The impulse to move is the raw material that cultures shapes into evocative sequences of physical activity that we call DANCE…
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I have experienced winters with and without snow. I have experienced both diverse, and homogeneous worlds. I have friends from boarding schools, as well as, friends from schools in urban neighborhoods. And I love it.…
As a shy teenage girl with two left feet and a fear of dancing in public, I felt that dancing at a friend’s quinceanera as a member of her court of honor was going to be the worst experience of my life. After my mother gave me the news that she had volunteered me to be a dama de honor, I immediately complained about having to dance with a group of strangers for 5 months in preparation for the dance performance in front of about 200 people. For the first month I reluctantly attended every practice, and the most communication I had with the rest of the court members were a few mumbles once in a while. But as the day of the quinceanera approached, I became more comfortable with the other members of the court and even befriended some of them. I…
Your story is every detailed, and you give us multiple examples and experiences. I like that at the beginning you talked about you dancing when you were little and about the tutus and jazz costumes. To me, that means that you have been apart of the dance discourse community for a long time and it is ever near and dear to your heart. However, I think you need to make what your discourse community is more known because from your story I can not tell what it is.…
Dancing is an art. It is a creative way for people to express their feelings through movements and rhythm. From the 19th century to the 21st, dancing has evolved from the traditional modern dancing featuring the waltz, to urban dancing including all pop, hip-hop, and freestyle dancing. During the twentieth century in America, dance became the main type of entertainment. Dance has been used to help keep many Americans gleeful during the country’s crises, economically and technologically. To express their reactions to these changes, Americans danced. As the society changed during the decades, so did the type of dance, creating new forms of entertainment that are now a part of our American history.…
When I am dancing I just fell the flow in my body, the music is carrying me through the stage. My heart rate starts to get accelerated, my muscle are sore for the day before but I just keep going; my mind is unware of them. Feathery pirouettes till the edge of the stage, my feet are skimming deliciously the floor, my hands appeared to be mindless but somehow they are strong as if their only job was keeping an angel from falling. I fell my whole body radiating passion while trying to reach my own dance. Suddenly… a pause… I am not my anymore, whom I am?…
One day while I was dancing to a record in my living room, my mother’s friend who was a Spanish dancer noticed me and encouraged me to start taking dance lessons. So I began taking lessons from a prestigious dancer, Paco Casino who was related to Rita Hayworth. Before I knew it, dancing was changing my life in a blink of an eye and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. As I was turning nine, my phase as a Spanish dancer soon took a shift to staring in dramatic radio shows.…
As I went out onto the stage, the bright lights hurt my eyes. My hands were sweating and the music for our lyrical started to play. For this dance I felt free. I knew all the moves and they just flowed out of me as I continued to dance. I did not even think about the people in the crowd as I looked to the back of the auditorium. With every breath another second went by, and before I knew it I made my last move and left the stage. I thought “first dance down only two more to go,” as I quickly got ready for the next dance.…
Within the dance community, there exist many unfortunate psychological problems, especially among young girls. Recently, the studio I attend preformed a dance worship night. Mere minutes before we walked onstage, I could hear a collection of anxious voices from around the dressing room. “Could you tell me if my arabesque is high enough?” “I wish I had better arches.” “Guys, look at how bad my middle splits are today!” Even though our teachers constantly reminded us to “Dance for the Lord alone”, we continued to harass ourselves about our own faults and weaknesses. This perfectionist behavior pervades nearly every styles of dance, from hip-hop to lyrical. Dancers constantly strive for a stronger, more flexible, more controlled body.…
The atmosphere that existed within my dance studio was one so utterly supportive and positive, that my love for dance grew stronger. The girls that I spent hours each week with, became sisters to me. We were able to support one another in class, as well as within our personal lives. By spending so much time with such wonderful people, I’d like to think that I have become a better person. My time dancing at Miss Charity’s Shuffles and Chaînes has taught me how to love myself, and everything that makes me, me. It has taught me freedom of expression, and the value in making art out of what matters to me. It has taught me how to respect other opinions and ideas, even when they are different from my own. It has taught me the value in friendship, and that a healthy support system is the perfect thing to end a stressful day with. It has taught me discipline, kindness, teamwork, and many other valuable traits. The thought of leaving dance is one that I cannot fathom, and it is for that reason that I will try and keep it a part of my life as long as I see fit. I may not want to pursue a career in dance, but I can’t see myself abandoning something that has become a part of who I am. Without dance, I am not Taylor Ann Ruzewski, and I wouldn’t want to be anyone different that the person I am…
Dance played a major role in terms of helping me to accept the move from Australia to Shanghai and shaped the person I am today. This remarkable performing art consists mainly of two aspects, technicality and emotion. Technique can be determined through numbers. It refers to how many turns you can do, how beautiful your arch is, how high you can lift your leg. Emotion is what makes you special. It cannot be differentiated through numbers or figures, but rather through how you express yourself and how your performance makes the audience feel. Dance took these two aspects and blended them together to create one magnificent performing…
As dance, of all styles, becomes prevalent, an increasing number of people choose to dance for their profession and career. They devotedly train and practice dancing in order to show audiences the best performances. Audiences, as a result, learn to appreciate dance performances as pieces of art works. They become more willing to see how dancers use their bodies to express a special feeling or to tell a distinctive story aesthetically and exquisitely. Nevertheless, they seem to forget about a group of people who have physical defects and cannot dance freely as they wish. Amongst this group, some lost their limbs, whereas the others lost their sense of hearing and sight. Many of them, however, have one thing in common despite their different disabilities, that is, they love to dance as much as the able-bodied. Therefore, several dance companies have stood out to support these disabled dancers and offer them the opportunity for dancing on the stage. Amongst these companies, Candoco Dance Company, consisting of disabled and able-bodied dancers, has the most impact on erasing…
What I learned in school, the media, and forming a part of two cultures, Mexican, and American, formed and created my own individualized way of thinking, living, and my own modified values. I ended up adopting both cultures, and ended up as an adult belonging to a different cultural group, a group of diverse individuals from different ethnic backgrounds, all connected thru music. The cultural group I currently belong to is that of those individuals who have a passion for dance; a love for Latin Ballroom Dancing. They have become my dancing family, consisting of people from Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Africa, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Asia and so on. I believe I belong to a rich cultural group which breaks the boundaries between ethnicity and race. Us dancers have become close and respect each other's…
I was always one of those kids that never felt comfortable doing any sport. So when I found out that I had a talent for dancing, I was overjoyed. I started dance during my 5th grade year of school. I immediately fell in love with the sport. I was obsessed with it. I worked very hard my 6th grade year to be able to join my dance academy’s company, and I had finally made it into the company, when things went south. One day, during my musical theatre class I was doing a combo that my teacher, Jessica Childs, had given my class. When my best friend Lauren and I were doing the combo I knew something wasn’t right. My right leg had a twinging pain, and when I did the grande botama at the end of the combo, I knew I had pushed myself too far. Over the next year and a half, I would go through the long search to find a way to heal whatever was wrong. It was an experience that I’ll never forget.…