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Kung Fu Yin Yang
1,321 wordsChristian Estrada March 22, 1996 Literature- 07 Biography Report Bruce Lee Introduction Bruce Lee was born in the Chinese year of the dragon, in the hour of the dragon on November 27, 1940. From the beginning, it was obvious he was a remarkable and unique child with tremendous energy. His mother named him Lee Jun Fan, which meant "return again. " She felt he would return to the United States where he was born while his parents were on tour with the Cantonese opera. A nurse suggested he be called...
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Dancers On Stage Making Of A Chorus Line Musical
1,198 wordsOn May 21, 1975, a spectacular new Broadway musical opened. The musical was unique because it told the stories of the dancers in the show rather than letting the audience just watch the dancers perform. A Chorus Line, a musical by Michael Bennett, was very popular when it made its day view and continues to be shown today to marvel its audience. Michael Bennetts inspiration for the idea to put together A Chorus Line came mostly out of frustration of the society he lived in the 1970 s. In Bennetts...
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Flamenco Dance Art Form
1,347 words... in temples during religious rites the sacred Indian dances eventually began to be performed outside the temples in India. As the dances were performed publicly more often, laypersons adopted and modified the movements. Through caravans and trading vessels different cultures witnessed the simplified dances and returned home with a new and exhilarating form of movement dedicated to personal expression. The more simplified dances also dispersed throughout Spain when Indian gypsies followed Moor...
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Middle Class Families Rap Music
3,729 words... t lifting. Clive did not like the name Hercules so he shortened it to Herc. When Herc became a graffiti writer he took the tag name Kool Herc. Kool Herc began to DJ in 1973 once he had amassed a great sound system. The Jamaican influence of having a large sound system was not lost on Herc. Herc realized that in order for large crowds to dance to his music they needed to hear the beat. Kool Herc seldom played an entire song. He knew which part of the record sent his audience into a frenzy. It...
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Bring In 'da Artistic Director Rent
1,772 wordsThere's a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the ' 90 s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie who's a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers' quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. It's the signal for an "AZT break, " and suddenly they realize that they " re both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you don't think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical is inspired b...
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Analysis Of Thorpe Dance Young Man And Death
438 wordsYoung Man and Death is a dance that is very expressive. It is full of exaggerated movements, which have symbolic interpretations. It is quite simple to interpret. If one didnt know the title of the dance the content could easily be identified. A male dancer performs a dance of desperation, jubilee and death. This dance is full of insight, exhibits perfection and is inexhaustible. The content of the dance is a male / female relationship that has resulted in a breakup. The woman is leaving the man...
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Time I Dance Special Hobby Dancing
743 wordsPractically every person has his or her own hobby; whether it's a sport, collecting certain items, or something one takes their time practicing. Personally, I never thought I ever had a hobby. As a matter of fact I wasn't even sure what a hobby actually was. Then I got to thinking and I finally realized that my hobby was dancing. Yes, I know that to some people dancing is not considered a true hobby; but the way I see it, if I enjoy dancing and spend my precious time doing it, then I have every ...
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Democratic Society Human Beings
1,666 words... dancer. The goal of the dancer is to be able to express freedom and spontaneity. Paradoxically perhaps (at least for the Hobbesian who understands only negative freedom), the dancer's freedom of expression requires years of disciplined practice and study. Again, the dancer becomes ever more free to express his or her ideas, feelings, etc. - the more he or she undertakes the rules of long practice, proper diet, etc. As another example: as drivers of automobiles, we all share the same goal: we...
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Beats Per Minute Back And Forth
1,232 wordsWhat is a rave? Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. Author Daniel Martin defines a rave as "a long period of constant energetic and stylistic dancing exhibited by a large group of people in a hot, crowded facility providing continuous loud House music and an accompanying strobe lit psychedelic light show" (78). But what effect does the rave scen...
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Opened The Door Strip Club
1,877 wordsStrip Club Strip clubs are part of age restricted entertainment industry. In this profile essay I would like to talk about one of the regular strip clubs and what impression it makes on a regular visitor of it. So I decided to visit one of those facilities in order to get a deeper insight of what is going on there. Its just past midnight in a chilly night at Choo Choo's Lounge, ten miles north of my house and two miles south from my brothers house, in Maryland. The heater of my car coughs and sp...
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Ginger Williams Dancing Dancing Dancing Dance
340 wordsBy: Ginger Williams Dancing Dancing Dancing By: Ginger Williams Dancing is an act of moving the body in rhythm, usually in time to music. People seem to express their feelings through rhythmic movement. In dancing, people organize the expressive movements of their bodies into rhythmic patterns. Dancing is both an art and a form of recreation. As an art, dance may tell a story, set a mood, or express an emotion. A ballet dancer s movements, for example, can effectively describe the fluttering of ...
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Day By Day Flamenco Dance
1,160 wordsFlamenco is one of the greatest musical forms of Europe, and is considered to be one of the most passionate and complex forms of music. Flamenco is a multicultural art form, that arose in Andalucia, the southern region of Spain, evolving from the interaction of many migrating cultures? including the Moorish, Jewish, Spanish, and especially the Gypsies. It is the Gypsies from the south of Spain that created this improvised music day by day since their arrival to Spain in the 15 th century. The gy...
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Louis Xiv Three Companies
1,435 wordsA History of Ballet in Canada Magnificence, extravagance, artificiality, a tiny society in which everyone knew every detail of everyone s life. The preceding sentence best described the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King, and it was into that world that professional ballet was born. Louis was an accomplished dancer and appeared in many court ballets from the age of twelve until he was thirty-two. Though he continued to perform his favorite ballroom dances, various affairs, such as his sense of roy...
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Langston Hughes Silk Stockings
2,095 wordsHughes and His Women Were Eve s eyes In the first garden Just a bit too bold? Was Cleopatra gorgeous In a gown of gold? Jazzonia Langston Hughes devoted his art, writing, to the true expression of the lives, hopes, fears, and angers of ordinary black people, without the self-consciousness or sugar coating (Moore). Hughes not only focused on black people s lives in general; he went into detail about their hopes, their fears, their accomplishments, and their failures. Hughes s poetry expressed the...
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Women Tap Dancers Tap A Gram Goldberg
635 wordsDance 100 Asset. # 2 JANE GOLDBERG Goldberg is a tap dancer who performs for different audiences since the nineteen- seventies. She is also a well-known teacher. When she teaches, she is always trying to deliver the material in a way that will make the students feel a part of tap dance too. Some of her students like to hear her stories about her boyfriend, others would rather listen to her funny stories like her affiliation to the Weight Watchers, or even different issues related to her life. Ja...
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American Culture Art Form
796 wordsJazz Dance Jazz dance is a form of personal expression created and sustained though improvisation has certain defining characteristics, including improvisation, isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that radiates outward from the hips, and a propulsive rhythm that gives a swinging quality to the movement. -Bob Books Jazz is a crossbreed of north American cultures, a music and dance of the slaves of Africa, and old European Jigs and lit's, Minstrel shows and presumably, Jazz music. Jazz is...
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Quot Big Make Money
1,805 wordsTheres a scene in the new musical " RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the 90 s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie whos a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. Its the signal for an " AZT break, " and suddenly they realize that theyre both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you dont think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical i...
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First World War Firing Squad
1,799 wordsDuring the First World War, many people were accused of being spies and helping the enemy. One of them, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle, has gone down in history as one of the most legendary women of all time. Using the pseudonym Mata Hari, Margaretha led a career as an exotic dancer, was accused of spying for the Germans, did spy for the French and was executed before a firing squad. Mata Hari? s trial was clearly unfair and the evidence was weak at best. When we examine her background, the events ...
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Young Girl Sound Track
1,304 wordsGender And Sexuality Play A Key Part Within The Film Dirty Dancing. Discuss. The film is set in the year of 1963, John F Kennedy was still president and the Vietnam War was not considered a threat, the Beatles had yet not reached America and the Freedom riders were on. In reality the well known and loved, cult girly film, and classic romance was made in 1987. There have been many attempts throughout the film to represent the time in which it was set and yet there are clear indications that the f...
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Individual Or Group Arms And Legs
1,566 wordsB-Boy Breakin Moves Dictionary AIRPLANES Form of a windmills with your arms spread out straight to the sides as high as you can get them. AIRSWIPES You start with both hands and feet on the ground, facing upwards. Then you kick your legs up with your weight on one arm and spin over so that you land on your other arm before your legs land. If done correctly you should be able to spin you body completely around in a full rotation. APPLEJACKS A basic move to challenge another by to battle. You squa...
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