Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-25wd4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-26T10:16:24.964Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Popular Dance as the Embodied Expression of Musical Patterns and of Costume Design: The Case of Rallou Manou's Choreography on Hadjidakis’ Music and Yiannis Moralis’ Costumes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2016

Abstract

Does music “embody” the dancing movement? Or does (and if yes, how does) popular dance embody musical patterns and costume designs? On the one hand, dance and music curricula in universities and schools of dance in Greece consider music and dance mostly as coexisting and—in a superficial way—collaborating arts. They rarely refer to the “corporalization” of music, nor do they examine the relation between dance and other involving arts of a performance, such as painting and costume design. It should also be noticed that interdisciplinary creative collaboration between music and dance (and also other arts) was achieved in 1950s. This paper will try to explain how popular dance can reflect costume design and the patterns of music, and lead to a creative collaboration among these arts. For the performances of the Greek Chorodrama (Manou's Dancetheater Company), the composer, the painter, the writer, and the choreographer worked at the same time, interactively; Rallou Manou “translated” the traditional and modern elements of each art into movement, while Manos Hadjidakis (Oscar awarded composer) and Yiannis Moralis (well-known Greek painter) gave to the music, sets, and costumes a “corporal dimension,” correspondingly. As a result, the final “product” was a united, inseparable cultural event, which exceeded the dance performance and became a cultural product, with further aesthetic, artistic, pedagogical, and social value.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Renata Dalianoudi 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Works Cited

Anoghianakis, Fivos. 1991. Hellinika laika mousika organa. [Greek Folk Musical Instruments.] Athens: MELISSA Publishing.Google Scholar
Aristotle. 1982. Piitiki. Translated by Dromazos, Srathis. Athens: Kedros Publishing.Google Scholar
Au, Susan. 1995. Ballet and Modern Dance. London: Thames and Hudson.Google Scholar
Bazianas, Nikos. 1999. Ghia tin laiki mousiki mas paradosi. [For Our Folk Musical Tradition]. Athens: Typothito Publishing.Google Scholar
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Chevrier, J. 2003. “The Adventures of the Picture Form in the History of Photography.” In The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960–1982, edited by Fogle, D.. Minneapolis: Walker Art Centre. 113129.Google Scholar
Fessa-Emmanouil, Eleni, ed. 2004. Horos ke theatro. [Dance and Theatre.] Athens: Efessos.Google Scholar
Fried, M. 2008. Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.Google Scholar
Lyra, Anastasia. 2001. “I yperanaptiksi tis formas stin ypanaptiksi tou syghronou chorou.” [“The hyper-evolution of the form in the sub-evolution of the modern danse”] in Epilogos [Epilogue], Αthens Google Scholar
Marshall, Lorna. 2003. To soma mila. Zitimata erminias ke ekfrasis. [The Body Speaks. Matters of Interpretence and Expression]. Translated by Pipini, Α. and Prodromidou, Ν.. Athens: ΚΟΑΝ.Google Scholar
Ong, Walter. 1988. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. New York: Methuen.Google Scholar
Sifakis, Grigoris. 1988. Ghia mia piitiki tou ellinikou dimotikou tragoudiou. [For a Poetic of the Greek Folk Song]. Crete:Heraklion University Press.Google Scholar
Stamatopoulou-Vassilakou, Chrisothemis, ed. 2006. Archio Rallous Manou [Rallou Manou's Archives: Her Life and Work]. Athens: Efessos.Google Scholar
Tyrovola, Vassiliki. 1988. Helliniki paradosiaki choreftiki rithmi. [The Greek Folk Dancing Rhythms.] Athens: Gutenberg.Google Scholar
Tyrovola, Vassiliki. 2003a. “Ekfrastikes ke morfikes diastasis tou laikou paradosiakou xorou.” [“Expressive and Figural Dimensions of the Folk Dance.”] In Technes II: Episkopisi ellinikis mousikis ke chorou [Arts II: Review of the Greek Music and Dance], v. Ε΄: Laiki paradosi: neoteri chroni [Folk Tradition: Modern Times]. Patras, Greece: Hellenic Open University Press.Google Scholar
Tyrovola, Vassiliki. 2003b. “Ethnografiki parousiasi tou ellinikou paradosiakou horou.” [“Ethnographic Presentation of the Greek Folk Dance.”] In Technes II: Episkopisi ellinikis mousikis ke horou [Arts II: Review of the Greek Music and Dance], v. Ε΄: Laiki paradosi: neoteri chroni [Folk Tradition: Modern Times]. Patras, Greece: Hellenic Open University Press. 4050.Google Scholar
Tyrovola, Vassiliki. 2003c. “Elliniki astikolaiki horoi.” In Technes II: Episkopisi ellinikis mousikis ke chorou [Arts II: Review of the Greek Music and Dance], v. Ε΄: Laiki paradosi: neoteri chroni [Folk Tradition: Modern Times]. Patras, Greece: Hellenic Open University Press. 7890.Google Scholar
Wikipedia. 2015. “Tanztheatre.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanztheater. Accessed May 23, 2015.Google Scholar