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SESSIONS Phrasing as an indicator of Choreographic Style by Vera Maletic, USA Lecture-demonstration Yvonne Rainer saw phrasing as an indicator of changes from modern to postmodern dance, and anthropologist Anya Peterson Royce put forward a hypothesis that innovative choreographers who introduced new styles did so by lengthening or shortening the dance phrase typical of their dance tradition. The proposed project intends to probe these observations by means of comparative analyses. Two seminal works - Yvonne Rainer's Trio A, and Nijinski's Afternoon of a Faun - will be juxtaposed to the tradition from which they broke away. While Rainer's work rebelled against the "artifice" of performance in Graham oriented and also Humphrey's work, Nijinsky rebelled against a different kind of artifice he perceived in Michael Fokine's work - that of desubjectified emotion. A comparative anaysis of phrasing annotations of parts of the following scores will examine these trends: Trio A vs. Two Ecstatics Themes by Doris Humphrey and Afternoon of a Faun V. Nijinsky vs. Le Spectre de la Rose by Michael Fokine The results of the investigation will be discussed and illustrated using DVD-Video projections. Vera Maletic is professor emerita at the Ohio State University. She earned her M.A. from the University of Zagreb, Croatia (history of art and culture), Ph.D. from OSU (interdisciplinary), and the Laban Diploma from the Laban Centre in England. At The OSU's department of dance (1980 - 2000), she spearheaded the dance and technology area, including Videodance and approaches to CD-ROM for dance documentation. She was primary co-researcher in two multimedia projects funded by the National Initiative to Preserve America's Dance. Maletic is the author of Body-Space-Expression: The Development of Rudolf Laban's Movement and Dance Concepts, published by Mouton de Gruyter in 1987, and she recently published Dance Dynamics: Effort and Phrasing with a companion DVD-Video. Currently she divides her time between activities in Columbus and Zagreb, Croatia. This includes consulting, bilingual writing and projects in dance documentation by means of technology.
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