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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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Mental Handicap Fifteen Minutes
1,843 wordsYear 2081 and everyone in America is equal to one another. Nobody is smarter, better looking, stronger or quicker than anyone else. It is because of the 211 th, 212 th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution. It is April, Handicapper General's men take away George and Hazel Bergeron's 14 -year-old son, Harrison. The couple are sitting watching ballerinas dance on television. George has an intelligence way above normal and is required by law to wear a little mental handicap radio in his ear, w...
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Lighting And Costumes Moved The Show Stage
1,091 words... or playing in the band. It welcomes all with open arms. Swing is a culture phenomenon of its own and has very dazzling moves that never lets your guard down. The space of the stage enhances this point because there was always something entertaining going on stage. At points it would be hard to keep focus on one thing, so my eyes could wander the stage but never wander off. The band was always on stage and they were he element that tied the show together because the fundamentals of swing is r...
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Make Me Feel French Revolution
1,041 wordsOn reading 'A Tale Of Two Cities', my general impression is that the French chapters are a lot more interesting to read. I prefer the chapters set in France because they are much more exciting and I am carried away by the novel whereas I found, that in the English chapters, they were all about Lucie and her undying love for her father and husband. This was, quite frankly, tedious and a waste of Dickens' effort to put some sentiment into these chapters which are set in London, a long way from the...
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Felt Like I Was High Country Buffet Dance
892 wordsIt's Saturday night and I'm in my snug but not skin tight blue spaghetti strap floor length dark royal blue dress, all ready to go out to a very fancy restuarant. Old Country Buffet. As my friend and I climb out of my car in a classy like fashion, we realize that the line to Old COuntry Buffet is at least 50 meters long. "Oh My God. " I say as my lipstick chalked lips fall to the floor. Glancing over at a fast-food pizza restaurant, my friend and I look at each other. "Uh huh. " We both say. Piz...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,519 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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Early Twentieth Century F Scott Fitzgerald
2,530 wordsLouise Brooks and Josephine Baker In the 1920 s, a new and popular model of modern womanhood dominated the American cultural scene. Although not all American women of the early twentieth century would emulate the flapper model, that model quickly came to represent the youthful exuberance of the post-World War I period. According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author whose novels set a tone for the 1920 s, the ideal flapper, representing the ideal modern woman, was lovely, expensive, and about ninet...
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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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Theme Parks Ice Cream
660 wordsThe black pirate hat danced around in the air, weaving and bobbing to some Disneyland music. Attached to it was my head and the rest of me, being dragged along on this wild ride. The only sounds I heard were ones of trumpets soaring higher and higher, trying to hit an absurdly high note. The pirate hat and the warm Florida night had taken control, and my self-consciousness went right out the window. I danced, not greatly or with any skill whatsoever, but I danced. For that one night, at the end ...
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Red Velvet Slippers Clapped Their Hands Bella
733 wordsOnce upon a time there was a beautiful Dancer who lived in Mexico City. Raquel: What was she called? Maria: She was called Bella. Raquel: Oh. (Raquel s prettiest doll is called Bella. ) Bella was the loveliest dancer in the world, and all the people wanted her to come and dance at their parties. In the evening she would go down to the clubs or else she would dance in their gardens on the lawns among the statues and roses and fountains, where all the trees were hung with lights like coloured star...
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Quot Ponies Gathering Dark Quot An Online Short Trees
1,736 words" Ponies Gathering In The Dark" An Online Short" Ponies Gathering In The Dark" An Online Short Story By Endrezze The house was a forest remembering itself. The pine trees that held up the walls dreamed of stars dwelling in their needles. Jointed, branched, rooted, the trees still listened to the wind. The oak floors gleamed from the generations of human oils, but they still grew into their immense lineage of light and matter. The air between the ancient trees whispered with s...
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Dance Floor West Coast
1,153 wordsThe history of Swing dates back to the 1920 s, where the black community, while dancing to contemporary Jazz music, discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York. The Savoy was an immediate success with its block-long dance floor and a raised double bandstand. Nightly dancing brought in most of the best dancers in the New York area. Really being moved by the presence of great dancers and the best black bands, music at the Savoy wa...
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