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This essay is on the role of dancing in my life. Dancing has been a special part of my life since I was a little girl, I always loved dancing because it cheerfully fills my heart. Dance is a unique art that only requires passion....
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Attention Getter: What exactly would we do for enjoyment and entertainment if dancing didn’t exist? Dancing plays a big role in our lives even though there are people who don’t like it or can’t do it well. The thing with dancing is that no one...
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Introduction Dancing is great exercise and is for everybody. Everyone can enjoy dancing regardless of race, age, built, shape and size. It can be done alone, practiced with a group or with a partner. Dancing integrates several brain functions at once – kinesthetic, rational, musical...
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Every dance season has a fresh start, with that come new opportunities to set new goals, push yourself, but most importantly to be inspired by others. Recently I moved studios, and have been pushed places I never knew I could reach. This year I have...
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Ask anyone and they will tell you their mom made them participate in some sort of sport or extra-curricular when they were younger. When I was younger those sports were gymnastics and ballet. Sometimes people take those sports and run with them and sometimes they...
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Since the age of seven, I’ve embraced a multitude of dance styles. My experience began with traditional Russian dancing which advanced to ballroom, ballet, modern, hip-hop, jazz and contemporary. My love for dance traversed the Atlantic Ocean to prosper on two different continents during the...
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A subculture created in 1970’s South Bronx of New York, sparked a worldwide change in the perception of the Black individual. Created out of a need for self-expression, freedom and a longing for lack of restrictions that was not often found in a society created...
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In 1913 The Rite of Spring caused a riot, it was a performance no one had ever seen before. It all began where Stravinsky created a piece of music in 1910 called the Firebird for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. Nikolai Roerich was a Russian...
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In order to become a professional dancer you must be able to push yourself through numerous boundaries. To do this, dancers tend to become very high- strung perfectionists. They develop into highly motivated individuals that are not willing to give up- no matter what it...
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The origin of jazz dance can be traced all the way back to Africa. In Africa, it was custom for natives to dance as a celebration of cycles in life such as birth, puberty, marriage, and death. This was to express their cultural beliefs. Drums,...
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It is surprising how much common ground someone can find between dancing and architecture. Starting from a fundamental principle, all the architectural constructions in order to be able to stand, they need to obey the laws of physics, such as gravity. Moreover there should be...
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Dance is much deeper than movement it is a way to bond and communicate, particularly during tough times. It would be difficult to tell the whole history of something as complicated and diverse as identity and dance in a modern urban society, this essay will...
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The Ballet and Indlamu performance are forms of dance that have derived from decades of history with one representing a more Eurocentric view whilst the other is representative of the African Zulu people. These dance forms are respectfully both held in high regards in connection...
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Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube are the pinnacle of many of the current trends that we see in today’s society. This is something that the creative industries and in particular, the dance industry thrives on. These platforms can be great...
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What spoke to me as one of the central points of departure as to how the readings for this week conversed with each other is the complex way that artists of dance access this ‘art form’ and in the process, developed articulations that situated artists...
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Dancing is good for your overall health, for weight loss and for mental relaxation. Everyone loves to dance, including those people who just happen to be blind, deaf, missing limbs or confined to a wheelchair. Many groups have formed classes to teach these people ballroom,...
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An age old, controversial topic within the world of dance has long been whether dancers can be considered athletes. Through the definition of athletes and dancers, professional points of view, and the qualities of both dancers and athletes, dancers can be found as equal or...
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This is the class that had me most nervous because asides from my dance experience when I was a little kid, i have no dance experience. I swim and did a little track and volleyball in high school. I had seen hip-hop, jazz, ballroom and...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov was born in Latvia in 1948. Baryshnikov was a very talented and respected ballet dancer of the Soviet Union during the late 20th century, Baryshnikov was a beloved by many in the USSR. Unfortunately, he could not reciprocate those same feelings. He moved...
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Rocky Horror follows the story of a couple that finds themselves lost in the house of a Transylvanian scientist known as Doctor Frank-N-Furter. In this house, they encounter many outlandish characters and witness the creation of a man named Rocky. The Rocky Horror Show was...
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Ballet and traditional Zulu Indlamu dance come from vastly different origins but both are traced back to the 17th century and started from royalty. When colonisation occurred in South Africa, ballet was brought. Even though Indlamu dance was created in South Africa, Ballet was the...
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When you think of ballroom dancing, you probably think of slow music being played by a violin. Centuries ago, your thoughts would have been very accurate. Ballroom dancing was originally performed to acoustic guitars, violins, and cellos. This kind of music was appropriate at the...
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Present day move was made as a rebel against expressive dance. Martha Graham was one of the most acclaimed artists and makers of move, called choreographers. She carried present day move to another degree of prevalence in American culture. She made another dialect of development...
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In the play “Master Harold… And the Boys,” ballroom dancing extends far beyond jazz music, swishing skirts and sashaying couples. It takes on universality of meaning as a symbol of a “world without collisions,” an inherent desire, a dream, an inspiration, which – even if...
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After seeing ballroom dancing on television, you decide it’s time for you to get up and strap on those dancing shoes. Or, maybe you are looking to get into shape but don’t exactly want to pay for a gym membership that may never be used....
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Bollywood fusion is a style of dance that mixes basic Bollywoodstyle of dancing and music and fuses it together with other styles of dancing such as Hip-hop and jazz. Bollywood dance originated in India, around Bombay, in the 20th century and is dancing that we...
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Agnes de Mille was born September 18,1905 in New York City into a family of theater professionals. Agnes” father William C. DeMille and her uncle Cecil B. DeMille were both Hollywood directors and her grandfather was an author of many playwright’s, the arts was definitely...
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The revival of classical indian dance forms in the 1900s was closely linked to lndia’s struggle to overthrow British rule. Through the non-violent, spiritual leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, freedom became a reality and democracy became the political choice. Indians increasingly transformed from their medieval, feudal...
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As the centuries past by, the Egyptian trained themselves in art so that they could be employed at the temples or priestesses. At first it started with lower class women. While performing, the women would dance while the men played the instruments to please the...
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Ballroom dancing is judged on more than a dozen different points. Some of those are, Posture, Timing, Line, Hold, Poise, Togetherness, Presentation and Power just to name a few. With the number of dancers being evaluated judges rely heavily on the impression each couple makes...
