Dancing Essay

In “Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts” by Jon Caramanica, the author describes the recent trend of people with criminal records becoming sensations in the hip-hop/rap community. The author keys in on three main factors as of why these troubling artists are becoming so popular. The hip hop community’s tolerance of complicated histories, lack of understanding their artists’ backgrounds, and young and misleading crowd stands as the author’s factors as to why these…

This week’s lecture by Professor Dan Gilbert and the excerpts of Tera Hunter’s works titled “Domination and resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta” and “Dancing and Carousing the Night Away” portrayed the role labor relations played in relation to inequality. It is quite interesting how the relations in the workplace mirror those in the community and across the nation. Tera Hunter discuss how workers challenged daily inequality in the workplace and Professor…

that I viewed was a Psychology Today article online called “Why Is Dancing So Good for Your Brain?” by Christopher Bergland, this article explored the many ways that dancing is beneficial to the life of the brain. This article presents how dancing can propose many things that can help while dancing by “blending cerebral and cognitive thought processes with muscle memory and ‘proprioception’ held in the cerebellum”. I learned that dancing can help the brain in many ways and eventually the dancers…

In the book, Dancing Through the Snow, by Jean Little, there are many different events that happen. These events, both small and big, leave you wanting to read more. In the book, the main character is a 12 year old girl named Min Randall. She has no family or no home, she is a foster child who is always jumping from house to house. Not after long, Min was back at Children’s Aid and this time it was a week before Christmas. Min, with no hope left, became very sad. Jess Hart was a former doctor…

This week, I decided to step out of my comfort zone, and I went Sophia's Dance Studio. In the dance studio, the Jennifer Mollenhauer instructed the belly dancing class. In belly dancing class, the instructor provides guidance, patience and educational in the class. The class schedule was recapped, stretching, fundamental movement, routine, and wind down. Personally, I like the class schedule. First off, I like how instructor shows the fundamental movement and explain the moves. The secondly, I…

we broke was dancing in public, and not just dancing, dancing baldy. In public people are supposed to behave civilly and keep to themselves. Dancing in public breaks this norm because it calls attention to oneself and distracts others from their tasks. Shoppers generally go to get their items as quickly and efficiently as possible. Going to a store to dance is not a normal activity one would participate in. It is a folkway because there isn’t any moral significance attached to dancing in…

truly belong means being able to be ourselves. Within the Ballroom Dancing community, there is a clear indication that there are people who do not belong. These people may try to belong, although they seek to break free of the conformity to the strict rules and regulations and fulfil their own individual dance style. Or characters may choose not to belong in an attempt to hide away, and although being part of the Ballroom Dancing world, they also have their own individual world…

us that, as leisure and recreation specialists, it is going to be our job to build better people. In this movie, dancing saved Billy’s life. He was on a path to be just like his father and brother, miserably working in horrific mining conditions. He could have easily gotten involved in the rioting and become a bitter person, but dancing gave him something to put his passions into. Dancing gave him an alternate path; it was crazy symbolic when Billy went off to London to attend school and his…

writing, singing, and many more. A way to express myself is through dancing. I don’t dance just because I can express myself, but I dance because it brings back memories. Memories that are very special to me because my aunt was the reason I started to dance. I remember her teaching me how to warm up my body before dancing, so I won’t hurt myself. My aunt also taught me how to become a choreographer and how to handle my dance team. Dancing is very special to me because it reminds me of my aunt.…

her pieces have costumes as an integral part. Choreography Wigman’s idea of dancing body and emotion in many respects depict that the emotions that derive dancing are not just mental ideas but they are physically embodied meaning the body moves in accordance to what it feels. Therefore, emotions are responsible for the development of vague elements that are possessed by great dancers. It follows therefore that free dancing is not subject to choreography but has elements of…