Chicken Dance

The Firebird variation; the dancer développéd into an arabesque and arched their back. Technically, this move can be associated with several other dances, but is most commonly associated with The Firebird. I find it especially similar because both the animals were birds. The second dance I noticed was Danse Macabre. I remember this music from a dance Equilibrium performed in October and for recital. The last piece I recognized was The Swan, which I found similar to the variation Dying Swan. This…

learned as a student, I have grown as a person and a dancer. I believe that the outcome of the dance program is not only the degree, but life lessons and knowledge to excel in the real world. My long term career goals include performance and owning and operating my own studio/company. After college, I hope to perform and begin adding various professional endeavors to my dance resume. I would love to dance professionally…

Age-Appropriate Coaching: A Dance Perspective. There are many factors to keep in mind when coaching any type of sport. A specific factor that absolutely must be adhered to is age, which influences many performance capabilities both physically and psychologically (Crocker, 2011). In consequence, all coaches must adjust their instruction in order to maximize success of athletes. I have had the opportunity to work with youth from ages three to fifteen in a dance setting, which, after many failures,…

Dance Alabama is a program through the dance department that gives students of all majors to try out and participate in a dance production. It is generally students that grew up and danced throughout their childhood and high school years. The audition process is competitive so it is an honor for the performers that were chosen for this production. Some chosen continued to study dance at the university and others decided to pursue other interests but still have a passion for dancing. They…

with dance. After…

I have chosen to review the Alberta Ballet’s performance of Love Lies Bleeding for my dance production critique. Preceding the show I had relatively low expectations since I am not an Elton John fan and the show was set to his music and was inspired by his journey. Fortunately, my expectations were surpassed considerably. Love Lies Bleeding was a zestful, dynamic, and alluring theatrical experience unlike no other. This production was built on a strong foundation of classical ballet technique…

others. There’s people that dance for fun at parties, there’s people that like dancing a lot so they join a dance team, and there is people that love dancing so much that they even want to major in it. Also, there’s people that are born to dance; they don’t have to try that hard to be about to perform a dance move, and there’s people that have to practice a lot to be able to do a dance move. Well, I am in the middle. I like dancing a lot that I’ve joined dance teams, and I dance when ever I am…

Some pet peeves are absolutely enraging. One on my pet peeves happens to be incompletion. My mother has, on more than one occasion, began cleaning her seemingly tornado stricken bedroom only to get distracted by a shoe box full of high school memorabilia. Some people, including my mom, would blame this behavior on poor attention abilities. Personally, I blame her lack of perseverance. She tends to disagree with me because of our differing definitions of the word. I believe perseverance is the…

I felt uncomfortable as I looked around. Everything was so distant from what I was used to. I could the eyes looking at me wondering why I looked so distinct from them. I wasn’t that different from all of these people, but in their minds, I was completely diverse. Being in Tanzania, I learned that these contrasts can stand out. Even though I wasn’t that different from them, they thought I was important and special. My favorite experience in Tanzania was visiting a school named Lutangilo…

In the Winthrop Dance Theater 2015, the Little Swans was choreographed by Marius Petipa and restaged by Mia Cunningham. During this piece the type of music played was “Swan Lake” by Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky in 1896. Little Swans is considered to be the first of two excerpts from an adaptation of Petipa 's version of “Swan Lake.” This particular piece was in the genre of ballet and was performed by five females, and no males. The costumes these females wore consisted of them wearing a white tutu,…