Another approach to understanding the impact of Antony Tudor and his choereography is look at the historical context of ballet in relation to modern dance at the time.
For much of its history, ballet has focused on romantic themes, in particular the elevation of the spirit and soul as supreme in comparison to the crude nature of the physical body. As such, early choreographers sought to emphasize this sense of the spiritual through the advent of pointe shoes, which transfigured the human form, keeping them as far away from the earth as possible and giving the dancers a spirit-like appearance. This is most easily seen in the ballet blancs, Giselle, Swan Lake, and La Sylphide.
One of the main elements of ballet that early modern dance artists, like Isadora Duncan, sought to deconstruct was the idea of the spiritual as being superior to the physical. Instead modern dance sought to integrate these two realms, as this was thought to bring a greater understanding of both. One of the ways this was accomplished was through the use of bare feet, instead of pointe shoes. This provided connection to the earth and the material world, something that was antithetical to the aesthetic of the Romantics. Modern dancers also tended to draw from spiritual traditions, but unlike the mostly Abrahamic influences of ballet emphasizing the transcendent nature of the spirit, dancers like Isadora Duncan drew from traditions like Hellenism, emphasizing transcendence as a process that occurs through connection with the natural world, rather than escape from it.
Antony Tudor sought to bring these two forms together in a way. Contemporary ballet is sometimes referred to as "rebelling against rebellion." In this sense, Tudor didn't seek to find an entirely new vocabulary of movement or technique necessarily, but rather sought to find new ways to employ his background in the Cecchetti method of ballet to express the themes that he found relevant, namely the human mind. However, this is not to say that his movement was completely balletic in nature, as his use of the torso and floor work most certainly were the result of modern influences, likely picked up from his observations of the Jooss Company (Chamberlain Duerden 32).
Sources: The Choreography of Antony Tudor: Focus on Four Ballets by Rachel S. Chamberlain Duerden
Modern dance focus more on integrate spiritual and physics. We can have a better understanding from Doris Humphrey who is one of leader of modern dance. She created the concept "Fall and Recovery" and dance with bare dance, both are good example to explain this idea.
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