There are famous dancers who have stood out throughout their careers for the technique they have achieved and the beauty of their movements. In our history, we could say that dance has been conceived as the ability to compose with the movement of the body. With these movements dance figures are created, which in turn create the work itself, a composition defined choreography.
Since ancient times, the Greek culture had the concept of art linked to the movement of the body with a natural inertia, in turn motivated by the auditory perception of the individual. With this idea, the dancers were also taken as representatives of the human being in relation to religion or spirituality.
Later, back in the seventeenth century, Louis XIV of France officially introduced and ratified ballet as an entertainment dance for the upper classes and, in turn, as a very representative part of the fine arts in Western Europe..
Since then, the concept and meaning with which dancers entertained their spectators remained unchanged until, at the beginning of the 20th century, contemporary dance and modern dance appeared as new disciplines based on ballet. These, unleashed in a large number of free styles of dance, giving rise to an expressionist current of this art.
Here is a list of 20 dancers (men and women), including some of the most famous in history and today.-
Known as Loïe Fuller, she began in the world of art at the hands of the theater and later as a burlesque dancer.
She is one of the many women of the early twentieth century considered forerunners of modern dance and stood out for her colorful choreographies and marked by large and loose dresses made of silk..
It could be said that she is one of the creators and forerunners of modern dance. Some have even baptized her as "Mother of Modern Dance". She was a woman activist and defender of women's rights, thinker, a great choreographer and dance teacher.
He did not want to follow the steps and forms of classical dance, developing a new type of dance, natural and with fresh and free movements. He defended the pure expression of feelings through dance.
This dance teacher, one of the best known dancers in modern dance, was a native of Germany, where she studied with Mary Wigman. He lived in New York since the early 30s, and there he was in charge of the management of one of the first dance schools, dedicated to teaching the Wigman technique and Laban's principles and theories.
Thanks to loose movements of the back and torso, he highlighted the fluidity and freedom of his dances, with a technique born of physical movement and improvisation..
Of American origin, he defended that modern dance was not pure inventiveness, but rather discovering the development of original and primitive principles.
The different and pronounced way in which she contracted and relaxed her muscles, together with the control with which she landed on the ground, was the personal signature for which she was recognized..
Being one of the North American “Big Four”, he was able to develop his work focused on the expression of gravity, thanks to the company he founded in 1929 together with the choreographer and dancer Doris Humphrey.
His new personal style did not match what he learned at the Denishawn school where he learned, nor did it have much to do with classical ballet, from which he gradually moved away as he established his own way of expression..
Creator of a trend known as "free flow", he is one of the dancers and choreographers that still influences modern dance in modern times. He was the husband of one of the greats of that time, Martha Graham, with whom he joined in the dance company where they both performed for several years..
In the 50s, Erick created his own dance school and dance company, where he unleashed his creative fantasies, including mind, soul and body in shows without muscular load, with which he saw meditation possible through this art.
Anthropologist and known as "Matriarch and Queen of the Black Dance", she was the creator of the African-American dance. He studied different dances from the Caribbean, specifically from Haiti. By incorporating these ramifications into his works, they were qualified as pioneering modern Afro-American dances..
Víctor Ullate (Zaragoza, May 9, 1947) is a dancer, choreographer and director of Spanish dance shows. He has directed works since 1988 and won various dance awards in Spain.
Frederick Austerlitz, better known as Fred Astaire, was an American actor, singer, choreographer, stage and film dancer, and television host.
Modern in style, Jackson's choreographies are remembered as some of the most influential in pop culture.
Let's now review some of the most famous dances and choreography in history:
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