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Françoise Adret
Françoise Adret (7 August 1920 – 1 April 2018) was a French ballet dancer, teacher, Choreography (dance), choreographer, and company director. Her professional career, international in scope, albeit centered in France, spanned more than sixty years. She was recognized as one of the most innovative creators of contemporary dance in western Europe. Biography and career Born in Versailles (city), Versailles, Adret began her dance training at an early age. In the 1930s she studied with the leading Franco-Russian teachers in Paris, including Victor Gsovsky, Madame Rousanne (Rousanne Sarkissian) and Serge Lifar. In the late 1940s, following World War II, she had a modest career with the Paris Opera Ballet, making a notable appearance at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in 1948 in a principal role in Lifar's production of ''Le Pas d'Acier'' ("The Steel Step"), a modern ballet about Soviet factory workers set to a score in ''le style mécanique'' by Prokofiev. From Lifar, director o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Choreography (dance)
Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer creates choreographies through the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing. It most commonly refers to dance choreography. In dance, ''choreography'' may also refer to the design itself, sometimes expressed by means of dance notation. Dance choreography is sometimes called ''dance composition''. Aspects of dance choreography include the compositional use of organic unity, rhythmic or non-rhythmic articulation, theme and variation, and repetition. The choreographic process may employ improvisation to develop innovative movement ideas. Generally, choreography designs dances intended to be performed as concert dance. The art of choreography involves specifying human movement and form in terms of space, shape, time, and energy, typically within an emo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
