Tap dance

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…

and gets turn into a dance with a style of swag. I really like the style of music that the hip hop dancers use. Those style of musics are my favorite. I wanted to learn the moves and to be really good at it. I took classes when I was about 7 years old and I loved it. Wanted to take more classes, but the hip hop classes were really expensive. I took hip hop for only a year and I really enjoyed it. I compete at competitions and I perform jazz and tap dances, but no hip hop dances. I was…

Jazz Dance: Know All About That You Can Jazz Dance is an American Art form with roots in West African traditional dance. It is an individual style dance performed with a rhythmic focus, in dialogues with gravity. The dance started with tap, then traveled the social circle with dances like the Charleston, big apple, and the jitterbug and then become a formalized technique through the innovators such as Jack Cole. With the demand of its circulation, studios started giving more of the classes…

he was a citizen of America, he was Irish and ¼ German. Gene began to dance when he was 15. He was known as an all rounder because he was an American actor, singer, film director, producer, dancer and above all a choreographer. He was well known for his good looks and energetic style of dance. Kelly 's family started a dance studio in Pittsburgh. In 1932 the studio was renamed as Gene Kelly studio of Dance After starting the dance company, he decided to pursue his carer as a choreographer. It…

Busby Berkley was a choreographer and a director starting in the 1920’s. As well with both choreographing and directing, he was considered the showman of his era. Busby did not have training in dance as everyone else so he had taught himself. During the Great Depression, he was able to lift up the hearts of Americans, mainly because he had used females in his works and centered on their beauty and was able to use them as his muse Busby Berkley was born as Berkley William Enos in Los Angeles in…

little sister could. Saturday mornings I’d watch her slip on her tap shoes and flaunt her new dance moves she learned at dance class. I quickly acquired a pair for myself to copy her. We clanked, shuffled, and stomped, enjoying the various sounds our feet produced. Those Saturdays disappeared to mere memories once my sister was diagnosed with leukemia. She was isolated in a hospital bed for almost three years. Knowing that dance was her dream, I continued taking classes, learning as much as I…

rib cage since she was born, but this doesn’t affect her as she is one of the most flexible people. Sophia started dancing at two years old, and started competing at the age of 3. She was first inspired to dance by her older cousin. Now she practices 35-40 hours a week on jazz, contemporary, tap, and ballet. That is more hours than an average person works per week. A time period of 2 days is all it would…

Swing Dance begin in 1920s and 30s in America. In 1930s the words Lindy Hop, Jitterbug, and Swing were all interchanged terms. How the dance was discovered you may ask in the 1920s the black community were dancing to contemporary Jazz music and the discovered the Charleston and the Lindy Hop which was originated in Harlem. Something that I found really interesting is in 1936 Philip Nutl, was president of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing said that swing would not last. Here it is 2016…

group of individuals who are exactly the same. Between February 25 and 26, 2016, the Connecticut College Dance Club hosted a performance entitled “Pivot,” in Myers dance studio which included thirteen pieces of original choreography by Connecticut College students. Kelley Fairman’s work, Atlas consisted of six dancers and was performed as the culminating work of the concert. The modern-inspired dance showcased each dancer’s strength while creating a narrative. Through the choreographed movement,…

I could finally return to dance for my sophomore year at Booker T. Washington. The time I spent unable to dance led me to explore other pathways associated with the arts. Because I was not able to participate in my technique classes I was told to take extensive notes over corrections and the class as a whole; I began to draw connections from the first combination to the last. This was a cognitive approach to dance that I had never taken before, when I returned to dance I was able to take class…