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    Classifaction Essay

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    dance; it gives the dancer peace of mind and relaxation. Dancing is a stress reliever for most dancers. Dancing has a variety amount of categories such as modern‚ jazz‚ and ballet. Modern can be a very awkward type of dance it breaks all the rules of classical ballet. This dance type was created by dancers that didn’t like ballet and saw it as a meaningless dance. The first person that started modern dancing was Isadora Duncan her performances in the United States were unsuccessful so then she decided

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    Jazz impacts on society

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    such as ballet‚ or tap. It plays more entertaining music to keep the audience entertained and more tuned in‚ in my opinion. In jazz you have more freedom then you do in most other forms of dances. Jazz is also more of a comfortable dance. In most other dances there is a definite set of body positions. Also in Jazz you can incorporate many different dances into it and is done to faster more music that people listen to today. Jazz dancing also has more sudden moves. Also‚ for example ballet‚ you have

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    West ideology. "Mao ’s Last Dancer" tells the tale of Li Cunxin‚ a Chinese dancer in the Houston Ballet‚ and his adventures. The book also includes various members of Li ’s family‚ his dance teachers at his ballet academy and the friends he makes as he travels to the U.S.A.   At the age of 11‚ Li was taken from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao ’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979‚ during a cultural exchange trip to Texas‚ he fell in love with an American woman. Two

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    Stephen Daldry. In the film by “Billy Elliot” directed by “Stephen Daldry” the setting of North East England in 1984 is very important. In 1984 the miners were on strike‚ poverty was common amongst the working class miners and Billy wanted to do ballet instead of boxing. The verbal and visual features used in the film helped me understand the importance of the setting. In this paragraph I am going to describe an important setting of North East England County Durham from the film I have studied

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    (2014‚ May). Ballet Preljocaj ’s SNOW WHITE Makes Chicago Debut at Harris Theater This Weekend. Web. 21. Apr. 2014. http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwdance/article/Ballet-Preljocajs-SNOW-WHITE-to-Make-Chicago-Debut-at-Harris-Theater-52-4-20140501#.U2eyidxP4n4 Kaufman‚ Sarah. (2012‚ March). Ballet Preljocaj. Web. 18 Apr. 2014. http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/performing-arts/ballet-preljocaj%2C1223295.html Kourlas‚ Gia. (2014‚ April 24). Trying

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    money‚ how much you might ask? Enough to buy 21‚966 chocolate bars bars! Time Constraints A Prima Ballerina could train for 6 days a week. So‚ they don’t have a ton of time to relax. On a day that has a performance‚ it will usually start with a ballet class‚ and stretching before it. Then‚ they’ll have rehearsals and some down time throughout the day.

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    Dance Paper

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    feel through the movement of your body through music. Through the different styles of dancing‚ it can be slow paced‚ fast paced‚ mellow‚ seductive‚ fun and enjoyable at the same time. The different styles discussed in this paper will show that jazz‚ ballet‚ folk‚ ritual and modern dance are different but similar. Whatever style of dance you choose they all have repetition‚ form and rhythm and something about the dance that makes people enjoy it and move to it. Jazz The Charleston is a form of Jazz

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    composing in ballet‚ film and musicals‚ and also his lectures. The first song on the CD is called “Fanfare for the common man”. This piece was written in 1942 by Aaron Copland for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. During World War II many composers were asked to create fanfare music to celebrate for the war effort.

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    Dalia Selman The Modern World 01/28/2014 Response paper 2 Louis XIV I read many fascinating things in chapter 21. During the times between 1550 and 1750‚ absolutism spread across Europe and Asia. Even in the Muslim world‚ people were claiming their power was from god directly. France was ruled by the great King Louis XIV‚ who referred to himself as "le roi soleil" meaning the sun king. In this paper I will be focusing on Louis XIV and his contributions to the artistic world then and now

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    them [Tchaikovsky’s melodies] in this - just in this one ballet [The Nutcracker]- are immortal” (Hoffman). Tchaikovsky first began work on the music to the now internationally renowned ballet in February 1891 (Schwarm). While in Paris that year‚ he heard an instrument called the celesta‚ whose name is derived from the word celestial‚ being played‚ and thought its unique‚ twinkly sound would be perfect for the music of the fairy-tale ballet he was working on. This instrument is used as the melody

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