Ballet shoes

I. The Nutcracker ballet is one of the most famous ballets in history. For many, it is a yearly tradition to watch or perform this well-known performance. This story starts on Christmas Eve with two siblings, Clara and Fritz, being led to see their presents. Clara instantly falls in love with a nutcracker soldier. After deciding to play with the doll, Fritz accidently breaks its bottom teeth. Clara becomes mad and cares for the nutcracker in the playroom. The clock strikes twelve and she…

Although classical ballet and hip hop bear some remarkable differences, the similarities between the two styles of dance are self-evident when observing the costuming, technicality, and entertainment of each style. Dance has always played an important role in any culture, from the Mayans to today’s modern society; individuals are continuing to express themselves through movement. Different styles of dance have derived from other forms of traditional dances such as ballet. Every style of dance…

The Hattiesburg native studied classical ballet at South Mississippi Ballet Theatre until she graduated from high school and since then she has been an instructor at On Your Toes Dance Studio. After starting Leaps of Faith in September…

my friends and I would be very superstitious. Often, we'd each have a small procedure we'd go through to calm our restlessness. I still remember the aroma of oranges and lemons that my friend, Mya, scented her pointe shoes with. She would put these miniature cushions in her shoes for every recital because the fragrance would always calm her nerves, and she "abhors the stench of smelly feet" so that's another reason there. Mine, while it wasn't as lavishing, it did its justice. Before each dance…

the 1800 found it hard to dance in pointe shoes because they were soft and weak, especially for turning and leaping. When a choreographer asked the dancers to do turns and leaps they were kind of stuck because they had to find a shoe that was soft enough for turning, and on the other foot a shoe hard enough for jumping. Many dancers used a softer pointe shoe on one foot and a much harder pointe shoe on the other foot. Today, ballerinas have pointe shoes that are soft enough to go through…

The modern ballet performance The Deep End exert 'swimming' is about Australians love for water. The piece is made of both modern ballet and contemporary. The dance could be interpreted in a couple of ways, either swimming in the beach or in a pool. The deep end was performed in 1996 by the Australian ballet and choreographed by Meryl Tankard. Meryl Tankard is one of Australia's greatest and most controversial choreographers. One particular move in section A of The Deep End was the circular…

recognized dance as something concrete. It was Barbie in the Nutcracker; a movie based on the classical Russian compositions and original ballet of The Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me into the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my…

W is for Wednesday On Wednesday night’s during the school year, I would have pointe class. I did this for two years, the years before I started pointe I did ballet classes. They are the same thing except point has the kind of shoes with a flat toe, so you can stand on your toes. I started point when I was about 11 and stopped doing it at the age of 13. One reason I stopped is because I didn’t enjoy it the way I used to. After my first year of pointe, I actually was gonna stop. What made me…

dance. My favorite types of dance is lyrical and ballet, I have class every Monday, and a recital every year. I like lyrical and ballet because they push your body to the limits. If you take pointe ballet you have to put all your body weight on your toes. Ballet is a form of self discipline. You have to make sure every part of your body is how it should be while doing a leap, or turn. Also I like lyrical because its like ballet but without the pointe shoes and the up tempo music. Dance enables…

Ballet dance therapy creates many benefits to the physically and mentally challenged. Ballet dance therapy is “The psychotherapeutic use of dance and movements to enhance communication of emotions and behaviors and also improve motor ability.” This form of ballet includes many techniques to help the person fight their disability. It involves mirroring the movements of the dance teacher therefore increasing movement vocab, the dance teacher imitating the patient, and touch therapy which includes…