Houston Ballet

How I got into ballet Just a few moments before conquering the stage with intimate sincerity, I could feel my hands shaking mad, but I knew my soul was about to descent to heaven. Right after opening my eyes I felt every single note of the melody in every part of my body. I start flitting about the stage as would a sparrow. They wield the weapon of beauty with the grace, seemingly trained in the art of flawlessness. Whirling an inch off the floor as would a sycamore leaf just about to hit the…

Ballet Unlocks the Door to Learning by Enhancing and Improving the Students’ Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor Skills At the age of three children are beginning to explore the world around them and they begin formal schooling and most children are put into dance class. At this stage in their life they begin to figure out who they and continue to discover how they fit into the world around them. Movement in dance classes allows for a regulated way for children to become aware of their…

Jicamarca, Peru I was extremely excited to be a part of the team being shipped off. Before going to Peru we were put through a “special” type of training. During this training we were taught what we were going to be speaking about, a skit, and a ballet dance. So when we went to Peru we would be ready for anything, at least that’s what I thought. Traveling to Peru was intense, we left Fort Myers to go to Miami at 5am, got to Miami around 8am and waited for our international flight to Panama that…

be on stage, gaining recognition one day? Ballet dancers take joy in controlling their bodies, but they can only perform difficult steps after many years of training. Normally, dancers…

Portland, Indiana. She spent her early childhood in Indiana but later moved to California in 1963 and completed her degree in Art history in New York. Compared to other dancers, at a young age, she learnt quite a number of genres in the arts like ballet, tap, jazz, modern and music. When she was just a year and a half old she was already given piano lessons. Her first dance lesson was at the Vera Lynn School of Dance. During her dancing years, she had lessons from Martha Graham and Merce…

Indian girl who loved dancing to ballet. She had amazing talent, but sometimes she was faced with prejudice.During her career, she changed her name to Maria, but she left her last name “Tallchief” because she had much pride in it. Betty Marie “Maria” Tallchief was truly a woman of two worlds.Ballet usually took the shy feeling away from because she loved it so much. Betty Marie was an amazingly talented girl ,who loved ballet. In the passage, it states that “ballet brought her out of her…

Have you ever seen the Nutcracker ballet during Christmas time? Or have you danced for years and are finally deciding to dance on pointe? Ballet has been for hundreds of years and is still important to many people today. One of the main parts of ballet is pointe shoes. Pointe shoes are worn by all of the female dancers, except very young girls. The most important parts of the pointe shoe are the box; the end of the shoe that has pieces of cardboard and fabric glued densely together to support…

society to ditch the fine arts and go towards an academic profession. Many people believe that having a college degree or a PhD is practical and reliable: the demand for ^ jobs are high, while the demand for dancing jobs are exponentially decreasing. Ballet companies are shedding dancers; they aren’t hiring them. In our society, people who aspire to become lawyers, doctors, engineers, etc. are seen as intelligent, sophisticated, and, overall, better than everyone else who isn’t. They tend to…

The two clips I chose to compare and contrast were an NYC jazz and contemporary company’s performance of “Steam Heat” choreographed by Lisa Donmall-Reeve and Lindsey’s Stirling’s performance of a Les Miserables medley. Both clips exhibited a high degree of musicality and grabbed my attention almost immediately. They incorporated lighting and costuming with an incredible mastery to enrich the performance. I highly enjoyed the music that accompanied both dances and thought that the choreography…

will inform you about dance in 1970- 1980. After I tell you about dance in 1990- all the way up to 2017. In 1920 the ‘famous’ dance type was ballet. Ballet is an artistic dance form performed using precise and highly formalized set steps and gestures. It is characterized by light, graceful, fluid movements and the use of pointe shoes. Dancing ballet was…