Blues Suite - Alvin Ailey INFLUENCES

Blues Suite - Alvin Ailey INFLUENCES

1. Jack Cole

   • Theatrical Jazz Dance
   • Key movement
     • Low plie
       • And use of gravity
     • smooth transitions of weight from foot to foot, a slinky, sensual feel
     • cat-like, or animalistic
     • Isolations

2. Karel Shook

   • Balletic
   • Classical
   • Plies and arabesques
   • Pas de deux

3. Stella Adler

   • Theatrical Drama and acting
   • Facial expression and body language
   • stage presence and character

4. Lester Horton

   • principles of total theatre
   • Parallel lines
   • Body tilt
   • Straight back

5. Martha Graham

   • contraction
   • inverted palms
   • lifts

6. George Balanchine

   • spatial expansion
   • musical syncopation
   • extreme speed
   • deep plie
   • Pirouettes en dehors taken from a lunge in fourth position rather than the conventional plié in fourth
   • Emphasis on line, with use of unconventional, asymmetrical, abstract arm and hand placement
   • athletic dance quality

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