Dance

Alonzo King's ballet,”Writing Ground”is a very free and and interpretive dance. The background is very plain and the dancing it very is precise. I liked the piece because it can be expressed differently and it isn’t a dance that's very predictable or boring.The piece varied between techniques. There was ballet,jazz,modern and even some hip hop. The music was another language and it really contrasted with the movement, bt it still looked good. The performance was intricate, but there weren’t…

I have always wanted to dance. For as long as I can remember I have looked on at a world I was not allowed to enter. Until I was thirteen financial hardship kept me from being able to take dance lessons.I was ecstatic when my mother finally let me go sign up for a class once a week. Soon I began wanting more and more, as a late starter I knew it was important to get the best training I could in order to catch up to my peers. I moved to local ballet school and began taking as many classes as…

few weeks later. This article made me think of a few movies/books that are the same plot just different settings. Like the vast untouched prairies of the Midwest are left in the hands of one man as he attempts to renew his life. Kevin Costner in Dances With Wolves is the character John Dunbar. His character finally realizes his place in life when he befriends and ultimately becomes one of the Lakota tribe. Very similar is the story in Avatar as Sam Worthington plays…

We are only friends. I press to that fact, but still my heart beats a hundred times faster as we dance together. We had spent quite some time choreographing this dance together and here we are: the steps running into a well-rehearsed picture, the artists are us. And though there is no audience, we dance as if there are a thousand watching our every movement. As we move in synchronous, we stay close, always touching. Even as I pose pirouette away from him, he reaches out as if trying to stop me.…

The 2016 Fall CSULB Dance in concert took place at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater on November 17, 2016, at eight o’clock. It was a collection of different dance pieces. The following dance pieces: Suite Female Outcome X-Z, #followme, and Love Letter effects consisted of telling a story. This effect was delivered by using space, compositional tools, movement, and production elements. The opening dance piece Suite Female Outcome X-Z utilized background, costumes, dancer’s movements, music,…

My cultural artifact is my pointe shoes that I use to dance ballet in. I started dancing when I was three years old at a small studio in my home town. My parents thought it would be a good way for me to do to make friends and get out my energy. The past fifteen years I have spent dancing have helped shaped my personality and who I am. Dance is more than just a combination of moves, it is a form of expression and art. The dance community as a whole is more than simply dancing, it includes all the…

remarkable differences, the similarities between the two styles of dance are self-evident when observing the costuming, technicality, and entertainment of each style. Dance has always played an important role in any culture, from the Mayans to today’s modern society; individuals are continuing to express themselves through movement. Different styles of dance have derived from other forms of traditional dances such as ballet. Every style of dance performed in a studio has some element of ballet…

figures that helped break traditional representations. She was known as the “Matriarch and Queen Mother of Black Dance.” She was the director and founder of Katherine Dunham Dance Company that opened in 1932. Dunham thought that black dance should be equal in status with white European dance. She changed American dance by going back to the roots of black dance and making choreography. Her dance techniques represent and reflect…

to the dance community. He also had a chance to work with well-known choreographers and producers. He created some of the most recognized ballets seen today. George Balanchine became an inspiration to the modern ballet culture by being an influential dancer, a world renowned choreographer, and a contributor to the ballet world. George Balanchine will always be remembered as a stunning dancer and teacher. According to the Biography.com Editors, at the age of 10, Balanchine decided to dance at the…

In the movie Dances With Wolves, the heroic cycle is present. Dunbar, the main character, goes through many stages as he changes throughout the movie. Some stages are absent but most are there. Dunbar’s call to adventure is him getting shot. He was reckless, suicide attempt. A glimpse at how he wants to be reborn. This pushes him on to further things later on in the movie. This part starts the whole journey. His supernatural aid/mentor was the general sees Dunbar as special. He patches him up…