Billy Graham

Choreography Mathew Bourne depicts a classic ballet type of dancing that was merely represented among the male type of dances in Britain. The theoretical dance moves represent an artistic technique of dancing elements that includes costume, music and stage scenery (Johnson, 2006). However, the moves are an expression of a typically female type of dancing but performed by completely male dancers. The idea of using totally male dancers represent a certain symbol of masculinity and the gay culture.…

In my world, the sesamoid bone is pushed to unusual extremities, the ankles are turned out to a slightly less than perfect one-hundred and eighty degrees, and the back is always straight as can be. While it can be painful and so far has caused me a stress fracture, hyperextended elbow, and chondromalacia in both knees, it is what I fell in love with, and so have many others. The art of dance has been around since 3300 B.C. in paintings and as a way to pass stories through the generations. It…

In the film Save the Last Dance as well as Street Dance 3D, dance establishes the different social classes present through an ongoing theme of inter-class conflict, specifically between the lower and upper classes. In Save the Last Dance, the main character, Sarah, is a white female and ballet dancer who is of upper middle class. Her social class is apparent through her ballet because it is perceived as being dominant and a high art form that is costly and often exclusive to certain incomes…

Victoria C. Acosta April 17, 2017 Intro to Dance Hozhoni Days Powwow Hozhoni Days Powwow actually means "Days of Beauty." This Navajo name is Its Navajo name has superbly became the older name running up against the Hozhoni Days. The Hozhoni Days are a month long of pageantry, guest speakers, powwowing/dancing, and the celebrating of all of the different cultures that attend our beautiful Fort Lewis campus. Here at Fort Lewis, we also have the greatest tradition that is student lead/driven…

The story of an innocent murderer tells the tale of a man who truly believed his intentions were good, but as he delved deeper into the hole, he suddenly realized that he had helped kill hundreds. In The Quiet American by Graham Greene, Alden Pyle’s character proves to play a vital role in promoting the central theme of the novel, moral ambiguity. The narrative’s title stays true in describing this young American’s personality as being docile, preserved, introverted, and most of all quiet…

Jarrett J. Krosoczka speech “Why lunch ladies are heroes” that was featured at a TED conference in July 2014. Krosoczka Explain that lunch ladies are not just lunch ladies all the time they have a life too, and we sure appreciate them. Krosoczka created a kids book called lunch ladies this graphic novel series change kids not about lunch ladies made them look up to the lady serving the food every day. He wants the reader to take the lunch ladies what they do because if think you can change your…

From ballet and modern to hip-hop and jazz, today’s dance world is a dizzying array of different qualities, techniques, pedagogies, and artistic intentions. As dancers, we are told that the key to being a successful dancer in today’s world is versatility; yet, a dancer’s entire entity is often molded by the technique in which they primarily train. Therefore, it can be challenging to adapt and learn different styles of dance depending on the isms developed from training in a certain technique.…

There are so many styles of dance today and very many of them were either from the beginning of dance or rooted from the very first styles many years ago. Some styles that are very popular today are Ballet, Jive, Hip Hop, Quickstep, Tango, Tap, Salsa, Swing, Lyrical, Contemporary, Jazz, and Charleston. Believe it or not, those are only very few of the many types of dance. An interesting fact about the history of dance is that the oldest proof of existence of dance actually comes from the 9000…

Modern Screendance In the early days, there were no cuts or frame changes and no editing, past painting the film to enhance the set, a technique used in Fuller’s Fire Dance. By the 1950s, dancers became even more interested in film as a tool and it became a participant in the process of choreography. Artists like Maya Deren and Merce Cunningham started creating new dance works that manipulated time and space so radically that the dance could no longer exist without the camera to view it. Modern…

Isadora Duncan was born on May 26 1877 or may 27, 1878 she was the youngest out of her four siblings, Augustin Duncan, Raymond Duncan and Elizabeth Duncan who was also a dancer. After Isadora's birth, her father was in illegal bank dealings, and the family became extremely poor. When she was an infant her parents divorced and her mother moved to Oakland where she worked as a piano teacher. From the age 6 to ten Isadora went to school but dropped out, since her family was poor her and her three…