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road trip from our small town to New Orleans, but we had to make a pit stop beforehand. We had to get breakfast, the most important meal of the day. As a ritual we always would stop by McDonalds for breakfast. Now we are finally on our way to the dance competition in New Orleans. We were approaching the causeway and all I could think about was the day ahead of me. The drive across the causeway was very protracted. I was super anxious to get to where I was going. From looking out the window it…

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),…

times. Other athletes like football, softball and soccer players, wouldn’t really consider dance a sport, but believe me, it is. Training to be the worlds best will be worth the pain, tears and sweat in the end. Butterflies circle around in my stomach as I think about the plane ride to Florida! On April 25th, my team and I will take the worlds stage, to compete to become the worlds best open coed hip-hop dance team. This Monday is not a normal practice; we compete in Orlando, Florida, in 5…

"Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind"-Arlene Croce. Choreography is the sequence of steps and movements in dance or figure skating, especially in a ballet or other staged dance. It is the art or practice of designing choreographic sequences or the written notation for a choreographic sequence. Most of the time choreographers are used in a musical of some sort. They control the dancing and most of the movement you see happening. Even the sex scenes that you see in a play or movie is…

Chapter 1 One, two, three, four, Grand jeté. I focus on my steps which echo on the stage in unison with the calm beat of the music. This is it, the moment I have been preparing for non-stop for months. I am dancing Swan Lake. My name is Odette. Alright, so my name isn’t actually Odette, it’s Annie. The boring, brunette, ballerina who likes to escape into fantasy lands such as the land of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, or Cinderella. However, the only way I can do this is through my dancing. This is…

I knew from the moment I walked in to Sleepy Hollow park in Des Moines that I was going to have a good time. I was there for the Renaissance Faire during the Pirates and Wenches week. The smell of food and the sound of chatter was heavy in the air as a man dressed as a knight gave us a wristband, confirming that we had paid to get into the fair. I grinned at Sydney, and she smiled back, our excitement showing. My parents talked about the events as they looked over the schedule, but I wasn’t…

body. Occasionally a grass skirt was in order, but only for the hula dances. However, for the rest of her time Keke's wardrobe consisted of her bikini and bare feet. She had naked toes, with an absence of nail polish. Her feet had a few scars on them from the coral reef incident she had the last time she attempted surfing. Her legs also hosted a variety of marks, mostly around her knees. Keke was a tomboy, though she loved to dance too.…

The performance of The Sleeping Beauty took place at the Brown Theater in the Wortham Center. The performance is choreographed by Stanton Welch and the dance company is the Houston Ballet. Overall I am truly amazed of the Wortham Theatre because it is elegant and well-organized. Attending a ballet show for the first time excited me very much and seeing the quantity of ballet accessories that were being sold I came to the conclusion that the performance of The Sleeping Beauty was huge. Therefore,…

West Side Dance Studio is a dance studio in South Florida. The most important concept I learned out of the four years I danced there is that dancers do not use their words to express emotion, they use their body. The teachers there always express how important it is to tell a story with our bodies. That is why we dance, to express emotion and tell a story to our audience when performing. Dancers at West Side Dance Studio use body language to accomplish their goal of expressing emotion and…

Swamp Dance Fest! UF SoTD; McGuire Pavilion G-6 studio; July 30th 7:30pm. Repertory Concert After Image was supposed to bring out imagery of the files arctic expedition made by S.A. Andrée in1897. The only part of the dance that I was able to recognize was the paper being torn and placed over the dancers, like ice breaking up. I couldn’t really pick out any of the other movements as specifically representing the expedition. At first the movement in After Image was confusing and I wasn’t quite…