Dances with Wolves

spend my winter break. I used to be best friends with this girl named Ellie, but I’m not her best friend anymore ever since she hung out with the popular girls. We had dance tryouts and I ended up making the team! There was only room for three girls in one of the dances. It was me, Ximena, and Summer. At our first practice our dance teacher, Mrs. Atanabi told us not to be late and she was late! She…

back layout twist. Nailed it. Quickly dart across the mat to get to left panel for opening stunts. Full up, tick-tock to stretch, two step turn, scorpion to arabesque, double down. The routine proceeds and we finally get to our favorite part, the dance. Triangle formation, three string ripple, and to end it toss hands to lib. The vivid white lights beaming down on your face as you smile and try to hold in the feeling of a perfect routine. Finally…

Chronological/Timeline: Desi Arnaz (Alfredo) I am sitting down with a drums by me and when somebody touch me, I play the drums then I say, “BABALOO”, then I stand up and start to tell my history. I am Desi Arnaz. On March 2nd, 1917, I was born, in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba. My parents were Dolores de Acha y Desiderio Alberto Arnaz ll. On June 1st, 1934, my family moved to Miami, Florida, after being forced out of our home due to the Cuban Revolution. I was seventeen years old when I became a…

marching band my sophomore year, my coaches, Chris and Donny asked for a few volunteers to travel to the three middle schools that filter into Grassfield (Hickory, GBMS and Hugo), and teach the rising ninth graders a few basics, the flag work and dance they needed for tryouts. I decided to help out due to my dedication for color…

Misty Copeland is a woman who defied all the odds and ended up becoming the first African-American principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre. In her autobiography Life in Motion, Copeland depicts her life as a young woman before her days of ballet until recently. This book particularly stands out as a commendable autobiography because Misty writes this book as a story a form of empowerment to “the little brown girls” who do not think that they are able to fight despite all of the odds.…

possible. But at the same time, still keep the succinct execution of moves and the magic of the original piece by Tchaikovsky. Mark Morris adds his style of challenging traditional gender roles in dance and his choreography of this piece, show case his creativity, imagination, and whimsical attitude toward dance.…

The crowd screams, the lights shine, the music starts, and I preform my heart out. This was my life three years ago. I was a competitive all-star cheerleader for a gym called Premier Cheer. I cheered competitively for about eleven years and even won a national championship in 2011. 2013 was my last year cheering because every cheerleader has an expiration date; I aged out of the sport and my body ached too much to keep going. Now, three years after my last competition, I entered my first…

position (Dee and Reason, 18). Thus, kinesthetic empathy refers to a participation in this from an audience, empathy being the process of projecting the self on to the object in question. The following essay will compare the dance film ‘Footloose’ (Ross, 1984), specifically the ‘Angry dance’ scene and the boxing film ‘Rocky I’ (Avildsen, 1976), specifically the ‘training montage’ to analyse how they produce this form of…

quickly learn diverse skills that will always change and advance. Every dance and cheer they perfect and every stunt they hit will just mean that there is a more difficult one waiting to be learned. No matter how tight their motions are or how loud their voices are in their dances and cheers, there is always room to be tighter and yell louder. In addition, cheerleaders practice 2-3 hours a day, learning stunts, tumbling, cheers, dances and how to engage with the crowd, audience and judges, to…

The stories in which were expressed so adamantly on the program and through the art of a dance entitled “Here we are.” This power behind the performers twists and turns and the pain so easily expressed through the creases and frowns on their faces, led me to believe that these dancers were human and had experienced events that have made them…