Dirty Dancing

The camerawork and music show wild and garish actions from all characters, the music and demeanor of the charactors seem modern and more distorted than something that happened in the 1920s. This shows a darker side, making the party seem sinful and dirty in the hidden apartment that is shrouded with these exact attributes. These attributes may make a contemporary audience understand it better, however it makes the movie seem to depart from the book even further.. The inclusion of the jazz music…

grabbed at their local Pak N’ Save, a day old carton of milk that was marked down by fifty percent, a box of pop tarts, and her favorite love story. The young girl sat there every night on that small sofa eating her mac n’ cheese while she watched Dirty Dancing. The fifteen-year-old became entrapped in the hormonal crave for that kind of love, naive and titillating. Never did she have the chance to sit and eat with her mother. She simply grabbed a pop tart and walked out of the door. The…

The novel, “Aquaboogie” by Susan Straight, depicts the art of survival through various short stories by piecing together the adversity that each character faces. Substantially, the aquaboogie is a euphemism for dancing under water, meaning that an individual can still make something out of their strife just as how one may “dance” under water to keep from drowning. Each story within this novel introduces a unique character dealing with their own internal struggle and, in progression, they learn…

drug and alcohol-addled senses, melded into one, and Preston, not usually a romantic, was unable to keep a toothy grin off his face. Despite the plethora of jiggling student boobs and twerking asses in the room, there was none more gorgeous than his dancing companion. And everyone else was so unexpectedly friendly. Especially Harry Houlihan, who appeared the life of the party, and whose arm the blonde from the kitchen still clutched onto when Preston was maneuvered by Doug Rawlins to face them.…

Being on stage either gives the dancer a love or a hatred for the art. Their enjoyment is not as important as their ability to interpret the dance to the audience. All types of dancing require practice and technique, but probably none require as much as ballet. Ballet dancers seem to ignore the law of gravity as they float through the air in long, slow leaps. They keep perfect balance while they spin, and at times, their feet move…

When deciding upon which play to go and provide a critique for I looked at the synopsis on the Ames Community Theater’s website. The Dirty Rotten Scoundrel’s synopsis caught my attention for being a musical comedy which is why I picked it. Once I decided upon the play I decided to do a little research because I did not know very much about it. According to Musical Theatre International, the play was written by David Yazbek and Jeffery Lane. They created this play based off the movie that was…

slow and smooth at all as the second verse indicates, “We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf.” The father might have been so drunk that he became so aggressive and moved or “dance” faster than he should have if they were in a ball dancing waltz. In addition, it was mentioned that the pans slid. As we all know, pans make loud noises when dropped; thus, it could mean that the setting in the poem is chaotic. Probably, the father kept dragging or straining the boy that the pans or…

Atlanta, Georgia where the ‘Dirty South’ style of Hip Hop was born. The main characteristics of Dirty South style (a subgenre of hip hop) are lyrics that are straightforward with a heavy use of slang. The…

as seamstresses, prostitutes and clerks. Those jobs created extra income for these women. Interracial mixing started to pick up in public places between the working class black women and white man. Dancing was apart of this mixing. After work or time off ,the working class “A.A.W” would go out dancing. They would go to clubs…

looks like. He is precise and careful about every detail he puts in the scene that the book is opened up with. Capote states, “At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign Dance--but the dancing has ceased...Nearby is…