Chapter 13

CW13.2 – Tango

• National Public Radio’s Mandalit del Barco discusses Carlos Gardel (1890–1935)
• Carlos Gardel sings “Mi noche triste” (1917)
• Gardel and Alfredo le Pera
• The bandoneon
• There are also numerous Tango documentaries on the Internet.
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CW13.3 – “Por una Cabeza” (“By a Head,” 1935)

Here are various ways to listen to “Por una Cabeza” (“By a Head,” 1935), by Carlos Gardel and Alfredo le Pera

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ygp1UQr2yY

• https://www.amazon.com/Por-una-Cabeza/dp/B01K60JSVK

• It is also featured in several movies movies, including “Scent of a Woman,” (1992; instrumental only)
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CW13.4 – Capoeira

• Mestre Bimba
• Berimbau
• “How Brazilian Capoeira Evolved From a Martial Art to an International Dance Craze,” by Juan Goncalves-Borrega, The Smithsonian Magazine, September, 2017 (try to ignore the advertising)
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CW13.5 – Renaissance Dance

• Overview
• Peruse the links on the Library of Congress Renaissance Dance pages. See if you can learn one.
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CW13.6 – Classical Ballet

• Ballet Terms and FAQs
• Tchaikovsky on ballet
• Search YouTube for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s and Gelsey Kirkland’s classic stage performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Nutcracker, made into a movie in 1977.
• Breaking Barriers in The Nutcracker
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CW13.7 – Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

• A short clip about The Rite of Spring reconstructed, the original choreography and costumes.
• Reconstruction of Nijinski’s choreography of The Rite of Spring performed by the Joffrey Ballet in 1987
• Or search YouTube using: “Rite of Spring” Nijinski reconstruction” or “Rite of Spring Joffrey reconstruction.”
• Search the YouTube for different choreographed versions of Le sacre du printemps and compare them to the reconstruction of the original.
• For more on the Joffrey Ballet’s reconstruction of The Rite of Spring
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CW13.8 – Martha Graham

• Lamentation (1930), with comments and choreography by Martha Graham (1894–1991)
• Martha Graham dancing Copland’s Appalachian Spring in 1944 (choreography by Merce Cunningham). The music was not originally recorded, but was added to this video later.
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CW13.9 – American Popular Dance

• https://www.arthurmurraydancenow.com/blog/most-popular-dance-styles-over-the-past-100-years

• https://aaregistry.org/story/african-american-dance-a-brief-history/

• https://sites.psu.edu/mpassionblog/2018/10/24/swing-dance-jazz-roots-and-african-american-art/

• https://www.thoughtco.com/the-twist-dance-craze-1779369

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