The freestyle dance class of Eugene Loring

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Eugene Loring founded the American School of Dance in Los Angeles in 1947 and introduced a hybrid, exploratory dance movement technique called freestyle. Loring's dance training syllabus includes techniques which are an innovative attempt to integrate the essences of ballet, modern, jazz and other ethnic forms of dance-a search to discover the common elements among various dance forms and develop a shared language among the disparate cultural traditions.

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Generational conflict and the foundation of the Academie Royale de Danse: a reexamination

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The construction of the Academie Royale de Danse in 1661 remains an important event in the legitimation of dance as a discipline with both artistic and scholarly lineage. The Roi des Violins, or head of musicians guild challenged it, to prevent the registration at Parlement of the Academie's lettres patentes.

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Body poetics of hip hop dance styles in Copenhagen

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Hip hop dance is an embodied process of interrelatedness with self and surroundings, a symbolic art form of life expression. The body techniques, function, and culture, emphasizing every body movement that has its own form and style is described.

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