Modern dance

from the Tab, “There is nothing like being on a dance team. It is one of those things – you can only fully comprehend it if you’re a part of one.” (Pandey,Secrets Everyone In A Dance Team Knows,The Tab) there are so many things that many people outside of the team do not know. Some people think it is easy and that we barely do anything, others are more knowledgeable, but will never truly understand. If you are contemplating trying out for the dance team you have a few things to learn or if you…

Events/Factors that Influenced Suzy 1. Suzy was born into an extremely wealthy family. This gave her the opportunity to attend an all female prep boarding school and practice ballet. 2. Suzy was raised very alone without her parent’s presence at the London Day School. When she was 9 years old she was sent to the prep boarding school and despised it. She seemed to act very mature for her age. 3. Suzy had never met colored people before at the age of seven and said she never wanted to meet one.…

Art never occurs in a vacuum; there are always contextual clues as to why artists create, which derive from social and political history. Artists in completely different eras can experience similar events that potentially create analogous products. An artist connection that I find interesting is Marcel Duchamp’s influence on the choreographer, Merce Cunningham. Duchamp, as a Dada master of the early 19th century inspired Cunningham’s work, Walkaround Time. The set design and the overall movement…

On March 9, I went visited the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts to see The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk. The play was directed by Emma rice and written by Daniel Jamieson. The producing body included assistant director Keziah Serreau, choreography by Emma rice & Etta Murfitt, designed by Sophia Clist, lighting design by Malcolm Rippeth, sound design by Simon Baker, and composed/music directed by Ian Ross. I have never been to a play before this one. Flyers Lovers of Vitebsk was…

Identities In the modern society each of us performs multiple roles. Each role involves particular responsibilities or behavior that partially depends on expectations of others. Different people perform their roles in different way and with a different approach. Some believe that it is important to be yourself and not to be an artificial single role performing robot, even on the workplace. Others believe that in order to perform their roles properly, they need to focus themselves primarily on…

Starting fall semester of my junior year in Modern III, I knew that I would be challenged in several ways including: pushing my limits further, taking huge risks for myself, and learning choreography at a faster pace. So far in modern this semester, I feel that I have succeeded in these certain areas. I have experienced news things with my body by finding new places that my body could reach as well as surprising myself with things my body hasn’t ever experienced before. At the end of August, I…

execute a move with excellence, people don’t judge. In Thailand, if you didn’t do well, they will give you a penetrating look. This discouragement from Thai Bboy is a good example of resistance and discrimination. If you are not good enough, don’t dance. Just like the poor in Sedaka, where the rich neglect them because they are not as well-off or talented as the wealthy. When I started out in Thailand, every set back from peers makes me want to fight myself to become better than them. Just like…

begs Torvald to help her practice the tarantella dance for a party. As Dr. Rank and later Torvald play the piano, Nora dances wildly and with great enthusiasm. However, Torvald…

destroying the world, and this in turn represents their need of one another. In Shiva’s actions of stopping Kali’s dance he is also not able to perform his own role of silent reality, but Kali’s dance at this point was too destructive to let run it’s course. One without the other would lead to an imbalance of the universe, therefore Shiva had to put a stop to Kali, because both must perform their dance in relation to reality in order to keep the universe in…

continued to dance. In the Russian documentary I saw five young girls pushing their bodies to the breaking point to become the best, no matter what it took to get there. Dancer place themselves in difficult situations and push their bodies so far to accept pain. They are truly athletes of the greatest degree. Anna Aalten wrote in her journal, In the Presence of the Body: Theorizing Training, Injuries and Pain in Ballet, that humans were not made to stand on their toes, let alone dance. But…