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Tupac Shakur Hip Hop
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West Side Story Romeo And Juliet
1,677 wordsAndy Warhol once said, "They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself. " Two hundred fifty years passed between the original Romeo and Juliet and the premiere of West Side Story on Broadway in 1957. However, time did not change the message of the story, simply the creators unique visions evolved. Shakespeare's delivery of the timeless tale of desperate love in his classic Romeo and Juliet proves to only intensify through retelling and modern interpretation. Aud...
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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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Periods Of Time Dance Clubs
1,109 wordsIt is estimated that 94. 1 million Americans of the age 12 or older has used an illicit drug at least once in their lifetimes, one of those drugs being Ecstasy. Ecstasy (a. k. a. Es, New Yorkers, White Doves, Disco Burgers, Love Doves and Dennis the Menace) was invented in 1914 as a prescription drug, used to reduce appetite and introduced in 1981 to teens in America, who started using it as a recreational drug. It is estimated that one and a half million Es are taken every weekend (mostly in te...
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Writing Write Dance
599 wordsIn his Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope states that, True ease in writing comes from art, not chance / As those move easiest who have learn to dance. Not only do I agree with Popes statement, but I extend his idea to say that my writing is a dance. My writing is the dance of the pen and the paper. It is the crowd of strangers brought together by a common dance, or the lone man dancing naked in front of a bathroom mirror. Each may be graceful and elegant, but each may also strike with crassness...
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Kabuki Theatre In Japan
1,187 wordsThree characters referring to dance, music, and skill represent kabuki in the Japanese language. Kabuki is the traditional Japanese form of theatre. Tradition has it that kabuki was founded in 1603, in the Edo period, by a Shinto priestess named Okuni. Dressed like man, she and her troupe of mainly women performed dances and sketches on a stage set up in the riverbed of the Kamogawa River in Kyoto. Kabuki theatre, in contrast with older Japanese art forms such as Noh, was cultured for the townsp...
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Dance Dance Revolution Dance Revolution Game
450 wordsSince this is a music game the quality of music is probably the most important factor in the game. The songs for the most part are very good. There is a house / european slant to the music, since european is popular in Japan. Songs like 'Hyper European' and ' 1998 ' are very energetic and make you want to get up and move. There are some slower Hip Hop and R& B songs like 'Put Your Faith in Me' and 'Try 2 Love U'. Latin Music is also being included into the game. 'Gamelan de Couple' (from Kon...
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William Blake Todays Society
1,205 wordsThe Value of Art Introduction: Art is a relevance of artists creation that reflects the ideas, experiences and main characteristic, which has enthusiastic worth. Art has been recognized before language is written. Devoted artists create art, which leaves an emotional impact on society. The art changes as human society advanced into steadier commune. In other ways, art is observed as the entryway to the skill of civilization. Art is the monopoly of humans because none of other living things on th...
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War In Iraq Hip Hop
745 wordsHow Break Dancing is being used as a political vehicle. Dancing is one of the oldest ways to express emotions. It is unknown where and when first dance was actually danced. Maybe this happened in some cave after the successful hunt on mammoth, nobody knows. Dance can be relaxing, or seductive, or angry, or sad. Like a code written on the body, dance is an essay, epic, novel, or poem about culture articulated through the vehicle of the body. Pointing out gender, ethnicity, and class as an inheren...
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382 wordsBreakdancing a form of African American dance that emerged from the hip hop culture of the South Bronx, New York, during the mid- 1970 s. Drawing upon several African American dance forms, break dancing coalesced in the 1970 s and reached its peak in popularity during the 1980 s. Breakdancing developed out of the Bronx, New York, disco scene. When disco DJs changed records, dancers would fill the resulting musical breaks, or breakbeat's, with movements that emphasized the rupture in rhythmic con...
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Brazilian Folk Dance Brazilian Folk Dance That Started Capoeira
597 wordsEvery country has one or more folk dances. Each one is performed differently than the other, although they might have originated from similar backgrounds. One dance that particularly captures my attention is the Capoeira. The Capoeira is a Brazilian folk dance that started out as a fierce form of self-defense and has now become a friendly dance between a circle of people. To better understand and familiarize with the Capoeira we must learn how and where it originated, the ways it has evolved, an...
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Slave Labor Twentieth Century
2,534 wordsCapoeira is the common name for the group of African martial arts that came out of west Africa and were modified and mixed in Brazil. These original styles included weapons, grappling and striking as well as animal forms that became incorporated into different components and sub styles of the art. In 1500 s the Portuguese, led by explorer Pedro Alvarez Cabral, arrived in Brazil. One of the first measures taken by the new arrivals was the conquering of the local population, the Brazilian Indians,...
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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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Standard Of Living Dorothy Parker
2,284 wordsDorothy Parkers writings are connected to her life in many ways. She grew up in a time where womens roles where changing in society. She spent most of her life in New York City and most of her stories setting are of that city. She was married young and divorced in a short time, just as the Hazel in The Big Blonde. She was outgoing, sarcastic, and witty in a time when women were supposed to be docile. This style is shown throughout her work but particularly in The Waltz, where the status quo is d...
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Dance Floor Feel Comfortable
1,172 wordsHow To Pick Up In A Club Audience: Males between the age of 14 25, who enjoy dancing, drinking, and having fun. Purpose: To advantage those who, unlike me, have troubles with confidence, looks, and overall charm. Having trouble picking up at clubs? Are you sick and tired of being the odd one out when you go to clubs, when all your friends pick up and for some reason you hesitate. If you are finding this a major problem and no matter how much you try, you still cant put yourself up to it, then th...
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Performing Arts Film Festival
1,157 wordsChina, Korea, and Japan have been historically close for centuries, thus accounting for their numerous common artistic traditions. From pre-Christian times until the 8 th and 9 th century AD, the great trade routes crossed from the Middle East through Central Asia into China. Hinduism, Buddhism, some knowledge of ancient Greek, and much knowledge of Indian arts entered into China, and thence in time into Korea and Japan. Perhaps before Christ, the Central Asian art of manipulating hand puppets w...
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1,616 wordsLa Sylphide La Sylphide brought more than just another ballet into the world. It marks the beginning of a remarkable period of time the Romantics. Up until this time in history, ballets were relatively predictable and in no ways a challenge to the status quo. Often times they consisted of the pavane, social dances, and the like (Anderson 38). Of course, ballet had evolved, but it had by no means, been a challenge to society. La Sylphide began to alter this concept. The setting is France in 1832....
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2,286 words[Currently, " The Waltz" is probably Parkers best known and most frequently anthologized short story. Two female voices, an external compliant one, and an internal critical one, construct the tale of a couples dance. The story also generates the most critical and scholarly attention as well as differences of opinion. Below are brief excerpts from the critical discussion surrounding this story presented chronologically. They are designed to give you not only a taste of the variety of re...
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First High School Dance High School Dance Life
412 wordsThe short story Red Dress by Alice Munro is about a young girls first high school dance. Her home and school environment determined her attitude towards the dance. This girls home life was bad. She was constantly put down mentally by her mother, even in front of her friend Lonnie, to the point that the narrator envied Lonnie on account that her mother died and she lived alone with her father. I doubt if she appreciates it. She enraged me, talking like this to Lonnie, as if Lonnie were grown up a...
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Visual Arts Performing Arts
1,726 wordsWhether it be on canvas, in sculpture, theatre, movements of dance, or any other medium, the spark of artistic creativity is strong in Sudbury. This strength is demonstrated so passionately in the recording, performing and visual arts that it is evident that there is, indeed, hope for the arts in Sudbury. To begin, Sudbury has certainly been alive with the sound of music over the years. A recent example is this summer s many charity sponsored downtown music festivals. Some of these include Takin...
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