Concert dance

fourteen on November 15th. She attends school at St. Anthony’s of Padua. Anna is very friendly person that has a lot of friends such as Emma, Isabelle, and Kara. If she is not with her friends she is probably dancing at her dance company, California Arts Academy. She loves to dance on her free time. If you don’t see her dancing she is probably watching TV. Anna is not a school person. She said she kind of likes it. She doesn’t like doing test or homework. Like I said she goes to St. Anthony’s.…

began to take Eritrean cultural dance lessons in order to be part of the Eritrean festival dance performance. I have always wanted to excell in everything that I do, especially if it meant a lot to me. I did not expect that these dance lessons would provide me with the lesson of handling failure and criticism. The Eritrean dance performance gave me the opportunity to choreograph my own dance for the first time. Since I was experienced and practiced for this dance I thought I would have no…

In this article, “Changing Values in Cuban Rumba, A Lower Class Black Dance Appropriated by the Cuban Revolution,” by Yvonne Payne Daniel, quotes “To say, ‘We're all the same’ or ‘There is no racism in Cuba,’ is to mask difference and potentially to permit prejudice and discrimination to fester. Rumba illuminates the problems of the state in its attempt to link respect and prestige among all Cubans. Rumba performance, visually affirms the persistent reality of its origins in the nineteenth…

buffer zone is about arm’s length. Basically, it is long enough so if I stretch in any direction I should not be able to touch anyone. This measurement of space developed from my younger years in dance school. I was in dance school from the time I was five years old until I was eleven years old. In dance school they always had us stretch out our arms for distance and spacing. This was put in place to prevent anyone from getting hurt while we were moving around. The combination of this and my…

role in this musical, I did have a tap dance solo. However, I have never tap danced before, so I arranged with the director to have extra practices during the week just so I can learn how to tap dance. Not only did I schedule these extra rehearsals with the director, I helped out with a lot of the logistics behind the musical, such as painting sets, making announcements designing programs, and selling tickets. In fact, my director encouraged me to take tap dance lessons outside of school. The…

This week, I decided to step out of my comfort zone, and I went Sophia's Dance Studio. In the dance studio, the Jennifer Mollenhauer instructed the belly dancing class. In belly dancing class, the instructor provides guidance, patience and educational in the class. The class schedule was recapped, stretching, fundamental movement, routine, and wind down. Personally, I like the class schedule. First off, I like how instructor shows the fundamental movement and explain the moves. The secondly, I…

Have you ever met the first ever African American woman Olympian to win the all-around event? Her name is Gabby Douglas; she became an Olympian at the age of 14 and started a famous gymnastic career at West Des Moines, Iowa. After all, her hard work and effort brought her to become the first African American female athletic to win the all-around event. She also inspired many young and old diverse people around the world to compete in any important global activities. Gabrielle Douglas impacted…

Di Orio, Laura. “College Dance: Is It for Me?” Dance Informa Magazine, 7 Oct. 2015, www.danceinforma.com/2015/10/05/college-dance-is-it-for-me/. In her article, “College Dance: Is It for Me?” (2016), Laura Di Orio argues that going to college to study dance is important and useful, but that it is not the path for everyone. Di Orio supports her claim by including direct quotes from interviews she had conducted with four different professional dancers. The author’s purpose is to provide…

when she began dancing at the age of three. After years of intense practice, Mallett was accepted into one of London’s top theatre arts schools, The Italia Conti, where she received a BA in dance and theater arts. As for Mallett's career, she started out seeking an occupation in musical theater and dance, but later on she decided to pursue a career in exercise and exercise training. She has several fitness certifications including AFAA group certified fitness trainer, certified sports…

This movement grew from the idea that dance could go beyond simple entertainment: it could be used and be sued by people as a form of communication and expression of personal feelings. By the middle of the 20th century, the modern dance movement had paved the way for dance pioneers to develop the concept of dance therapy. Marian Chace, Mary Whitehouse, and Trudy Schoop were just a few pioneers of this emerging concept. By the 1940s, dance therapy was influenced by the psychodynamic theory…