首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
专升本
Dance, sometimes called the original art, is also the universal art, for man has always carried it with him. Ballet, which trans
Dance, sometimes called the original art, is also the universal art, for man has always carried it with him. Ballet, which trans
admin
2016-03-05
20
问题
Dance, sometimes called the original art, is also the universal art, for man has always carried it with him. Ballet, which transformed dancing into a controlled dramatic art, arose out of the lavish(盛大奢华的)efforts of the Italian Renaissance court to entertain itself. By the beginning of the 20th century, American pioneers of modern dance were declaring independence from the ballet. Their prophet(先知;倡导者)was Isadora Duncan(1878-1927), who at age 6 was teaching neighborhood infants how to wave their arms gracefully, explaining to her mother that she was running a dancing school.
Born in San Francisco, the fourth child of a reckless businessman who abandoned the family, Isadora led a vagrant childhood as her mother moved her children about to evade unpaid landlords, all the while instilling in the children a love of drama and music. At age 19, Isadora became "the pet of society" in New York, dancing on private occasions for wealthy ladies. She studied Greek vases and sculptures in museums for the figures of ancient dancers and developed her own ideal of Greek dance, shocking society audiences in London and Paris with her bare feet and legs, her clinging and revealing costumes and her free movements. " Toe walking deforms the feet," she declared, " Corsets(束腹;妇女的胸衣)deform the body; nothing is left to be deformed but the brain. " In France, she arrived at her own simple dance formula, which made "solar plexus"(太阳神经丛)a familiar phrase among those who could not locate it. "For hours I would stand still, my two hands folded between my breasts, covering the solar plexus... I was seeking and finally discovered the central spring of all movement. "
Performing her "free dance" in European capitals, she shocked the classic ballet of imperial Russia. Prince Peter Lieven, the patron of the ballet, saw in Isadora "the beginning of the new outlook... she was the first to dance the music and not dance to the music. " With her scanty costumes, she was always controversial when touring in America and never more so than in the 1920s, when she was viewed as a "Bolshevik agent" for teaching dance to Soviet children and creating dances for Lenin’s funeral. Her life was full of passionate love affairs and tragedies. She lost a husband to suicide: her two children drowned with their nurse when their automobile ran into the Seine.
In 1927, penniless and at the end of her career, she pretended that she wanted to buy a flashy Bugatti sports car, which she had delivered to her for a test ride with the handsome driver. Wearing a long red scarf wrapped around her neck, she climbed in announcing "Adieu, mes amis. Je vais a la gloire. "(Farewell, my friends, I go to glory. ")As the car lunched(东歪西倒)forward, the scarf caught in the spokes of a wheel and she was strangled.
"I shall not teach the children to imitate my movements—I shall help them develop those movements natural to them. " Isarado once said, but she preaches the liberation of the dance less effectively in her words than in herself. " When she raised her arms, it was an incredible experience. " The English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton remembered. "She could also stand still—and often did—but it was an alive stillness and it was dancing. "
The passage, as a whole, is mainly about______.
选项
A、dance as the original art
B、ballet as a controlled dramatic art
C、the art of dance in America
D、the American dancer Isadora Duncan
答案
D
解析
虽文章的前两句话是关于舞蹈艺术及芭蕾艺术的,但整篇文章主要是关于Isadora的一生的,所以选D。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/FTHC777K
本试题收录于:
英语题库普高专升本分类
0
英语
普高专升本
相关试题推荐
Summerswithfatherwerealways【B1】______Swimming,hiking,boating,fishing—thedayswerenotlongenoughto【B2】______allofour
TheUnitedStatesiswell-knownforitsnetworkofmajorhigh-waysdesignedtohelpadrivergetfromoneplacetoanotherinth
TheUnitedStatesiswell-knownforitsnetworkofmajorhigh-waysdesignedtohelpadrivergetfromoneplacetoanotherinth
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopicChoosinganOccupation.Youshouldwriteatleast
Whatshouldyoudo,forexample,ifyoufindoutthatunderthefertilefieldsofafarmingcommunitythereisathickbedofco
Inatelephonesurveyofmorethan2,000adults,21%saidtheybelievedthesunrevolved(旋转)aroundtheearth.An【C1】______7%di
The______estimateofgainsingrossnationalproductsuggestedagradualrecoveryfromeconomicrecession.
Wegaveoutacheerwhentheredroofofthecottagecame______view.
WhenIwaslearningcalligraphy(书法),myteachertoldmeastory.Acalligraphertaughthandwriting.Oneofhisstudentswho
The______estimateofgainsingrossnationalproductsuggestedagradualrecoveryfromeconomicrecession.
随机试题
在Excel工作表中,先用鼠标单击C4单元格;然后按住Shift键,单击G8单元格;再按住Ctrl键,单击D11单元格,则选定的区域有__________个单元格。
患者男,23岁。因情绪低落,凭空闻声,想自杀2周入院。2周前工作调动不满意,渐出现心情不好,情绪低落,有时凭空听到有人讲自己工作能力不行,没本事,感觉单位同事看自己的眼神中都流露出蔑视,患者为此想自杀。此患者最可能的诊断是
滑环式CT扫描机与传统CT机比较,改变的是
下列利用X线检查的方法是
使尿酸排出增加的因素,下列哪项是错误的
在证券经纪业务中,证券经纪商为客户保密的资料包括()。
甲将自己拥有的一幅名人所作的画卖给乙,约定好乙在签订合同的第二日来取画,结果在签订合同的当晚,该画就被小偷丙盗走,转卖给了不知情的丁。下列说法正确的是()。
下列火于主存储器的描述中,正确的是()I.CPU访存时间由存储器容量决定Ⅱ.ROM和RAM在存储器中是统一编址的Ⅲ.ROM中任意一一个单元可以随机访问Ⅳ.DRAM是破坏性读出,因此需要读后重写
下列叙述中哪一条是正确的( )。
Itisoftenobservedthattheagedspendmuchtimethinkingandtalkingabouttheirpastlives,【71】aboutthefuture.Theseremin
最新回复
(
0
)