POOR DANCE: RE-THINKING MODERN DANCE BIRTH IN THE UNITED STATES.

Authors

  • Sarahí Lay Trigo Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz. Postdoctoral fellowship of Conacyt Mexico.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.104344

Abstract

Eluding the classic work Poor Theater by Jerzy Grotowski (2004) and his Theatrical Laboratory, this essay understand the emergence of modern dance in the United States as a way of doing poor dance. This is so, because the movement promoted by the creators of modern dance offers us incredible similarities with the principles that Grotowksi formulated later for the actors. Thus, poor theatre and modern dance are two movements that, despite having emerged in different spaces and times, are similar in their way of investigating and conceiving art. Its greatest similarities are found in the following principles: 1) Art as a negative path; 2) Art as poverty; 3) Art as spiritual encounter. To carry out this analogy, this work will be based the approach in two dimensions of a historic-biographic perspective. First, the historic, will described the social context that promoted this new style of dance. Second, the biographic, that will analyze the biographies of three of the principal exponents of the first generation of modern dance, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn.

 

Keywords

Poor Dance. Modern Dance. Poor Theatre. Dance History.

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Author Biography

Sarahí Lay Trigo, Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Santa Cruz. Postdoctoral fellowship of Conacyt Mexico.

PhD in Education.Master in Management and Policies of Higher Education from the University of Guadalajara. Degree in Communication Sciences. Member of the International Dance Council CID, Unesco. Researcher in Anthropology and Dance. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Her current research line is Dance Anthropology and Philosophy. Her postdoctoral research focuses in Mexican folkloric dancers at the United States.

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Published

2021-04-20

How to Cite

Lay Trigo, S. (2021). POOR DANCE: RE-THINKING MODERN DANCE BIRTH IN THE UNITED STATES. Revista Cena, (33), 167–176. https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.104344

Issue

No. 33 (2021): Dossiê Arte e Trauma

Section

Artigos Extradossiê

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