Dancing Essay

Break dancing is a term that derived from mainstream media due to their ignorance and naïveté during the 1900’s and was promoted as a lowly culture. With no accurate knowledge of the hip-hop diaspora but with an indelible need to define it for the nescient masses, hence the term break dancing was created. Nonetheless, once hip hop dancers gained the attention of the media they produced inaccurate terminology in an effort to present the urban dance practice to the masses by creating a Westernized…

1. The genre of “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” is fairy-tale. It could also be describes as a short story or plainly, fiction. 2. The exposition of the tale is when the aspects of the 12 princesses and their shoes are described to the readers. How the princesses, “were shut and locked up” but, “their shoes were found to be quite worn” and the king's challenge, “if any person could discover the secret…[they] should be king after his death” (Grimm 1). Meaning there is a clear goal laid out to…

Dancing Gammill You can find Andrea Gammill at every game and every assembly. She’ll be dancing away with the Aquinas Dance Team wherever they may be. She can even be seen every Summer with her family in Florida. But, while she’s not doing that she can be seen hanging out and driving around with her best friend Hannah Presta. Andrea is a loving and dedicated person to everyone she sees. Andrea is on Varsity Dance Team and shows dedication every time she practices. She also enjoys spending time…

As I walked into the empty room next to Mrs. Moreland’s class, I saw sitting on the far side, John, Peter, and Francisco. They were waiting to begin my tryout for Triple Take. Once I stepped into the room, all my courage swam away scared off by a shark of fear. All the courageous comments I had told myself, and all the high hopes I had built up over the last two weeks just disappeared. Having to re-gather my full determination the best that I could, my feet carried to the main point of the room;…

Dancing Fool in School In the past I was an extremely bizarre schoolboy and performed abnormal actions to acquire interest from others at my elementary school like sporting a reddish helmet. Occasionally my muscle twitches caught the awareness of others. Young’uns approached me and questioned, “Why do you jerk your arms and feet like that?” I couldn’t expound it to them because I didn’t fucking comprehend it myself. Therapist Dan: “Do you recall the name of your medication by chance?” Me: “No,…

The form of “jazz dancing” has altered a lot over the last several decades, much like the rest of American Musical Theatre. Choreographers like Steven Hoggett (Once) and Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton) have taken their new conceptual ideas and formed them into dance styles that are now being seen in musicals around the world. However, the classic names of Broadway like Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett, Bob Fosse and Agnes De Mille have left their mark on the world of Musical Theatre dance forever.…

For twenty-two seasons Dancing with the Stars (DWTS) has showcased some of the most notable, controversial or even forgotten celebrities of the year. And while at first glance, the cast seems to represent rather diversified demographics, not all demographics are represented equally. There are three demographics to consider in the show: age, ethnicity and gender. While for the most part, these groups have remained consistent in terms of numbers throughout the years, the ratio of contestants who…

reviews are an integral part of the theatre, without reviews how do audiences know what they should go see and what they should avoid? The two examples of mass media chosen for comparision are two theatre reviews of the current stage musical ‘Dirty Dancing’. I chose to take the reviews from two different reviewers from different websites, Brian Godfrey for Glam Adelaide and Vito Mattarelli for Australian Stage. Glam Adelaide is a website which is dedicated to revewing and writing stories on…

put into practice as we become a multicultural educator. I gain valuable knowledge every chapter we read and makes me think deeper and ask questions that are being answered as we have the reading discussions in class. Chapter 11 “Footsteps in the Dancing Zone” by Mary Stone Hanley was about how the different cultures and how they are part of the history now day. I really likes the quote “Grana: Wasn’t no borders to the horrors” because it makes me think how people from other countries come to…

I was dancing in the snow. Frosty and Olaf were playing tag. Santa was playing fetch with Rudolph, and the other reindeer were getting jealous. They plotted to kill Rudolph. I noticed this and decided to try to stop them. When they were about to launch their attack, I ran behind them and using the Sword of Gryffindor, I slayed them all. Then I woke up. “Oh look, it’s snowing outside.” My mother and I made the trek towards the lake, all bundled up and ready to slide down a hill on a long…