Classical ballet

Ballet is the one of the most traditional form of dance. There is a lot about ballet that people don’t know, such as the history. Do you know what it took to get the art form to what it is today. Then again, maybe you didn’t know that the pointe shoe didn’t always look like what it is now. Did you know that for almost every ballet company you have to meet certain bodily attributes in order to be a part of the company? Ballet and just dance in general is the way that humans first shared our…

How I got into ballet Just a few moments before conquering the stage with intimate sincerity, I could feel my hands shaking mad, but I knew my soul was about to descent to heaven. Right after opening my eyes I felt every single note of the melody in every part of my body. I start flitting about the stage as would a sparrow. They wield the weapon of beauty with the grace, seemingly trained in the art of flawlessness. Whirling an inch off the floor as would a sycamore leaf just about to hit the…

Ballet Unlocks the Door to Learning by Enhancing and Improving the Students’ Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Skills At the age of three children are beginning to explore the world around them and they begin formal schooling and most children are put into dance class. At this stage in their life they begin to figure out who they and continue to discover how they fit into the world around them. Movement in dance classes allows for a regulated way for children to become aware of their…

Jicamarca, Peru I was extremely excited to be a part of the team being shipped off. Before going to Peru we were put through a “special” type of training. During this training we were taught what we were going to be speaking about, a skit, and a ballet dance. So when we went to Peru we would be ready for anything, at least that’s what I thought. Traveling to Peru was intense, we left Fort Myers to go to Miami at 5am, got to Miami around 8am and waited for our international flight to Panama that…

be on stage, gaining recognition one day? Ballet dancers take joy in controlling their bodies, but they can only perform difficult steps after many years of training. Normally, dancers…

Indian girl who loved dancing to ballet. She had amazing talent, but sometimes she was faced with prejudice.During her career, she changed her name to Maria, but she left her last name “Tallchief” because she had much pride in it. Betty Marie “Maria” Tallchief was truly a woman of two worlds.Ballet usually took the shy feeling away from because she loved it so much. Betty Marie was an amazingly talented girl ,who loved ballet. In the passage, it states that “ballet brought her out of her…

Have you ever seen the Nutcracker ballet during Christmas time? Or have you danced for years and are finally deciding to dance on pointe? Ballet has been for hundreds of years and is still important to many people today. One of the main parts of ballet is pointe shoes. Pointe shoes are worn by all of the female dancers, except very young girls. The most important parts of the pointe shoe are the box; the end of the shoe that has pieces of cardboard and fabric glued densely together to support…

society to ditch the fine arts and go towards an academic profession. Many people believe that having a college degree or a PhD is practical and reliable: the demand for ^ jobs are high, while the demand for dancing jobs are exponentially decreasing. Ballet companies are shedding dancers; they aren’t hiring them. In our society, people who aspire to become lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc. are seen as intelligent, sophisticated, and, overall, better than everyone else who isn’t. They tend to…

The two clips I chose to compare and contrast were an NYC jazz and contemporary company’s performance of “Steam Heat” choreographed by Lisa Donmall-Reeve and Lindsey’s Stirling’s performance of a Les Miserables medley. Both clips exhibited a high degree of musicality and grabbed my attention almost immediately. They incorporated lighting and costuming with an incredible mastery to enrich the performance. I highly enjoyed the music that accompanied both dances and thought that the choreography…

I attended the performance entitled, Urban Ballet, at the Houston City Dance Studio. The studio is located near the Heights of Downtown Houston. Unbeknown to me, the show I saw on Saturday was their last performance. It consists of assorted styles of dance depicting the struggles of being an African-American using the music of Tupac. The Houston City Dance Studio is a nonprofit dance school and performing arts organization offering classes in ballet, jazz, tap, and modern dance. It was founded…