Flamenco

Twyla Tharp was born in 1941 and grew up in Southern California. Growing up, her extracurricular activities consisted of baton, ballet, toe, flamenco, drums, elocution, painting, viola, violin, acrobatics, shorthand, German, and French. Tharp graduated from Banard College with a degree in art history. After graduating, Tharp performed her first professional debut with Paul Taylor Company in 1963, having the role of crawling across that stage. Two years later, she founded her first company in…

Miles Davis was an ordinary boy, born and raised in Illinois, United States who created one of the most complete jazz albums of all time called Kind of Blue. Davis’s parents were a big part of his early success, being that his father bought him his first trumpet at the age of 13 and his mother being a music teacher helped Davis express his love for music. By the age of 16 Davis was talented enough to play at local restaurants and bars around the city. Within one year a band called “Blue Devils”…

As a traditional dancer, we love to support our dance history and those traditional Kathak dance format represents the cultures strength, tradition and physical enthusiastic but today people are getting addict modern stylized dance. Those Kathak dancers are dying species and they are only 100-150 left today and they are part of our culture. They created our culture strong and valuable and we are losing those people day by day. It has a lot of reason behind that. They are not making…

In modern day, there are all types of music that have stemmed from the very beginning of time and music techniques. Jazz is a genre of music that has changed focus from the strict playing of the music and rhythms to a more free and fun style, giving musicians more freedom to play music how they like and how they choose to when it comes to entertaining audiences. There are two main musicians who are an example of jazz at its finest, and they are Miles Davis and Steve Reich. Miles Davis is an…

10 South American Cities You Have To Visit This Year Beautiful cultures, people, and nature all combine on the continent of South America, creating a colorful mix of places to see. From the arid Andes Mountains to the sizzling streets of Sao Paulo, South America offers something new and exciting around every turn. With so many different things to see, it can be hard to narrow down your options. As a starting point for adventures to South America, these 10 cities should be at the top of every…

The piece showcases dance music from Southern Spain and is overall fun and upbeat. Tempo di Bolero is a playful and uses percussive elements of the guitar especially the technique in Flamenco known as Golpe. It begins fast and remains fast until the very end. Adagio is a much slower movement with repetition but midway through begins to pick up pace and moves from more dissonant sounds to more consonant sounds. After the middle section…

To belong often involves both challenges and opportunities. Do you agree with this statement? In the quest to find one’s place in the world, an individual must overcome the challenges they face, and learn to embrace the opportunities. In Baz Luhrmann’s film Strictly Ballroom, many characters are significantly impacted by the barriers associated with the repression of individuality, before they are able to feel accepted. The speaker in John Foulcher’s poem, Raymond Wells and the Burning, also…

Spain and All of its Wonders SGT Pryor, Brian D ALC Class #003-18 Spain is a country on Europe’s Iberian Peninsula. It has 17 independently governed regions with vast differences in their geography and culture. The Kingdom of Spain, as it is officially known, is the second largest country in Eastern Europe. Spain covers roughly 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula with a vast area of almost 506 thousand kilometers. Spain is home to some of the World’s most famous Palaces and Museums. In…

The height of American imperialism showcased when United Sates waged the Spanish-American war. The war transpired between the countries of Spain and the United Sates and linked by historians to America’s imperialistic expansion concepts. The war was known as “A Splendid Little War”, due to the short duration it took for the United Sates to defeat the Spanish. The war ended with 1898 Treaty of Paris, which compelled the Spanish to abdicate claims of Cuba, and surrender the sovereignty of Puerto…

“The Husband’s Message” is a tale recounted by a wooden rune-staff that has runes inscribed on it. It tells the story of a man forced to leave his homeland and after time he is able to send an encoded message to his wife requesting her to join him. The poem alludes to the origin of the rune-staff in which carries the message to the wife but exemplifies the failure of communication as she does not understand the runes carved into the staff. The incomprehensible message thus presents the text as a…