Dance moves

first combo class. With young minds, come young thoughts that can be falsely advertised through any media source. Dance especially, harmful risks are hidden behind the beautiful artwork. When asked the question, “What is your knowledge of a dancer’s body image?” High school students answered what they thought based on stereotypes and media because they have no educational background of dance. Anthony Williams, Stephen Schmidt, and…

Wide Sport If you’re a dancer, you’ve had people ask you what sport you play. Obviously you respond by saying, “I’m in dance.” Or, you hear people state that dance is not a sport. That just trips your trigger. You automatically want to defend yourself, but you don’t know what to say. I’m here today to help you defend the world of dancers! There are multiple reasons why dance is a sport but here a few of my favorites, you have less of a chance to get osteoporosis, it helps with body…

Throughout “The Sleeping Beauty - Bluebird and Princess Florine pas de duex”, the movements displayed are quite elegant and flowy. Within the piece the movements are complimented by the dancer’s intentions making each turn and leap into something greater and remembered. For example, the pique turns done by Princess Florine when she enters brings the elegance of her character and shows her pride through the movements which leaves an everlasting impression on the audience. Another example is the…

Called, "The Mother of Dance", Isadora Duncan was one of the most influential dancers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her technique was a precursor to modern dance and she became very popular in Europe for her naturalistic approach to dancing and performances to classical music. She faced many struggles throughout her lifetime, with her children dying after their nanny had accidentally driven into the Seine River and her husband committing suicide. Then, not much later, Isadora died…

and gentlemen, I would like to welcome you to witness…” the announcer started. The once noisy, chattering room was now silent with anticipation. No one in the audience knew what they were going to witness, all they knew was that Step Afrika was a dance group. The room was electrified from the audience's curiosity. While the voice announced Step Afrika, the room became dark, and when the lights came back up a group of people had silently moved to the middle of the black wooden stage. This…

your food? Now you can imagine my shock when that happened to me this summer. I was hired by a sleep-away camp to be the dance instructor for the entire summer and I worked successfully for the entire first trip. Then, on the first day of the second trip I found two girls in my dance room, using my equipment, and enjoying themselves immensely. They told me that they were the dance instructors. I could not believe it; it felt like my whole world was turned over. I just knew this must be a mistake…

November 7 was called FRESH Bites at the Artery. The director and choreographer of FRESH Bites is Judy Bejarano and the name of the company is IMPACT Dance Company. Costumes were created by Judy Bejarano and Jeremy Colvard, graphic designer was Stanley Scott, and the photographer was from Todd McCarty. The dance was difficult to understand but the dance was about loss, memory, and finding a path to home. There were three courses during FRESH Bites: the appetizer (loss), main course (memory),…

the mini dancers get their hair into french twists; somehow, I always find time to take a deep breath and organize my thoughts. Regardless of how crazy things can get, dance has always been a get away for me. Even though I am at the studio to learn all I can, and compete, it seems to be relaxing for me. Growing up at Caledonia Dance Company has brought so many opportunities my way, and I hope to do the same for young aspiring dancers in the future. I have big dreams of creating a less crazy,…

frequently alluded back to his adolescence and, as seen find in this sonnet, his dad. Judging by the title, the poem is expected to be a sweet story of a little boy admiring his father’s dance. The poem is of an awful experience, the beating of a child by his dad, which is told in a sentimental and innocent dance – the waltz. The writer is driven around the house, not beaten around. Given such bounds the narrator introduces some kind of unwinding, keeping in mind the subject, the beating, more…

When I was four-year-olds, I was placed into dance classes at the Dance Unlimited Studio in Paradis, Louisiana. I meet most of my phenomenal friends in dance class; especially my great friend Maddie. Maddie was two grades above me, so when I was an eighth-grader, she was a sophomore at my current high school. One day during dance class, she hurled her whole body upon me for a hug and squealed in excitement. "Guess what!?" she exclaimed. I replied with a distorted face, and my mouth ajar. "Guard…