Step dance

In the book holes, by Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnats and his family are curse with bad because his great-great-grandfather and is sent to camp green lake for punishment, for a crime that he did not do. At this camp Stanley is forced to dig holes in the hot sun. Moving along in the story Stanley gets to know the other boys at the camp but he becomes great friends with one in particular. They become very close and they both run away from the camp. After they run away the set out to what they call…

Holes, written by the excellent author, Louis Sachar, is an adventure and mystery book with a humorous touch. The story takes place mainly at the hot and humid Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland. It hasn’t rained there for over a hundred years. The only living plants there were two large trees and a hammock stretched out between the trees. Of…

Di Orio, Laura. “College Dance: Is It for Me?” Dance Informa Magazine, 7 Oct. 2015, www.danceinforma.com/2015/10/05/college-dance-is-it-for-me/. In her article, “College Dance: Is It for Me?” (2016), Laura Di Orio argues that going to college to study dance is important and useful, but that it is not the path for everyone. Di Orio supports her claim by including direct quotes from interviews she had conducted with four different professional dancers. The author’s purpose is to provide…

set sequence of steps. It is undeniable that the definition of dance is much more abundant than just one’s intrinsic body movement. People devote a lot of time to choreograph complex actions, of which require intensive training; to put in affecting emotions, of which require deep thinking; and to put inspiring moods, of which require precise depiction. In fact, dance is probably the most profound and complex art form yet exists in our society. Nevertheless, the intention of dance before any…

of transposing a traditional ballet into another style of dance while maintaining the plot of and similar choreography to the original ballet. This project would challenge everyone involved to interpret a well-known, classical ballet differently than one would usually interpret it, and it would also draw on my own creativity in the process of changing the ballet into another style of dance. I would choose to do this project because dance is an integral part of my life…

Embracing the idea of movement as more than just dance is an overarching theme in Deidre Sklar’s “Dancing with the Virgin” and Cindy Garcia’s “Salsa Crossings”. Both ethnographies analyze the implication of movement in the establishment of the community. In “Dancing with the Virgin”, members of the community are brought together through collective memories that are embodied in the dance as well as the rest of the fiesta. In the world of “Salsa Crossings”, the intent is to establish identity in…

The Tarantella is one of the oldest Italian folk dance that can be traced back to the middle Ages. Many labelled the tarantella the dance of healing/cure of the sick and courtship. It is also one of the most known, popularized, traditional dance in Italian society. The tarantella is characterized by upbeat music followed by a lead singer. The dance is also accompanied by light and quick steps mixed with teasing, flirtatious gestures between partners. Included in the music is a live 6/8 time…

went on to land a major record deal with P. Daddy’s Bad Boy entertainment and the first group to launch Bad Boy South. From the group success and their early video release from the song G-Style”Gangsta". Doors opened and gave opportunity for other dances in Memphis Tennessee such as Joking, Bucking, and etc. and have spread abroad. The group continues to be a major part on the Memphis music scene with Romeo's latest…

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…

The tango is a partners dance that originated in by the Rio de la Plata in the 1890’s. The Río de la Plata is the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The young form of the tango was known as tango criollo (the Creole tango). There are many forms of the tango today. The tango dance is a dance that has influences from European and African culture. The tango was often called “The Argentine Tango”. The tango style has changed over the years of it’s existence. When the tango originated, it…