Houston Ballet

Dancing in the Spotlight Standing in the spotlight is a very frightening, gut-wrenching accomplishment. Dancing alone in the spotlight can be even more so. I experienced dancing in the spotlight two years ago, when I played the part of Clara in the Nutcracker. Of course, it all started with dance, or rather, without dance. My mom was driving me to the studio, but I was not feeling well, so she strode inside to inform my teacher I was unable to dance that day. When she walked back out, Mother…

awakenings, from mission trips to news articles. For me, these influences come in the form of dance, God, and opportunity. Unexpectedly, dance has made a major impact on who I am. Though I started at age three, I've been dancing at a Vaganova-style ballet academy for seven years. Apart from the physical technique, dance has developed my identity and given me some useful skills. It has given me independence and self discipline. Dance teachers can give corrections to one student and the entire…

Who is Martha Graham and why was she significant to modern dance? Modern dance was developed in the early twentieth century in the state of America. It was established by both Ruth St Denis and Isadora Duncan. In the early 1900 many changes occurred in relation to theoretical dance. Martha Graham was one of the early pioneers who made a significant change to the way people dance by creating a new style/language of dance. Martha graham was born in 1984 on the 11th of May in Pittsburgh. Graham has…

choreographers and producers. He created some of the most recognized ballets seen today. George Balanchine became an inspiration to the modern ballet culture by being an influential dancer, a world renowned choreographer, and a contributor to the ballet world. George Balanchine will always be remembered as a stunning dancer and teacher. According to the Biography.com Editors, at the age of 10, Balanchine decided to dance at the Mariinsky Theatre’s ballet school in St. Petersburg, Russia; he was…

dancing, so he left home at a very young age, he danced ballet in Europe and across the USA as a young man after training for decades under the world’s greatest Russian classicists. According to PAUL A. BARRA Karl Singletary was the first African American to receive a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan. That was in 1967. By 1971, Singletary had given up the stage for teaching. Also He is founded of Buffalo Inner City Ballet Company in western New York State. It was…

Alonzo King's ballet,”Writing Ground”is a very free and and interpretive dance. The background is very plain and the dancing it very is precise. I liked the piece because it can be expressed differently and it isn’t a dance that's very predictable or boring.The piece varied between techniques. There was ballet,jazz,modern and even some hip hop. The music was another language and it really contrasted with the movement, bt it still looked good. The performance was intricate, but there weren’t…

For this assignment i have chosen two dance production, coppelia and Poetry in Dance. Coppelia is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffman. It is a three-act ballet that tells the light-hearted story of the mysterious Dr Coppélius who owns a beautiful life-sized mechanical doll. The show had original choreography by Arthur St. Léon, Coppélia is staged with additional choreography by Janek Schergen. The second performance that i had watched was a Chinese dance from Poi Ching School, Hwa Chong…

ballerina who likes to escape into fantasy lands such as the land of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, or Cinderella. However, the only way I can do this is through my dancing. This is a good thing because years ago I had devoted my mind, body, and soul to ballet. It has become my life. In many ways it has become my career, my future. Often now I wonder if this dancing is what led to my parents’ divorce. That split hurt a lot. Not only had my mom and my dad, who had been married for fifteen years, had…

Ballet Did you know that in 1672 all parts in ballet were performed by male dancers in wigs and masks to make them look like female so they could play both roles? Very few women were allowed to perform because the males thought they weren’t good enough now, most men have lost interest in ballet and it’s mostly girls performing. Point shoes are the main part of the ballerinas outfit. Female ballerinas wear knee length tutus to show of points and curves. They also wear leotards, and usually…

“As a kid, I always wanted to be a ballet dancer. I figured out pretty quickly that there's only one acceptable body type for male ballet dancers and I don't have it.” And well, that is true Enjolras thinks. Male ballet dancers are expected to be tall, strong and impossibly thin. He himself had only barely made the cut, and Enjolras had at least 2 inches on Grantaire. Not to mention Grantaire didn’t quite fit the lean and thin expectation for male dancers. Looking over at the man in question…