Ballroom dance

setting. It was not until one of the actual dancers from the Ballroom Dance Club approached me and said, “Do you want to learn?” I found the courage to say, “Yes.” So, she pulled me into a corner of the Great Hall and we began…

As it pertains to our group dance project, I could not be happier with the outcome. I am on a team of like-minded people who all strive for success while also knowing how to enjoy the experience. Kloe, Nick, Maddie, and myself connected within the first few days of the course, united by our own novice background in ballroom dance. As our skill set grew, so did our companionship, and we were eager to work cooperatively on this final project. We were a bit worried when everyone was called to split…

Scott Hastings is an Australian Ballroom dancer who has dreams of winning the Pan Pacific Grand Prix 5 dance Latin American championship. While he is a great dancer, he has become frustrated with the restrictions placed on the dance steps, which are far removed from The Passionate American dance styles that originally inspired the ballroom steps. The film opens with a dance competition, a montage of shots showing beautiful dance couples taking the floor, this is cut with close up shots of Miss…

I attended the St. Ambrose University Dance Company Performance in the Rogalski Center Ballroom on Sunday, April 15th at 2pm. The dance company is a club here at St. Ambrose for students who may not have the time to fully commit to the dance team here at St. Ambrose. However, these individuals all share the love for dancing. Through this club they are able to continue to do so and practice dance without such a big time commitment. Although the time commitment is not as much, these six…

In the play“Master Harold”...and the boys by Athol Fugard, Sam teaches important life lessons by sharing physical and emotional lessons throughout the story to Willie and Hally, in order to suggest that one can gain the ability to accept others by following a role model. Sam teaches Willie how to Ballroom dance throughout the story, which is an example of Fugard showing Sam as the main teacher for Willie during the play. Sam, a great ballroom dancer, decides to teach his friend Willie the art in…

Each celebrity (roughly between 10-12 contestants per season on average) is paired with an award winning professional dancer, who teaches these rookie celebrities various dances such as the Waltz, Samba, Cha-cha, or Jive to name a few. Each week the couple performs their dance on live television with the hopes to score highly with the three judges and gain votes from the viewers, and continue on to the next week. The goal for both celebrity contestants and professional dancer is to win the…

gRACE I guess so. nATE Hmm. So who are you going with? Just the girls? gRACE Yeah...You'll laugh, Kelli suggested I should go with you. nATE Why not? gRACE I've got a boyfriend. nATE So? It doesn't have to be a date. We could just go as friends. gRACE Ok. I guess. nATE Plus, I'm a hell of a dancer. gRACE Really? nATE Latina girlfriend a few years back. She made me learn. Can't really do classic ballroom, but I can salsa like you wouldn't believe. gRACE (laughs) Alright then. Int. Ballroom dance…

second detention showed to have a very negative attitude towards ballroom dancing. This attitude then influenced their behaviour as they refused to ballroom dance. An example of behaviours influencing attitudes is when the students begin to dance, their attitude towards ballroom dancing changes. They begin to enjoy it and therefore their attitude is positive due to the influence of performing the dances. Functions of attitudes help enhance or protect someone’s self image via utilitarian,…

years old. This, in part, is due to our desire of to help eliminate stress in between the major test taking periods. This will allow graduates and undergraduates to experience a night of letting go of their worries and enjoying their time out at a live musical event for a reasonable price. With this intention, a handful of artists have agreed to team up with us to assist in creating the desired effect. We will be mixing genres and sounds in a way to appeal to an overarching audience, but still…

For the syllabus addition paper I chose the dance voguing. Created by gay Black and Latino Americans, voguing evolved out of Harlem in the 1980’s. Its origins date back to the 1930’s in the underground LGBT ballroom scene, where it was known as “performance.” Voguing was mostly done in ‘houses’, which are family-like collectives of members of the LGBT community, one of the most popular being The House of Xtravanganza in New York City (the mecca of voguing). Here, the dancers would strike poses…