Birth of Sax
     • Sinner Man