Modern dance

Dance is an aspect that accommodates with emotions and displays creativity. This form of art is a major priority in my life. I have been a student at the Dance Depot since the age of five. Over the years, my skills progressed and this activity grew serious and challenging. As a young, inexperienced child, the exhibition symbolized a minor sport in my daily life. However, this current point of view changed dramatically on a summer afternoon in 2009. My mother received an interesting email from…

This photo is of a Washington State Cheerleader performing a full basket. To perform this stunt, 3 bases interlock their arms while the top girl stands crouched down on their hands. The bases dip down and then throw the top girl as high as they can into the air in a straight line as the top girl stands up. She performs a stunt when she feels weightless at the top of the throw. In this photo, you can clearly see that she is twisting her body on two different axes, but I will only be talking about…

sound silly, I just know it. But I think this is important. My greatest accomplishment in the past two years is learning to dance. No, it’s not graduating high school, getting good test scores, or being in the top of my class. I think it’s much more important than that. I’m not talking about learning amazing choreography, tricks, or moves – I just mean that I have learned to dance - shamelessly, without fear of judgment, and without a care in the world. In elementary school, I was bullied. I was…

After reading Art and the Community: Breaking the Aesthetic of Disempowerment I began thinking about where I stood on dance in the community, dance involving non typical dancers and dance as a therapeutic activity. As I was brain storming I realized I had much stronger opinions on these issues, than I realized. As a dancer, when asked what dance is to me I commonly refer to dance being an art form that allows me to express myself in a raw form. In the article Art and the Community: Breaking…

Misty Copeland, a soloist with the professional American Ballet Theatre company, once said that ballet is “one of few arts that has maintained its history…and stayed true to what it is”. Ballet is a form of dance and art that dates back to the 15th century. Though it has been modified and tweaked throughout the years, the overall technique has stayed. Ballet has had many influences since it first began. Each time period brought new and improved dancers with brighter and bolder influences to the…

In Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, the reader is a shown a horrible experience, the beating of a child by his father told in a way of the beautiful dance—the waltz. Our poet tries to beautify it by making it a waltz. It has the same timing as a waltz, 3 4 time. Roethke uses language, imagery, and tone to set the theme of abuse. The tone of the poem sets the whole poem up. It creates the course of the poem. The first stanza of this poem set the whole mood of the poem. “The whiskey on…

What do you think of when people ask what is a sport? Most will think of football, basketball, or even golf, but they miss marching band. According to the Oxford Dictionary, “a sport is an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." Many people will argue that it is not a sport and say it is an art form, but when the word sport is broken it down by its definition it is seen otherwise. Think about this, is it…

waltzing around the kitchen with his son, to his wife’s displeasure. The speaker uses a sound device such as onomatopoeia, to describe the father’s uncoordinated dance. In the text it stated, “We romped until the pans; Slid from the kitchen shelves.” Which was used to put emphasis on how loud or how bad of a ruckus it was. Waltzing is a type of dance in which the dancers revolve in perpetual circles. But waltz is a symbol for the relationship between the father and son. “Such waltzing…

The anticipation as the cheerleaders wait for the announcer to call them to approach the mat. The cheerleaders are very tense as the butterflies burst in their stomachs. The berserk cheer moms hoot and holler for their daughters as they proceed to the floor. Many girls are pondering the question of how in the world they made it. As I pursue my goal of making it to states, I am blessed with my prime team; however I am obligated to conquer the adversities to achieve this mission for my team and I.…

It all started when I was nearly eight years old, the year of 2009. I had been doing gymnastics since I was two years old and I loved it. The practices, coaches, teammates, getting ready for the big weekend, and mostly leaving all the hard work on the floor. While at practice, I found myself watching the cheerleaders instead of focusing on my gymnastics. I loved watching the girls be thrown into the air and flip at the same time and I knew I wanted to try it and be the best one out there. My gym…