En pointe

The Prodigal son was choreographed by George Balanchine and performed in 1929, and was a work of his that is considered to be a strong story utilizing a lot of acrobatics. The movement displayed in the choreography displayed many types of movement, with modern being the basis. This particular work by Balanchine was considered to be in an “A-B-A” (Hunt 1982) form, due to the story line being an up, then a down, and then up again. If a spectator is familiar with the Biblical story of the…

Swan Lake has been performed throughout the world for more than a hundred years by major ballet companies and famous ballet dancers. It is a satisfying saga of love, longing, betrayal, death, and transcendence, brought to the stage with beautiful choreography and wonderful music. According to Juhasz, although companies have usually made changes to Petipa and Ivanov’s nineteenth-century choreography to suit the aesthetic of the time or a particular choreographer’s vision, all in all most versions…

My research is about searching for ways to lengthen a dancer’s performing career while using Laban Movement Analysis as the primary tool for research and solution. In defining “career longevity” for this specific research, I am focusing on preventing dance related injuries in order to lengthen the number of years of performing on stage. The average dancer stops performing in their 30’s. Increasing the longevity of movement ability positively correlates with increased performance opportunities…

I love to learn new things. From learning skills like violin and tennis to learning new concepts in school like the tectonic plates in Geography, I try my best to master everything I set out to learn. The mentality to constantly strive for the best results shaped the ways I learned various things. I am resilient when faced with obstacles during the process of learning different skills and topics, but I do sometimes take shortcuts to achieve perfection. These shortcuts often come in the form of…

For my dance report, I saw the Fall Dance at Adelphi University on December 4, 2016. It was called “Aszure Barton.” The two pieces that really stood out to me were “Tarantella” and “Consumed.” They both displayed great amounts of emotion through their choreography, backdrop, costumes, colors, music, and lighting. “Tarantella” and ‘Consumed” gave off opposite moods because of their specific components. “Tarantella” from August Bournonville’s Napoli was a very lively and cheerful dance. It can be…

gained within the time span of nine years—compared to other artists of that time, it took decades or even after their career for their work to be recognized. Vassal Nijinsky was one of the few men who was able to flawlessly execute the technique ‘en pointe’. The classical ballet technique required dancers to support their entire body weight at the tip of their toes with a fully extended vertical foot, making dancers appear weightless. Nijinsky was born into a home that was heavily influenced…

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to attend a ballet that reinforced their civilized status. The title, The Rite of Spring, gives implications of a performance brimming with spring-themes of new life and rebirth. With this in mind, they hoped to see beautiful tutu-clad ballerinas en pointe, and maybe a few men in tights to accompany them. Instead, Nijinsky’s ballet presented them with two primitive pagan tribes dressed in “holiday peasant wear—bloused tunics in heavy white or red felt” who believed that in order to protect the…

her first ballet class. When she unlocked the magical world of ballet, Misty was coping with the fact she was living in a shabby motel room with her five siblings and fighting for a place to sleep on the floor. A true phenomenon, she was dancing en pointe within three months of joining her first ballet dance class and performing professionally in just over a year: an accomplishment unheard of for any classical…

I could name a hundred and one mentors I’ve encountered and been influenced by, but many of them would only have a smidgen of effect on who I am now. Unsurprisingly, the most influential mentor I’ve encountered is you. There are certain things in our upbringing that influences us in a very complete way and I believe the type of parents we grow up with are one of the most impactful things. Different types of parents produce different types of people in the world and I fully believe had I had a…