body movement tuesday :: dawn

DAWN
Edward Bower Hesser
Among dancers and early motion picture performing community there existed a very strong belief in the ideals of the physical culture movement, of physical perfectibility, bodily beauty, hygiene, and expressive sexuality. Some, Isadora Duncan, Ted Shawn, Annette Kellerman, Margaret Edwards, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., were messianic exhibitionists intent on demonstration to any public that would look the splendor, the human physique.  Edwin Bower Hesser in his own distinctly suspect way latched on to certain of these convictions.  From 1923 until the mid 1930s he edited and supplied imagery for as many as seven art magazines designed for art students concerned with problems of the human form.  His brief stint of study at the Art Institute of Chicago did not entirely elevate his aesthetics from kitsch and artiness to art.  This was, of course, what Duncan and the Greek dance movement was doing at the same time. Dancing in minimal costume in the open air.  Few copies remain of the publications in which Edward printed.  He was not the only supplier of images to these publications.  Included was Alfred Cheney Johnston, John De Mirjian, George DeBarron, and Strand Studio.

body movement tuesday :: capacitor

Capacitor
Performance. Art. Science.
A San Franciso, California group of interdisciplinary movement artists 
that accumulate energy from our technologically impacted culture and 
release it through.  From the movement of the human diaphragm to 
the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic 
manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion -
natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study 
of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as 
well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor 
artists have become masters of rigging systems, coutures of wearable 
sculpture, and engineers of large scale props designed to stretch the 
limits of physical poetry.

body movement :: dancebloggers.com

Cloud Gate


Wayne McGregor


JVC Yesterday


Dance COLEctive

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ida rubinstein

Ida Rubinstein as Salomé



Vaslav Nijinsky and Ida Rubinstein, Scheherazade 1910


Ida Lvovna Rubinstein (5 October 1885 – 20 September 1960) was a famous Russian ballerina, actress, patron and iconic Belle Époque beauty.
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia into a wealthy Jewish family, Rubinstein was orphaned at an early age. She had, by the standard of Russian ballet, little formal training. Under the private tutelage of Mikhail Fokine she debuted in 1909 with a single private performance of Oscar Wilde's Salomé, stripping completely nude in the course of the Dance of the Seven Veils.
Sergei Diaghilev took her with the Ballets Russes and she danced the title role of Cléopâtre in the Paris season of 1909. This performance was as a powerful spectacle, the costumes were designed by Leon Bakst and the finale inspired Kees van Dongen's Souvenir of the Russian Opera Season 1909.
excerpt take from Ida Rubinstein

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whirling beauties :: green dancers

Philandanco


Alvin Ailey


William Trevitt and Michael Nunn


Benjamin Wardell


Green Dancers
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whirling beauties :: dance bloggers

Emio Greco




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a kiss in history of cabaret

scene from The Blue Angel

Wintergarten, Berlin

Cabaret
A form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance,
and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue -
a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances
and the audience sitting at tables (often dining or drinking),
watching the performance being introduced by a 
master of ceremonies.

Cabaret also refers to a Mediterranean-style brothel -
a bar with tables and women who mingle with and 
entertain the clientele.  Traditionally these establishments 
can also feature some form of stage entertainment: 
often singers and dancers.

The first cabaret was opened in 1881 in Montmartre, Paris:
Rodolphe Salís' "cabaret artistique."  Shortly after it
was founded, it was renamed Le Chat Noir.  It became a 
locale in which up-and-coming cabaret artists could try 
their new acts.

The Moulin Rouge, built in 1889 in the red-light district 
of Pigalle near Montmartre, is famous for the large, 
red imitation windmill on its roof.

The Cabaret 1921 :: A.A. Deineka

 
















 

The Folies-Bergère continued to attract a large number 
of people even though it was more expensive than other 
cabarets.  People felt comfortable at the cabaret.  They did 
not have to take off their hat, could talk, eat, and smoke 
when they wanted to, etc.  They did not have to stick to 
the usual rules of society.  At the Folies-Bergère, as in many 
cafés-concerts, there were a variety of acts: singers, dancers, 
jugglers, and clowns.

In the United States, cabaret diverged into several different 
styles of performance mostly due to the influence of 
Jazz Music.  Chicago cabaret focused intensely on the larger 
band ensembles and reached its peak in the of the 
Prohibition Era.

Cabaret is currently undergoing a renaissance of sorts
in the United States, particularly in New Orleans, Seattle 
and Portland, as new generations of performers reinterpret 
the old forms in both music and theatre.