For your final project choose a dance genre/or person (associated with a particular style of dance) of interest to further investigate. Use three to five sources, outside of the textbook, and cite them with MLA format.

For your final project choose a dance genre/or person (associated with a particular style of dance) of interest to further investigate. Use three to five sources, outside of the textbook, and cite them with MLA format.

Here are some starting points for your outline and final paper:

• Why is this art form important?
• What are some of the historical facts about this dance/person?
• What was going on historically during the era this dance was being done/ Is this particular art form still being done today? If so what are the changes in the current form.

Your final paper should be in essay format with a minimum of 1200 words.

Below are some topic ideas for your paper, it is perfectly fine to choose someone/thing not on this list as long as long as the topic is relevant to dance history and research.

1. Mary Wigman
2. Marie Taglioni
3. Anna Pavlova
4. The Romantic Period
5. Alvin Ailey
6. Commedia Dell’arte
7. George Balanchine
8. Merce Cunningham
9. Rudolf Van Laban
10. Katherine Dunham
11. Marius Petipa
12. August Bournonville
13. José Límon
14. African Dances
15. Polynesian Dancs
16. East Indian Dance
17. Japanese Dance
18. Martha Graham
19. Trisha Brown
20. Maurice Béjart
21. Master Juba
22. Jerome Robbins
23. Twyla Tharp
24. Bob Fosse
25. Fred Astaire