Ballet Essay

would then perform them at local venues after countless hours of rehearsal. As I continued to get older I moved away from acting and more towards dance, I took lessons for three to four years of tap, jazz, and ballet. I loved performing and soon became very good, specifically at tap and ballet, at one performances my teacher wanted to incorporate a song into one of the routines, I was chosen to sing and dance. It was the first time that I had ever sung outside of church and the shower, I was…

(Xenia Goodwin). With the hope of getting back where she was, decisions and taking risks were made. In the audition for getting a contract in the National Ballet Company, an accident occurred where Tara broke her back because of marble that is placed on the stage while she was performing her piece. The catastrophe caused her life as a ballet artist to tumble down. While working at the Sydney Opera House as a waitress, Tara chose to give dancing a shot once more because of the power of words of…

From ballet and modern to hip-hop and jazz, today’s dance world is a dizzying array of different qualities, techniques, pedagogies, and artistic intentions. As dancers, we are told that the key to being a successful dancer in today’s world is versatility; yet, a dancer’s entire entity is often molded by the technique in which they primarily train. Therefore, it can be challenging to adapt and learn different styles of dance depending on the isms developed from training in a certain technique.…

arts was the music I listened to, two art museums and Bharatanatyam, a classical dance from India. Many events and readings later, I find myself with more insight in the arts. I have much more appreciation for all of the various arts, specifically ballet, opera, and the orchestra. Prior to this semester, I always held a biased disinterest in these types of performances due to the fact that I didn 't feel the need to cultivate an understanding in it by immersing myself in what they had to offer.…

recognized dance as something concrete. It was Barbie in the Nutcracker; a movie based on the classical Russian compositions and original ballet of The Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me into the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my…

Lisa Macuja Elizalde: ‘Remembered for a long, long time’ Lisa Teresita Pacheco Macuja-Elizalde was born on October 3rd, 1964. She became the first Filipina Prima Ballerina, and the first foreign soloist to join the Kirov Ballet company. In a speech given 30 years later on March 30th, 2015, she stands on a podium in front the class of 2015 Ateneo de Manila University and made history. There was a turning point in Elizalde life that made her the person she is today. Elizalde speech is effective…

Gertrude Shurr, a close friend and partner of May O’Donnell, once said about May that “she goes beyond stop and go, she flows”. This statement clearly dictates the quality of movement that May O’Donnell’s choreography and technique is meant to embody. In class we often talk about how to find continuous flow in our movement so it keeps growing even if the initial articulation of the movement is sharp, fast and dynamic. When watching the CBS special on May O’Donnell’s work, I was able to see that…

In our example, the visual message (the eye rolling and facial expression) does not agree with the audible message (the words being spoken). This is sarcasm and irony. Moreover, messages within the same medium can conflict to produce a “sarcastic” interpretation. For example, when someone is being sarcastic, their tone of voice (an audible message) conflicts with the words spoken (also an audible message); in this case the contradicting messages within one transmission medium result in a…

her new high school, she befriends a black girl named Chenille and falls for her brother, Derek. Chenille guides Sara in how to assimilate into her culture with her looks and language. Derek teaches Sara how to dance hip-hop and incorporate it into Ballet a bridge to them falling in love.…

on end. Her favorites were history, mythology, and astronomy but hated anything to do with arithmetic. She found school very boring and dull and was happy when she finished. There was always one lesson Audrey loved and anticipated: the day where a ballet master would teach a dance class for all the little…