Monday, November 7, 2016

Looking at Movement as Culture: Contact Improvisation to Disco



What an explanation of the cultural history and anthropology. In the beginning of the reading, I was doubting myself “Am I reading about the Disco dance? I was confused thinking that I was reading an article of the science book. Then as I read the article, I agreed with the author’s thoughts about how we as a dance researcher can and able to understand the mind by paying attention to what might lie behind the movements and the body of the theme of the dance. Just as the opening of the article described of the television movie show how a “brain death” and “body death” were combined to a new person’s identity which recognized by the husband of the “body death” wife. Therefore, even though the miracle woman was in different body, they reunited and live happily ever after (Bull 404).

Movement is less obvious than language. It is developed through the personal identity and social relationship in more inclusive and ambiguous without structures. It can be noticed by the people who are related to the either Natives and the educated on history. The movements of the improvisation began in 1972 by experimenting weigh improvisationally in giving and taking with spontaneous and free- flowing movements. It became to spread in USA, Canada, Europe dance in social and performance form. It is more popular today than mid- to late seventies (bull 405-406).
The touch and mutual control contact dance form of improvisational dance changed as the Disco dancers took more controlled of the partnership either with male with male, and male with female, female with female free to exchange in a given support anytime as the traditional form of social dance. Disco dance is more being controlled because relating through partner through site and one-way manipulation. Moreover, Disco dance became rock dancing with self-displaying and partnering with opposite sex. The movements were more personalized, posed, more outwardly and presentational focusing on their partner. Direct expressional disco dance was popular seventies and eighties of the social and created metaphors for the many American men and women see themselves (Bull 410-413). The author’s thoughts about how we as a dance researcher can and able to understand the mind by paying attention to what might lie behind the movements and the body of the theme of the dance. Final thought of looking at characteristic movement as culture of contact improvisation and Disco dance revealed the human need to express in movements as who we are.


 A performance merging dance and biology | Pilobolus

John Travolta Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees "You Should be Dancing"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSVSbdmrT0U

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