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Los Angeles Dance Company
316 wordsBorn on the 5 th of January 1931, the man who changed the face of modern dance forever. He was born in a farming community in Rogers, Texas. When he was twelve he and his mother moved to Los Angeles. He had a difficult childhood. His mother was always working or out at a club. Through these hard times a wide range of dance genres, including the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and the Katherine Dunham Dance Company, influenced him He enrolled at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). It ...
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Years Of My Life Four Years
1,355 wordsWhen I want something in life, I know that it usually does not come easy. Hard work and dedication is involved. For the past eleven years of my life, I have been a full time dancer. I started tying those jazz shoes onto my feet at age six, never thinking that one day they would come off. I still will slip them on once in a while, when I get an urge to prance around in front of the mirror, or attend a small dance audition. After my third year of dancing at my studio, I was definitely craving the ...
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Louise Brooks And Josephine Part 2
2,533 words... the implication of such confinement reflects the fate of the French at the end of the Third Republic and beyond: either outright expulsion or the colonial policy of exclusion from within (Asante, 1993 p. 157). However, more importantly, attesting to Bakers singing style, one reviewer proclaimed: Her singing, like a wounded bird, transported the crowd (New York Times, 28 Feb. 1932). The singing and dancing talent that escalated Baker to stardom made her the focus of the American press. Baker ...
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Modern Dance Dance Company
459 wordsLimon Dance Company is the nation? s oldest modern-dance company. Jose Limon established Limon in 1946. In the beginning the company only survived by word of mouth but eventually grew to be one of the Nations best and well-known Modern Dance Company? s. The Limon Dance Company survived with many of its original dance? s intact, these dances preserve the legacy of mid-century choreographers and showed the Company? s talent. The three pieces that the Limon Company performed were Champion, The Wing...
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African American Dance Company
687 wordsGyrating hips, fast feet, high stepping, and magnificent moves, are characteristics that belong to the great African-American dancers of history s past. Fax s Black Archives Museum has a vast collection of African-American artifacts including a variety of pictures of dazzling African-American dancers. These dancers Katherine Dunham, Martha Graham, and Bill Bo jangles Robinson exemplify black beauty, style, and grace. Katherine Dunham was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on June 22, 1909, to Albert a...
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