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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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Night After Ms Night After Ms A Left Dancers
1,201 words" 1, 2, 36, 7, 8 " Ms A counts the dance's pounding beat as her dancer's practiced for hours. Ms A, an experienced dance instructor who has a passion about the art of dance owned a ranch called " The One and Only Dance Community. " The Dance Community was 50 acres of dance rooms, work out facilities, cafeterias and dorms which housed the dancers. Ms A, a very demanding dance instructor expected nothing less than perfection of her students. This perfection required complete control over the dance...
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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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Eighteenth Century York Harper
1,846 wordsWhat do the words "square dance" mean to you? For most they bring on images of red barns full of men in cowboy hats and women in gingham dresses skipping along as a fiddler plays and the cows and horses look on. These dances are often thought of as a thing of the 1930 's or something we see in movies such as Oklahoma. However, the form we know of today has far outgrown that stigma. Square dancing is popular across the world and is performed by all ages. Square dance groups attend conferences, cl...
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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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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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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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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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Common Ground Dance Music
555 wordsFirst of all, I would like to give a definition of what a dance and poetry is. Dancing is the art of moving the body in time to the music. Dancing is both an art and communication. Poetry is the art, theory, or structure of poems. Poem is a rhythmical composition, expressing experiences, ideas, or emotions, imaginative, and powerful. I think the dancers, the choreographers, and everybody that was involved with creating and directing the dance performance did an awesome job putting dance, poetry ...
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Night After Ms Ms As Controlling Dancers
1,188 wordsMs A counts the dances pounding beat as her dancers practiced for hours. Ms A, an experienced dance instructor who has a passion about the art of dance owned a ranch called The One and Only Dance Community. The Dance Community was 50 acres of dance rooms, work out facilities, cafeterias and dorms which housed the dancers. Ms A, a very demanding dance instructor expected nothing less than perfection of her students. This perfection required complete control over the dancers lives. The clothes the...
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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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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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Ballets Russes Twentieth Century
1,234 wordsHe fancied a Diaghilev Diaghilev He fancied a career in music, but was a terrible composer. He wanted to be a painter, but lacked vision and aptitude. He wanted to change the face of dance, but had no dance training whatsoever. By his own admission, this poor, misguided soul had no real gifts. He went on to become one of the most influential artistic figures of the twentieth century. Despite his claim to the contrary, Serge Diaghilev, founder of the famous Diaghilev Ballets Russes, had many gift...
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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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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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Didn T Back Home
923 wordsNostalgia in When the Dancers Came Bienvenido Santos When the Dancers Came, shares a common trait with the rest of his short stories in Scent of Apples. It is the trait that examines the sense of loss in the Filipino American community loss of home, country, and family. In When the Dancers Came, Santos portrays this loss through the main characters of the story, Filimon Fil Acayan and Antonio Tony Bataller. Therefore, the main concentration of this dramatic story is the nostalgia that goes on be...
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Alvin Ailey American Dance Dancers
675 wordsIn watching a professional ballet one doesn? t realize how much work is put into making the production come to life. Both the dancers and the choreographers put every ounce of energy and emotion into telling their story. It takes years for a ballerina to train for the labor that goes into becoming professional, however just weeks to learn a full-length ballet. Dancers can sometimes be put through months of sore muscles in order to train. Often ballet dancers are told to loose weight in order to ...
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