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The Art of Making Dances

In Doris Humphrey, "The Art of Making Dances", she elaborates on her thoughts of movement in dance. She first explains how dance has expanded over time. She expresses her feelings on the kinds of individuals that should be granted the opportunity to be choreographers. She feels that choreographers need to know their body, have and opened mind, observant, sensitive. They need to consume traits of inspiring nature, imaginative, dramatic ability, articulate, and musically literate. She further talks about subject matter. A piece that one creates should have meaning behind it, even if the audience doesn't quit understand.
As the book proceeds she describes the different kinds of structures one could pursue. Symmetry and Asymmetry are the two categories of design that are defined. They also can be oppositional and successional designs. Her meaning for this is to show balanced and unbalanced structures. Then to continue the craft of dancing, she offers new......

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