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- W2326291260 abstract "Water Study, choreographed by Doris Humphrey in 1928, is described by dance writer Marcia B. Siegel as “still one of the most extraordinary works in American dance.” One of Humphrey's earliest works, it was created during the period in which American modern dancers Humphrey, Charles Weidman, and Martha Graham broke away from the ersatz ethnicity of Denishawn to begin choreographing their own works. “As small and strange as it is,” Siegel continues, “Water Study is a masterpiece of the choreographic art”.The piece begins with ten to twelve dancers crouched low on the floor, scattered throughout the stage area, and all facing stage right. They slowly rise and sink in canon, as though a wave passed over them and back again. The movement grows until it brings them onto their feet: they separate and rush toward one another, leaping and falling like waves splashing together and subsiding. Then, grouped together, they surge back and forth from one side of the stage to the other like shifting tides. One cluster of dancers breaks away while another leaps, turns, and falls, forming a progressive, whirl-pool-like spiral to the floor. A side-to-side rocking motion gradually brings the dancers into unison as they spread throughout the stage area again. They return to the crouching position and ripple upward again in one last splash before finishing with a slow crawling action that leaves them prone like the last remnant of a wave creeping up the shore.Water Study focuses attention on movement by minimizing other theatrical elements. The dance does not tell a story; it is performed in silence with no scenery; lighting changes are minimal; and dancers are costumed in plain, flesh-colored leotards. Although these kinds of choices tell their own story, as will be examined later, they serve to “turn the volume up” on the movement “channel” of communication." @default.
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- W2326291260 title "Studying Water Study" @default.
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