Choreography

Throughout my childhood, I’ve watched many famous fairy tale movies that I still admire until this day. One of my favorite fairy tale movies tells the story of a young maiden girl named Cinderella who lived with two horrible stepsisters and one evil stepmother who found her way to her true love and happiness with one fairy godmother and one glass slipper and lived happily ever after. However, many people, rather than getting the magical ending like Cinderella, do not get the happily ever after…

land as far away from “the Box” as possible. But at the same time, still keep the succinct execution of moves and the magic of the original piece by Tchaikovsky. Mark Morris adds his style of challenging traditional gender roles in dance and his choreography of this piece, show case his creativity, imagination, and whimsical attitude toward dance.…

Dancing in the Spotlight Standing in the spotlight is a very frightening, gut-wrenching accomplishment. Dancing alone in the spotlight can be even more so. I experienced dancing in the spotlight two years ago, when I played the part of Clara in the Nutcracker. Of course, it all started with dance, or rather, without dance. My mom was driving me to the studio, but I was not feeling well, so she strode inside to inform my teacher I was unable to dance that day. When she walked back out, Mother…

around my head and garbed in the utmost ill fitted white spandex clothing, I performed in my first musical. Being on stage somehow translates into being unapologetic and living purely through instinct for me. So, in moments of my delivery of the choreography flawlessly, putting all the other lollipops to shame, a star was born. From a young age, my brown hair and urge to wear plaid button-up shirts with sweatpants made me different from the crowd; I always seemed to find myself alone on the…

Artistic Genre 1: Ballet Artistic Genre 1: Ballet Ballet is an artistic dance form which was introduced in the 1500, It includes lots of technical movements and slow paced music. A ballet routine is made up of soft flowing movements from the arms and legs and can be performed with what is called pointe shoes which is made up of layer of materials. Pointe shoes allow ballerinas to dance on the tips of their toes which make their movements look slower and softer. Ballet is an artistic form of…

guess is that those choices were made in order to give to this group a kind of uniformity and cohesion among the members. Finally they have two pom poms, one on each hand, the pom poms were silver and maroon which matched also with the uniform. The choreography was performed in a repetition of hands up, hands down, both hands to the side, then each hand move to each side.…

Is being a vegan dancer safe? I trust that being a vegan dancer is safe, in light of the fact that there are numerous alternatives of equivalent or greater than for all nutrients that are found in meat. Additionally I trust that being a vegan is a more beneficial direction for living and addition to personal health benefits, you’ll be sparing many animals every year daily from suffering and helping to promote a “greener” future by reducing your individual carbon footprint. Following a vegan diet…

Childhood to Womanhood The day every hispanic/ latina awaits had finally come my way. Attending so many Quinceañeras throughout my lifetime helped me create a more vivid idea of what I wanted. I became almost obsessed with the idea of having a Quinceañera after seeing how perfect my special day could turn out. it's the first and only event in a girl’s life that transitions her from childhood to womanhood. I remember like if it was yesterday when i attended my last Quinceañera, I was about…

2. Katherine Dunham was an extraordinary artist, an anthropologist, author, activist movie star, producer, manager, an educator as well as a motivating wife and mother. She was born on June 22, 1909 in the state of Chicago. Her father is African American and her mother is French Canadian. Even as a child Katherine Mary Dunham was always a rule breaker. She always took that one step out of the boundaries and changed everything for the better. When Katherine Dunham was young she used to sing…

classes, most of her students began showing signs of emotions that were mostly shyness and fear. Chace began encouraging her students to focus more on the freedom and the expressionism, rather than telling her students to focus on the technique and choreography. As Sharon Chaiklin of the American Dance Therapy Association states “ pediatricians and psychiatrists were sending her their patients for classes because she was an original thinker who evolved a theory of clinical practice using basic…