Morris dance

entrance, so we were all getting ready to dance. This was the first dance of the night, and there was so much built up anticipation. This was the moment we were all waiting for, the moment we had practiced so tirelessly for months. Finally, the doors opened, and each pair entered the ballroom one by one, until it was my turn for my escort, Marc, and I entered and then went into our waltz position. The music commenced and the waltz began. I do not know how the dance looked, but I…

The first time the class met, we were in the smallest dance room. A long wooden bar ran across the back wall, parallel to a mirror covered wall. On the shelves around the room were what seemed like hundreds of trophies that the local high school dance team had won over the years. The first thing I remembered thinking was “Wow, I’m going to have trophies just like this one day!” and little did I know that my reward from baton twirling would be much greater than any trophy or medal. My first time…

To achieve your goals you have to be motivated and spotting just doesn’t do that. Spotting doesn’t help us be focused on the task at hand, and keep us from becoming distracted; it just helps our body turn around. Dance can help us achieve our goals though because we often set goals ourselves, trying to work on a particular move so we can perfect it. I think that it would be more realistic be a more realistic point to say that we are always working to get better and…

I still remember the first day I met Bobby, it was the first day of senior year. Every year on the first day we would have an assembly. Every year it was the same thing, new policy, dress code...blah blah. I was walking with Jax, my boyfriend of since forever it felt like. Jax was messing around with the football team yelling “ throw it over here” echoing throughout the hallway. As the ball flew through the air I looked up just in time to see her walk by. The smell of sweet strawberries…

While walking into the Gershwin Theater in New York City, people flow past quickly going to their seats to wait for the play to begin. As the lights dim in the large room, many people erupt into loud cheers and claps of excitement. The play begins with a soft string instrument, and is joined by the melodious sound of drums, flutes, and trumpets. The actors appear on stage swiftly as the life of the Wicked Witch of the West is portrayed on the slanted platform in front. Theater has allowed people…

The conga is a novelty dance that is danced individual with a partner, or in a line also known as a “conga line”. The basic steps in a conga line include three shuffle steps on the beat followed by a kick on the fourth beat. When the conga is done as a couple dance, the dancers face each other and move opposite direction of one measure, then they switch directions. When you are at a party, many times people will start a conga line. This is done by each person behind the next places their hands…

elastic I was, with my skinny little body, almost like a compass when I opened it. In the same way that I could not eat everything I wanted, since I had to follow diets so as not to get fat. If it were not for the great passion and love, I felt for the dance I would not have been able to go through the sacrifices that happened in my…

What do you think of when you hear the word ballerina? I know that I think of young women and girls that dance on their tippy toes. There special shoes that allow them to be able to do this are called a pointe shoe, and can be made for just one specific dancer. It’s not all graceful and effortless movements. If you are not trained for these shoes you can really get hurt. Today I will tell you the five major parts of them that all work together to make sure that the dancer does not get hurt. At…

reading through the PowerPoint presentations I found that they really helped me have a better understanding of the ballet dance and how it originated. As we learned the very early beginnings of ballet originated in Rome. However, the very first ballet that we know of today happened during the crusades in 1581 and it was called Ballet Comique De La Reine. The main purpose of the dance was to flatter the French and nearby people and to remind people that the medics of Florence, Italy still…

answer is a lot harder than one would think. According to sport nation, “Cheerleading is actually one of the most demanding sports out there”(Connolly). Cheerleaders have to hire a choreographer to make a great and fun routine. A normal routine has a dance at the end of a routine, a cheer in the middle routine, and stunts every 7 seconds. It takes about 24-48 hours to make a routine. Everyday cheerleaders practice their routine over and over again until it’s perfect.They bring…