Group dance

road trip from our small town to New Orleans, but we had to make a pit stop beforehand. We had to get breakfast, the most important meal of the day. As a ritual we always would stop by McDonalds for breakfast. Now we are finally on our way to the dance competition in New Orleans. We were approaching the causeway and all I could think about was the day ahead of me. The drive across the causeway was very protracted. I was super anxious to get to where I was going. From looking out the window it…

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 whole group, at the end of act one, sings [“This Joint is Jumpin”]. Opening of act 2, the cast is the middle of NYC celebrating its boroughs [“Spreadin’ Rhythm Around”]. Ken along with the girls go downtown singing [“Loungin’ at the Waldorf”] and Andre goes to…

my personality and lifestyle. In elementary school dancing was my passion, it is to this day, but in a different genre. I auditioned for the dance team at my soon to be high school, Presentation. Sadly, to my family’s and my surprise, I did not make it on. I was completely devastated and felt lost; I had no clue what I was going to do in high school. Dance was my life and it was what I wanted to continue through high school. Not one to dwell I picked myself up and focused on my first semester of…

“Freeing Forgiveness” was a dance that Joy Scott choreographed. During Joy Scott’s practice we struggled with quite a few things, such as, changing music, choreography, and what the dance was about. Our rehearsals were on Thursdays at 5:00pm and I was able to attend all practices that we had. During our first rehearsal, we started out using music that Joy found that was very simple and elegant. She had the idea of Blade Boulware playing the piano during the first minute of our dance and then…

If you asked me today if dance was ever an obstacle in my life I’d probably tell you no. In reality, dance was never really easy for me in the beginning. My journey as a dancer started all the way back to when I was three years old. Growing up, I was never really the girly type. I was more of a sports kind of girl thanks to my older brothers and dad. My mother on the other hand did not want me to go down that route, so she introduced me to the world of dance. It was a love hate relationship at…

critically interpret meaning through art, music, drama, and dance. All of these multiple formats of expression will be explained in detail in the following paragraphs. Music The performance I was responsible for editing music. The background music of our production is often used film music. For example, Up, Inside Out and Requiem For A Dream. Also, there is some sound effect used in my soundtrack, such as the sound of school Bell Ringing, small group whispering…

3. Musicians and dancers: Fine arts like music and dance have reached glorious heights during the period of the Vijayanagara rulers. The wide spectrum of music and dance in the Vijayanagara period is attested by testimony of sculpture. An attempt has been made to give an account of different aspects of the musicians and dancers in the Vijayanagara temples of Rayalaseema. The temple walls, pillars, adhisthana, gopura and other component parts display different models of musicians and dancers.…

What makes a sport a sport? A sport in most people's eyes, may only be football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. because these sports are widely promoted, and have a popular, and extremely competitive sports culture, that requires great physical effort. But what makes a sport a sport does not solely depend on if the sport is physical or not. A sport can also be a mind sport, which uses intellectual ability instead of physical ability. The Oxford Dictionary definition of a sport is: “An…

be just as painful. Females are more likely to engage in relational aggression rather than physical aggression. In this group of twenty something teenage girls, there was ample evidence of social psychology. There were tactics to achieve compliance, conformity, aggression, prejudices and stereotyping and many other facets of this course could be accurately applied to this group of…