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Swan Lake Four Years
1,251 wordsDancer and choreographer Anton Dolin has been called "one of the most colorful and vital figures in modern ballet. " As a member of internationally known ballet companies or as director of his own troupes, this British-born artist has toured Europe and America for the past twenty years. Anton Dolin, originally Patrick Healey-Kay, was born on July 27, 1904, in Slinfold, Sussex, England. He is one of the three sons of George Henry and Helen Maude (Healey) Kay. When he was ten years of age his pare...
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Musical Theatre Great American
1,100 wordsThere are many great American choreographers of our time. It is through their creative genious that musicals and movies are made memorable. If it wasn't for the work of these choreographers, musical theatre wouldn't be what it is today. It is because of these choreographers that musical theatre is what it is. These choreographers brought to musical theatre dance technique that was only once used in ballet. In fact it was because of this that ballet and jazz, as well as all the other forms of dan...
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Facial Expressions Left Foot
918 wordsLyrical and ballet are both extremely common yet incredibly different types of dance. They both differ from each other for numerous reasons. Before ballerinas begin their extensive class, the instructor warms the dancers muscles up at the barre. A barre is a long wooden horizontal rail attached to the wall and is approximately the height of the dancers rib cage. When the dancer is at the barre, they practice such combinations as plies, ton dues, declares, frappes, and grand bahamas, just to name...
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Body And Soul Flamenco Dance
1,356 wordsFlamenco is not merely a style of music, song or dance from Spain but rather a way of life that influences the daily activities of many individuals. The art of flamenco was intended to be an outward expression of an individuals most profound emotions and the flamenco way of life. It was never intended to be a technical art performed with stoic precision yet without duende (a passion / feeling for flamenco). The main components and styles of flamenco will be discussed briefly while an in depth pr...
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Corps De Ballet Member Of The Corps Dancer
585 wordsThe lights dim, the orchestra begins to warm up, the rustling of paper can be heard, and then the curtain rises. The performance begins with an overture, a prelude to what will happen. Suddenly, the star ballerina appears on stage. She is beautiful and the audience claps vigorously for her. At the end of the show, she receives flowers and massive amounts of applause. Every little girl in the audience wants to be the ballerina on stage that was just seen. How does a little girl fulfill her dream ...
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Clever Smoother Dreamier Three Second Rule Girl
1,089 wordsFeelings can twist reality in the most peculiar ways. Emotions push the mind to the most stunning conclusions, and stir within the soul the strangest storms. In fact, senses reach their peak in David Wagoners poetic work The Best Slow Dancer. In the poem, Wagoner brings out the height of sentiment through the eyes of a teenage boy at a school dance, who overcomes the teenage social hierarchy and his own fear to share in the longed-for dance with one special girl. All the while Wagoner takes his ...
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African Influence On American Dance
1,174 wordsAfrican dance has contributed many characteristics to dance in America. We see evidence of this in many aspects of dance today. Being such a diverse nation, America has the blessing of combining original dances from different cultures to create an amazing dance repertoire. American dance as we know would be completely different, if it werent for the Africans. African dance began with the different rhythms of the tribes. Its roots in America began with the slave trade. The American slave trade be...
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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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Psychological View On Modern Dance
2,458 wordsPsychological View on Modern Dance Modern dance was developed at the beginning of the 20 th century. The modern dance pioneers refused to obey the rigid constraints of the Classical Ballet. They also rebelled against classical ballet technique, shoes and costumes. The new era of modern dance was followed by the appearance of various branches of modernism in art, literature, sculpture. The psychological ground for modernism was taken from the works of well-known scholar Sigmund Freud. Sigmund Fre...
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Flamenco Dance Art Form
2,705 wordsFlamenco Flamenco Essay on Flamenco. Flamenco is not merely a style of music, song or dance from Spain but rather a way of life that influences the daily activities of many individuals. The art of flamenco was intended to be an outward expression of an individuals most profound emotions and the flamenco way of life. It was never intended to be a technical art performed with stoic precision yet without duende (a passion / feeling for flamenco). The main components and styles of flamenco will be d...
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Moved To New York Miss Lee
2,277 wordsDance has been a part of human history since the earliest records of human life (Praagh 30). Cave paintings found in Spain and France from 30, 000 - 10, 000 BC had life-like drawings of dancing figures participating in rituals. They illustrated the prominence of dance in early human society. Later in the Renaissance Era a new attitude towards the body, the arts, and dance was originated. The courts of Italy and France became the center of new developments in dance, providing support to dancing m...
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Royal Academy Of Dancing Academy Of Dancing Pointe
818 wordsGeorge Balanchine, like many dance teachers, had a good idea of what he thought the ideal dancer should look like. Balanchine also felt that there should be a greater concentration on the female dancers pointe work. He had very high expectations for his dancers to be very precise, crisp, and quick in their movements on and off of pointe. He started by teaching each dancer the correct way to pointe their feet in their pointe shoes and how to stand in release. Next the dancer inquires the strength...
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Ballets Russes York City
1,299 wordsDANCING AND BALLET Dancing is the art of moving the body in time to music. Dancing is both an art and a form of recreation. Most people dance to have fun or to entertain others, but dance can also be used for communication. Dancers express feelings of joy without saying a word. Since prehistoric times people have danced, and there are lots of kinds of dancing. There is folk dancing and religious dancing, popular dancing and theatrical dancing, to name a few. Out of all dancing, theatrical is pro...
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Harper Amp Row Quot Quot
2,475 wordsN. Scott Momadays: Biographical, Literary, And Multicultural N. Scott Momadays: Biographical, Literary, And Multicultural Contexts Kenneth M. Roemer Momaday's Major Works The Journey of Tai-me. Santa Barbara: Privately Printed, 1967. House Made of Dawn. New York: Harper & Row, 1968. The Way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. Angle of Geese and Other Poems. Boston: Going, 1974. The Gourd Dancer. New York: Harper & Row, 1976. The Names: A Memoir. New York...
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Salom Veiled In Mystery Veiled In Mystery Dancer
298 wordsA moment of silence. They announce The Dancer. Polite applause. The music stirs. The pulse of the drum quickens. My everyday world fades away as I approach the Gate. Behind me lies my waking life. Ahead of me lie only possibilities. I step through the Gate, onto the stage. I am The Dancer. I am Salom? , veiled in mystery. I am Inanna, the Evening Star. Feel my warmth as I share my art with you. Feel my joy as I draw inspiration from the music. Feel my power as I transform it into movement. Feel ...
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