Social dance

Every dancer dreams of starting the one and only class that everybody knows is so famous. What is this beautiful class? It is Pointe, the gorgeous, little, squared-toed, baby-pink slippers that so many dancers strive to wear. Who wouldn’t want to dance on a three-inch surface supporting three times her own body weight? Beauty is pain and the beauty of your feet after you’re done and the pain-staking hours it takes to break in the shoes is so worth it. The most crucial step in taking this class…

following reasons: we got to dress up, the homecoming dance, and the parade. Getting to dress up turned us into kids again. Dressing up for homecoming week was fun; although it wasn't for everyone. Most of the people here dressed up,even the teachers, according to each day of the week. Each day was different all through the school week. Everyone had a blast dressing up. The homecoming dance was full of a lot of different emotions. The dance was full of laughter and romance all around.…

behave. culture is an important shaper of our personality. A very influential part of a southern American culture is dance. Dance has been called the universal language; you live in a world that uses the arts such as dance as a form of communication and personal expression and a voice. Specific countries have dances that identify with a region and its culture immediately, an immediate dance that can connect…

fourteen on November 15th. She attends school at St. Anthony’s of Padua. Anna is very friendly person that has a lot of friends such as Emma, Isabelle, and Kara. If she is not with her friends she is probably dancing at her dance company, California Arts Academy. She loves to dance on her free time. If you don’t see her dancing she is probably watching TV. Anna is not a school person. She said she kind of likes it. She doesn’t like doing test or homework. Like I said she goes to St. Anthony’s.…

began to take Eritrean cultural dance lessons in order to be part of the Eritrean festival dance performance. I have always wanted to excell in everything that I do, especially if it meant a lot to me. I did not expect that these dance lessons would provide me with the lesson of handling failure and criticism. The Eritrean dance performance gave me the opportunity to choreograph my own dance for the first time. Since I was experienced and practiced for this dance I thought I would have no…

In this article, “Changing Values in Cuban Rumba, A Lower Class Black Dance Appropriated by the Cuban Revolution,” by Yvonne Payne Daniel, quotes “To say, ‘We're all the same’ or ‘There is no racism in Cuba,’ is to mask difference and potentially to permit prejudice and discrimination to fester. Rumba illuminates the problems of the state in its attempt to link respect and prestige among all Cubans. Rumba performance, visually affirms the persistent reality of its origins in the nineteenth…

buffer zone is about arm’s length. Basically, it is long enough so if I stretch in any direction I should not be able to touch anyone. This measurement of space developed from my younger years in dance school. I was in dance school from the time I was five years old until I was eleven years old. In dance school they always had us stretch out our arms for distance and spacing. This was put in place to prevent anyone from getting hurt while we were moving around. The combination of this and my…

The dance concert I chose to see for my critique was The Nutcracker. Ballet Arizona was the company that put on this show. I saw this production on Tuesday, December 10, 2015 at Symphony Hall in Phoenix, Arizona. Since The Nutcracker is a holiday classic, I have always wanted to see how a young girl's toy nutcracker came to life. I have read before about it but have never seen it for myself. The first piece was the “Party Scene”. It had a very beautiful set including a huge elegant fireplace on…

role in this musical, I did have a tap dance solo. However, I have never tap danced before, so I arranged with the director to have extra practices during the week just so I can learn how to tap dance. Not only did I schedule these extra rehearsals with the director, I helped out with a lot of the logistics behind the musical, such as painting sets, making announcements designing programs, and selling tickets. In fact, my director encouraged me to take tap dance lessons outside of school. The…

chorus, and I absolutely loved it. That was my favorite class of all times, and I was always excited to go. In chorus, we were split up into two groups;Altos and Sopranos. I was in the Alto group, and we harmonized with the Sopranos. We came up with dance moves for…