Dance Essay

interest of mine since i was five years old and began taking dance classes. Although I knew everything about learning and performing I had little knowledge about the choreographing process. I decided to learn these steps for my project to be able to construct my own dance in two years when I have my senior solo, as all seniors do at my studio. At the end of last year my dance teacher said if a fellow dancer and I wanted to choreograph our own dance for recital next year, she would definitely…

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…

Dance has been a part of my life since the age of 4. Every time I am onstage with the lights shining on me, I stand with a sense of pride and reflect that through all the long rehearsals I have finally made it. While dance has helped me make friends and stay healthy, it has also helped me learn many valuable life skills which I will apply to my future. Dance has taught me perseverance. When I started at my new dance studio, Royal Dance Academy, I was placed in a class with dancers who were my…

Hello, I’m Hannah Letarski and today I am going to talk to you about my passion. My passion is dance and I have been doing it for over 9 years and over those 9 years I learned about leadership, teamwork and problem solving. I danced at Get Out and Dance for 2 years and then switched to Wausau Academy of Dance. At Wausau Academy of Dance I joined a competition group called Strive, my first year was great and then my second year started going downhill I got placed in a group where I was dancing…

and competes for fun. Everyone when thinking of this always thinks about the basic guy jock sports, and never considers dance to fill one of these categories. But, there are numerous ways to prove those people wrong, right into the ground. Those are fixed mindset people who do not expand their horizons and poison your thoughts, anyways. Any way that you put a spin on it, dance is definitely, positively, a sport. The first reason that those ignorant people give, is “It is not even in the…

Ever since I was five, dance has been a huge part of my life and has taught me so many things that I will carry with me forever. Dance has taught me determination, confidence, dedication, and teamwork. It has given me many experiences that I will cherish for a lifetime. Determination and confidence. Over the past thirteen years I have learned to push myself to be the best that I can be. In life people always want to be at the top, and for some that comes easily; for others it takes hard work…

course is quite large. Everything on the stage is special even though I encounter a lot of trouble in the production process in fact. Also, I acquired knowledge and ability to create and critically interpret meaning through art, music, drama, and dance. All of these multiple formats of expression will be explained in detail in the following paragraphs. Music The performance I was responsible for editing music. The background music of our production is often used film music. For example, Up,…

Live Dance Performance Critique The performance that I went to see was Elevate at Lipscomb University. The show consisted of twelve different pieces choreographed by Maggie Pelton, Kari Smith, Tosha Pendergrass, Leigh Anne Ervin, and Curtis Reed. The performance showcased students who weren’t not necessarily even studying dance. I found that extremely surprising that Lipscomb even offered a program that allowed dancers to get involved. By doing sol, the talent was very diverse and defiantly…

I voluntarily teach dance at Nena Smith's School of Dance in Wesson, Mississippi. Every Tuesday from September through May I see around eighty kids Kindergarten through eighth grade. Teaching has made me a better person. It encourages me to be more outgoing and it builds my confidence. Teaching also allows me to build close relationships with the students I teach. In July of 2013, my dance teacher asked me to teach. Teaching dance is a dream i had for many years. I remember being so excited…

reading through the PowerPoint presentations I found that they really helped me have a better understanding of the ballet dance and how it originated. As we learned the very early beginnings of ballet originated in Rome. However, the very first ballet that we know of today happened during the crusades in 1581 and it was called Ballet Comique De La Reine. The main purpose of the dance was to flatter the French and nearby people and to remind people that the medics of Florence, Italy still…