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They developed a dance called the fox-trot, with ceeding generations ofimmigrants. music provided by their (African-American) bandleader, However, truly indigenous American dance styles— James Reese Europe, which launched the craze for "ani like most great American artforms—were mainly derived mal" dances inthe later teens and 1920s: the turkey trot, through thewedding of European andAfrican-American bunny hug, andcountless others. The Charleston, with its traditions. The first true American dance style was proba syncopated 4/4 rhythm, became the most popular dance bly clog dancing, which evolved from Irish step dancing craze ofthejazz age 1920s and African-American dance styles that imitated animal Meanwhile, black vaudevillians had developed clog movements.

Computer. ) Yet in the seminal Agon Balanchine also remained loyal to the350-year-old idiom ofclassical ballet. Hetransformed it and extended it into a contemporary language but respected it as a grammar of movement. Unlike Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham, he rejected the idea ofa personalized danceidiom. Tradition was the springboard for his innovation. That he used toe shoes and a centuries-oldvocabulary did not make him old fashioned. Even today his focus on pure dance, steps and structure, is too rigorous for Balanchine became Balanchine as we know him 1918.

Graham is better remembered today, butbothGraham andHumphrey were leaders inthe 19 masks and body extensions), and sets by the choreogra pher—in the 1950s. His lead dancer, Murray Louis (b. 1926), also became a leading choreographer. Graham was a Cage—who had thestrongest impact on successive gen dramatic dancer who absorbed the psychological interests erations ofdancers. In theearly 1960s, a group ofdancers ofWigman indances like her"Primitive Mysteries" (1935), in New York, primarily working outoftheJudson Church, featuring a setbysculptor Isamu Noguchi.

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