A Modern Instance

Margot Fonteyn Margot was born on the 18th May 1919 with the name Margaret Hookham (Margot Fonteyn was a stage name). She was born in Reigate but later died of cancer on 21st of February 1991 in Panama City, Panama. She started ballet lessons at 4 years old in Ealing before she moved to China with her family to study in Shanghai for about 6 years. At age 14 she returned as her mother wanted to give her a chance to develop her ballet career and she done so by joining Sadler’s Wells School.…

“The human body is very beautiful and eloquent, it is to be treasured, honored, and disciplined”. This is how Martha describes the human body in the video “A Tribute Martha Graham”. Martha Graham is one of the greatest dancers to have graced planet earth. She makes dancing looks easy, delightful, and glamorous; she is such an awesome choreographer to watch on stage. According to Gregory Peck, Martha is absorbed in the magic of movement and her main goal when she dances is proper movement in…

The artist I picked was Diego Rivera. Rivera was born on December 8th, 1886 and died on November 24th, 1957. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico and deceased in Mexico city at the age of 71. Rivera was a Mexican Artist that made beautiful and inspiring murals. In his youth, he went to Paris for art school. He met many popular artists from his time there. He was very accomplished in making so many famous murals. Some of the murals he made were on public buildings and were made for the poor. A lot of…

something" (Revolutionary Road). He felt a need to tell his wife due to his mind conforming to modern civilizations standards of feeling guilt after committing this act. If society did not conceive such a rigid setting, a culture of people having multiple intimate relationships is bound to transpire. To Freud, he believed that it is in human nature that an individual would have multiple partners, but it is modern culture that solidified these strict rules against it. He wrote, “Present day…

The two choreographers draw from stripping down classical movements by investing in the possibilities of what ballet can become. Classical ballet is founded on principles of the body. Some distinctive features include turnout of the outward rotation of the legs, positions of the feet with emphasis on flexibility and the point of the foot. Some of Balanchine’s innovations of classical ballet include the action of the extended foot, the extension of hands to the end of the fingertips, the tilting…

Picasso underwent throughout his artistic career, much of which can be considered dynamic and against the grain, was truly remarkable. Canaday’s use of the term decisive, for me, was probably most poignant. This is because Picasso’s work, just like modern art in general, can be very schismatic. People either love it or hate it. B) From the reading I determined that Picasso underwent six stylistic…

strong foundations for modern languages through the Great Vowel Shift, Old English, and early and late Modern English. One of the most significant events in the development of the English language is the Great Vowel Shift. The history of the English language began when the…

Swan Lake has been performed throughout the world for more than a hundred years by major ballet companies and famous ballet dancers. It is a satisfying saga of love, longing, betrayal, death, and transcendence, brought to the stage with beautiful choreography and wonderful music. According to Juhasz, although companies have usually made changes to Petipa and Ivanov’s nineteenth-century choreography to suit the aesthetic of the time or a particular choreographer’s vision, all in all most versions…

There are many styles of dance, and they all require different skill sets. The two styles of dance that I am discussing today are both styles that tell a story on stage over multiple hours, introducing many different characters and having a beginning, middle and end. However, going to see, and training to perform in ballet and musical theater are two very different experiences. Ballet is one of the oldest dance styles and, while it tells a story, there is no speaking, singing or any other words…

racism has changed in the modern age to three new forms of racism that were referred to as ‘modern racism’, ‘averse racism’ and ‘symbolic racism’. It also notes that according to 1998 data, racism is one of the most divisive and ingrained forces America is confronted with, and that many people aren't even aware their actions are racist in part because of the still long lasting legacies of the racism. Summery The article notes that one of the ways that racism is displayed in modern times is by…