Partner dance

The Accelerate dance concert is a modern dance concert presented by the Theater and Dance administrations at the University of Kentucky. The concert consisted of three performances in the month of January. On Saturday January 27th I attended the 7:30 pm Accelerate dance concert in the Guignol Theater in the Fine Arts building on campus. While I have attended dance concerts in my past, both live and through videos, this was the first time I have seen modern dance in person. Currently I am…

Back pain is one of the most common injuries sustained by collegiate cheerleaders. Factors like position in a stunt, experience, and previous back injuries can cause an athlete to develop frequent or chronic back pain. In college cheerleading, there are two different positions in which a cheerleader can be placed. The first position is the flyer, her job is to stay tight by having a strong core and contracting every muscle in her body so that she can be thrown in to the air easily. It is…

Taylor Dance Company. The afternoon begins with ‘Mercuric Tidings’ which is a pure dance piece set to excerpts from Franz Schubert’s glorious Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. Unfortunately all the music is taped, due to the exorbitant cost of a live orchestra in New York City. I really love this work, especially the forms of the movements which keep growing and changing into gorgeous patterns. All the dancers are splendid, leaping and spinning at a breakneck pace. There is so much depth to this dance…

In the dance piece, Waiting For The 46th, choreographer Ryan Thomas and dancers Jillian Bruno, Chav’nair “Chav” Stocker, and Jazmin Zavaleta explore the struggles that we may come across in our life as obstacles. The piece was performed at the Kinetic Conversations faculty dance concert at 7:00 pm on November 30th, 2017 in the Landis Performing Arts Center on the campus of Riverside City College. The dance department created this showcase to demonstrate the many talents that choreographers have…

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…

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…