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When I was seven, my ballet instructor told me that I have hyperextended knees. "It's great! All dancers want hyper extensions!" She assured. From that tender age, I always wondered. Is having what everyone else wants worth it? How much is the value increased? How much more desirable to you appear to others? From the time I was seven, I never really stopped thinking about the broad aspects of existence. I still incorporated my enjoyments into life, I just analyzed them far too much. When I was…

of shock, saying to me she thought it was all, “Just a phase”, and that , “You will flounder.” What she did not understand is the fact I had not floundered at all to this point professionally. But, that is one of the oddities of being a contracted ballet dancer - it is rare…

Blog #1- The Budding Creation of Ballet AnnieH By AnnieH on Oct 6, 2015 Close your eyes and recall a ballet performance you have seen before. Are you left in awe at the beauty and majestic elegance of the dancer’s work? Many other people enjoy both watching and performing this classic style of dance. The art of ballet has been practiced over many centuries, changing slightly every so often, but still retaining its majestic and graceful beauty every time. Ballet originated in the 15th century.…

I asked my dance teacher: "Can you teach me how to do a split?" She said: "How flexible are you?" I said: "I can make it Tuesday's and Thursday's" What exactly is flexibility? I can bend both meanings of the word into my life. I am both physically and mentally flexible. Ever since the age of 4, I have been wildly entangles with the beauty of dance. I don’t know whether the fascination came from the ballerina TV shows i used to watch, from the dancers I saw out in the streets, or whether I was…

Slowly walking through the multicolored road of ballet, when I looked back, I saw my step-by-step ballet growing footprints. When I was seven years old, I began to dance ballet for five years. This five-year experience was full of pain and joy. When I was 7 years old, I was sent by my parents to learn ballet. I was full of yearning, I really enjoyed the feeling of flying on the stage, more want to wear the white dress and shoes. I still remember when I first came to the dancing room, I was…

When I first came to class, it was truly frightening getting in front of people to move my body like I have never moved it before. Even the dance move to the number of syllables to our names was way scarier than it should have been. The amount of growth that I have personally made, and that everyone else has made is tremendous. Moving was much harder, much less fluid than it was at the end of the semester. The more and more that we practiced movements, such as the partner touch and blind…

The Risks and Effects of Ballet Ballet is an artistic dance which involves elegant movements, precise steps, and fancy gestures. With the use of pointe shoes, leotards, and determination, ballet dancers perform exquisite performances. However, before all the performances go on, difficult practices push these dancers to achieve very high standards. Ballet dancers practice until they believe they have reached perfection. Many times, this willpower causes dancers to go through terrible…

The Castle (1997), directed by Rob Sitch and Strictly Ballroom (1992), directed by Baz Luhrman both succeed in displaying the idea of Australian dreamers. They both to show that Australia is a land where working hard can make dreams come true. Scott, from Strictly Ballroom, dreams to win the Pan Pacific’s, and more importantly, to dance his own steps. Darryl, The Castle, just wants to keep living his simple life in his house with his family. While both ideals and characters vastly contrast, they…

Tuesday with Morrie. This book starts with Morrie Schwartz’s story. Professor likes dance. Every Wednesday night, he used to go to church in Harvard Square for something called “Dance free”. And he loved that acting. One day, his illness gets worse. He was tired in a moment when he walks. And he fall down more and more. After he goes to see doctors, he finally found that he got a brutal illness of the neurological system. This illness doesn’t have medicine and treat method. He can’t swim and…

1) Tupac concentrated on ballet and dance while in secondary school. 2) Tupac genuine name was Lesane Parish Crooks 3) Tupac was conceived in East Harlem, New York, on June 16, 1971. 4) Tupac was named after the South American progressive Túpac Amaru. 5) When he was 13, he played Travis Younger in A Raisin in the Sun. 6) He went to Baltimore School for the Arts, where he took artful dance classes. 7)…