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    Grease: Movie

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    The movie Grease was produced in the year 1978. The name of the movie‚ Grease‚ doesn’t come off as a singing movie with people dancing. The movie is based on two people who fell in love over summer break. They never would have imagined that they would be going to school together when school started back in the fall. Not knowing that they went to school together‚ Sandy a Australian transfer who later became a member of the Pink Lady‘s. “Danny(John Travolta) is the coolest greaser at Rydell High‚ and

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    families and friends meet each other on the big day to play their drums while singing and dancing. In addition‚ Achoura is an opportunity for children to play with toys that their parents bought for them‚ such as dolls‚ plastic guns‚ cars and masks. Furthermore‚ children spray each other with water on the day of Zem Zem. In the evening they light bonfires as well as fireworks and start singing and dancing around the fire late into the night. In brief‚ Achoura is a mixture of religious‚ cultural

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    is shown through significant experiences that force the individual to step out of their comfort zone and into the new world. Scene 10 in Billy Elliot is a scene that demonstrates the protagonist‚ Billy Elliot‚ confronting his father and family and dancing on the table. Daldry uses close up shots and editing between Billy‚ his family and Mrs Wilkinson‚ his teacher to show the tension between them and to emphasise the panic they are all in as Billy continues to confront his family’s comfort zone. The

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    community feel about boys doing ballet and has alot of courage to put their thoughts aside and just do the thing he loves. Upon finding out about Billy’s dancing. Jackie becomes enraged and expresses views of homophobic‚ Billy is determined to keep on dancing. It is not until Jackie actually sees Billy dance for the first time‚ that he realises that dancing might well and trully be his son’s future. He sees that Billy does have talent and lowers himself into going back to work just so he can afford to

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    “other”. She ended up feeling ashamed of herself. However with dancing and acting she discovered the awareness of oneness. In Embracing Otherness‚ Embracing Myself (Newton‚ 2011) she basically talks about the concept of self in contrast to oneness. The important thing is being connected to everything and being open to other people’s feelings which creates the state of self-awareness. It can be achieved through activities like dancing because then‚ self stops taking control. Her self‚ being doomed

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    Romanticism Paper HUM/266 The art of romanticism evolved during 1800’s. The art focuses on different human emotions‚ natural environment‚ a person’s experience‚ differences among people‚ traditional way of life and on the unique talent that every artist possess. The art of romanticism is present in literary works‚ poetry‚ performing arts‚ and music. During the period of romanticism‚ poetic creations were focused on nature’s attractiveness and individual

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    portrayal of the young ‘non-conformist’ Scott Hastings struggle to win the Pan Pacifics competition by the pursuit of his own personal dance; a rebellious action ensured to disrupt the natural order of the Australian Dance federation or ballroom dancing world‚ operated by the corruptive Barry Fife. As Scott throws his polka dot t-shirt in a corner of the studio revealing a simple shirt underneath‚ this is a simultaneous suggestion of his ‘breaking away’ from his old ballroom partnership with Liz

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    others because he doesn’t think boys can dance. The song is talking about dancing when “I was twelve” and “out of the womb” meaning danced at a young age like Billy. The phrases “I was dancing…” and “Is it strange…” are repeated many times throughout the song and its message connects with Billy and the movie. There are lyrics in the song that state “danced myself out the tomb” and “danced myself into the tomb” meaning dancing your whole life like Billy. This song wasn’t chosen by the director to sound

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    The expressionistic film “Strictly Ballroom” composed by Baz Luhrmann is about the spectacle of ballroom dancing. Tough not always in a literal sense‚ the film is not strictly about ball room dancing but also a “microcosm of society”. Moreover the contradictory forces within the society and the use of image to mediate social relations. This piece also fits in very well with Guy Debord’s “the society of the spectacle”. Debord’s work is a critique of modern capitalism. But more specifically for our

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    Young Ireland Movement. Near the end of the Young Ireland Movement the Great Potato Famine took place. This lead to the formation of the Gaelic League‚ which protected the culture of Ireland‚ and the most popular part of the culture today is Irish Dancing. The “Act of Union” was an act formed in 1801 between the two countries of Ireland and England‚ this act was formed to join Ireland and England together. The first time this act was proposed was in 1798‚ but this act was not officially

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