Dance

Question: Practicing with the dance pole can be quite frustrating at times, especially the pain felt on my inner thigh. I normally get this pain when I sit on the pole, or when completing the popular up-side down pole stunts while squeezing the pole using the inner thighs. It’s really painful, and at times my skin will end up with bruises. Is there a solution to this problem? Your help can definitely give me the comfort and convenience that I need. By the way, thanks for this website! Answer:…

being cut from public schools. Dance education provides children with this much-needed creative outlet. Mandating dance classes in public elementary schools as part of the mainstream curriculum allows children to foster creativity and expression, but also will increase overall cognitive development and productivity of students. The…

Postmodern dance is a 20th century dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition. The postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson Dance Theatre, the home of postmodern dance. (Wikipedia, 2017) Postmodern dance…

After reading Art and the Community: Breaking the Aesthetic of Disempowerment I began thinking about where I stood on dance in the community, dance involving non typical dancers and dance as a therapeutic activity. As I was brain storming I realized I had much stronger opinions on these issues, than I realized. As a dancer, when asked what dance is to me I commonly refer to dance being an art form that allows me to express myself in a raw form. In the article Art and the Community: Breaking…

This anthology of poems is about dance. The poems are divided into three categories. The first category is how an aspiring or retired dancer acts throughout their day. The second category is the fear of being on stage and performing. The third category is how everybody incorporates dance into their daily lives. Everyone dances in their own way. Here is a deeper look into the first category, daily lives of aspiring or retired dancers. When a dancer has a desire to become a professional, they…

it will be apparent that students lives are enhanced when having music and dance therapy. Though recent studies I have conducted I have found four out of five students and parent to say that both music and dance to be helpful. The fifth student and parent only chose music to be helpful. One participant in particular said, “I love dancing so much. It helps me learn at school. My teacher allows me to leave and take a dance break.” The parents of this particular child said their daughter is…

One would not expect a dance to disturb and challenge normative views when watching live or on the screen. The dance, Turbulence by Kenneth Hennessey, challenges those views with simple acts. The choreographer, Kenneth Hennessey, challenges these views by including the audience into the dance. Normally, a dance would not include the dance, but this dance includes the audience’s full attention throughout the entirety of the performance. Then the choreographer introduces the form of nakedness to…

I was the only girl on my dance team without experience from a dance studio and it definitely showed. My first camp of drill team was a disaster and a memory I wanted to forget. I couldn’t pick up choreography as easily as any of the other dancers on my team; it seemed as if every girl but me were…

behave. culture is an important shaper of our personality. A very influential part of a southern American culture is dance. Dance has been called the universal language; you live in a world that uses the arts such as dance as a form of communication and personal expression and a voice. Specific countries have dances that identify with a region and its culture immediately, an immediate dance that can connect…

The Tarantella is one of the oldest Italian folk dance that can be traced back to the middle Ages. Many labelled the tarantella the dance of healing/cure of the sick and courtship. It is also one of the most known, popularized, traditional dance in Italian society. The tarantella is characterized by upbeat music followed by a lead singer. The dance is also accompanied by light and quick steps mixed with teasing, flirtatious gestures between partners. Included in the music is a live 6/8 time…