Duncan Sheik

In Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire” the character Blanche DuBois’s mental state deteriorates as the story progresses. During the play, several events in Blanche’s past are revealed. These events allow one to understand why Blanche acts the way she does, and why certain events affect her the way that they do. We should feel sorry for her because after analyzing her past and physiological problems she is the victim. Blanche grew up in a middle-class family but she lives her…

commotion. Still naked from their first night of union, Joth peaked outside the leather tent flap. “What did we miss?” he remarked. Rinka pulled him back inside. “Can’t the war wait a few more minutes?” she teased. “I like to have you inside me once again.” Joth returned a loving smile and then threw his tunic over his head. “Oh, how I’d like that but I think something really important is happening.” She shook her head and returned the smile. “Oh, go ahead,” she sighed.…

Dance has long been a medium that represents American culture that is constantly evolving and Martha Graham and Frank Gatson Jr. are two of many choreographers that helped developing modern dancing in America. After watching a lot of videos on how different type of dances emerged in America, I found Martha Graham’s work appealed to me the most because of her expressiveness and intensity in movements. Brought up by a father who was a psychiatrist, her first lesson of dancing was, “Movement never…

Shakespeare: Macbeth”, Macbeth was more eviler because in Act 2 he helped kill the former King Duncan and his guards. He sent murderers to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance in Act 3. Macbeth was so evil that he sent the same murderers to go kill Macduff’s family in Act 4. First, in the book “No Fear Shakespeare: Macbeth”, Macbeth is way more eviler than Lady Macbeth because it was his idea to kill the former King Duncan. Macbeth was so desperate to become the…

The Accelerate dance concert is a modern dance concert presented by the Theater and Dance administrations at the University of Kentucky. The concert consisted of three performances in the month of January. On Saturday January 27th I attended the 7:30 pm Accelerate dance concert in the Guignol Theater in the Fine Arts building on campus. While I have attended dance concerts in my past, both live and through videos, this was the first time I have seen modern dance in person. Currently I am…

British Dance: Influential Black Dancers Made an Impact on Britain “Like Britain itself, British dance has been informed by different waves of immigration”, says dance history professor Ramsay Burt (Roy). Ballet “took root” through a determined Polish woman, Marie Rambert, and Irishwoman, Ninette de Valois (Roy). Modern dance was arranged by exiles form Germany in the 1930s and visitors from America in the 1950s and 1960s (Roy). The stories and history of black British dancers however, tends to…

Martha Graham preceded to transform dance with her style, originality and new ideas. Martha was a modern dancer and choreographer. Who way of dance has been influence and compared with Picasso. Martha first started teaching dance in 1926 her first group of people had been sucked into her creative style and technique. After the first lesson she started Martha Graham Studio so that all dancers influenced by her can be under her watchful eye. The National Association of Schools of dance adopted…

Rather than using music Graham used historical events, such as mythology, social issues, poems, and paintings for inspiration. Duncan had used music to inspire her works whereas Graham used music to make her works dramatic. Her life experience coloured her choreographic perspective and she searched for new truths in dance, rejecting the prettiness of ballet in order to discover…

In the play Macbeth William Shakespeare showed how guilt affects some of the characters in the play and used several motifs to show the guilt. Some of the characters affected by guilt in the play through the motifs of blood, sleepwalking, and ghosts to show guilt were Macbeth and Lady Macbeth The first person who felt the effect of guilt was Macbeth. After committing the murders Macbeth begins getting haunted by the ghosts of the people he killed. On page 101 the text states “‘Thou canst not…

aggressive in her state of being. In Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, color imagery is used to highlight the transformation in Lady Macbeth’s character and gender role. Towards the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth orders Macbeth around to kill Duncan and prevent others from seeings the horrid crime that they committed. By the end of the play, Lady Macbeth tries to become pure and change her colors by washing away her dirty deeds. Her gender role transforms from being very masculine to not as…