Di Orio, Laura. “College Dance: Is It for Me?” Dance Informa Magazine, 7 Oct. 2015, www.danceinforma.com/2015/10/05/college-dance-is-it-for-me/. In her article, “College Dance: Is It for Me?” (2016), Laura Di Orio argues that going to college to study dance is important and useful, but that it is not the path for everyone. Di Orio supports her claim by including direct quotes from interviews she had conducted with four different professional dancers. The author’s purpose is to provide information about the pros and cons of both choosing to dance in college and not continuing your dance education at the collegiate level in order to help young dancers get a better understanding of what the right journey is for them as an individual. Given the
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Holmes uses the experiences of three dancers to develop and support her claim by demonstrating that some dancers are ready to become professional when they graduate high school, while others need more time to mature so it is beneficial for those ones to go to college. It is clear that her purpose is to provide examples of different journeys of people who don’t all become professional dancers, but all share a passion for dance, in order to reveal that there are basically endless possibilities of incorporating dance into your life. Harrison indicates that those ways could be to study dance in college, join or a professional company, or just even teach or work with dancers for a living. Her intended audience appears to be dancers of any age who are still uncertain about what they want to do with dance and who just need a little more guidance on how to get to where they want to be in their dance …show more content…
Lee backs this claim up with descriptions of different methods and tips that dancers can take to make their dreams become a reality, meanwhile, pointing out that potentially not every method will work for every dancer. His purpose is clearly to guide inexperienced dancers and give them advice in order to help them discover that it may be daunting to figure out exactly what you want to do with your dance career, but that you just have to trust the process and go out into the world and create your own opportunities. Lee establishes a supportive relationship with his intended audience because he wants to encourage people to keep dancing, no matter what journey they decide to
Holmes uses the experiences of three dancers to develop and support her claim by demonstrating that some dancers are ready to become professional when they graduate high school, while others need more time to mature so it is beneficial for those ones to go to college. It is clear that her purpose is to provide examples of different journeys of people who don’t all become professional dancers, but all share a passion for dance, in order to reveal that there are basically endless possibilities of incorporating dance into your life. Harrison indicates that those ways could be to study dance in college, join or a professional company, or just even teach or work with dancers for a living. Her intended audience appears to be dancers of any age who are still uncertain about what they want to do with dance and who just need a little more guidance on how to get to where they want to be in their dance …show more content…
Lee backs this claim up with descriptions of different methods and tips that dancers can take to make their dreams become a reality, meanwhile, pointing out that potentially not every method will work for every dancer. His purpose is clearly to guide inexperienced dancers and give them advice in order to help them discover that it may be daunting to figure out exactly what you want to do with your dance career, but that you just have to trust the process and go out into the world and create your own opportunities. Lee establishes a supportive relationship with his intended audience because he wants to encourage people to keep dancing, no matter what journey they decide to