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    Irish Step Dancing

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    moves the dancers as a group into different configuration after every two eight counts. They are continuously moving and do not stay in the same formation for any length of time. At the blink of an eye‚ the dancers group into formations moving from dancing in a straight line to dancing around in a circle‚ which symbolizes the sun. The dancer’s upper body and hips seem motionless. From the hips down‚ the lively‚ quick and precise steps of the legs are doing the entire dance. The dancers cross their

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    History of Modern Dance

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    France: 16th - 17th century AD 6 18th and 19th centuries: from court dancing to Romanticism 8 Early 20th century: from ballet to contemporary dance 10 The Beginnings of Modern Dance 11 Early Dancers in the United States 11 German Contributions 12 The Second Generation in America 14 Later Dancers 16 The Combining of Forms 18 Conclusion 19 Bibliography 20 Introduction Esthetic questions of choreography in our special literature still represent a little studied area. It is because

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    Gamelan closely interacts with the dancer‚ each movement and gesture is reflected in the music and the same goes for the dancer as well. You can imagine the dancer as an instrument of the gamelan which is more of a visual thing. The dancer’s movements are associated to the instruments’ strokes and the dancer’s eyes have the same brightness as the metal’s sounds. The Involvement is very strong between the dancer and the drum. There are occasions where the dancer comes to play an instrument whilst

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    people‚ one must respect the value of teamwork‚ not only amongst fellow dancers‚ but with coaches and teachers as well. Each and every practice we worked collaboratively‚ dedicated and devoted to our ambition. Our teacher would help us develop our abilities with elite leadership. Likewise‚ leadership is necessary to ensure that a team’s accomplishments are not misguided‚ inadequate‚ or fruitless. I believe a dancer is someone who is generally admired. They are looked upon as people

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    The Role and Representation of Women: How they are Expressed Through Fashion Fashion‚ style and trends have always been a hugely important part of women’s lives‚ being a major creative outlet for women throughout the ages. But these trends are much more than just picking out something to wear each day from a cupboard of clothes: fashion is a way of expressing the role of women in society and how important and independent they are‚ and although style changes appear to be rapid and trivial‚ there

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    that dancers become both hyperaware and hypercritical about their bodies. This is because dancers are constantly made aware of their appearance due to practising in front of mirrors in brightly lit studios. The dancers with the right physiques get the part‚ therefore ballerinas often feel pressure to ‘conform to a certain look’ (Deirdre‚ 2012:137). Self-starvation such as the eating disorders anorexia nervosa and bulimia are often used in order to lose weight. One technique used by dancers to lose

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    Jardi Tancat Essay

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    In your answer‚ refer to the variety of configurations or groupings of dancers.” ‘Jardi Tancat’ which is Catalonian for ‘enclosed garden’ was Nacho Duato’s first major choreography. The work explores the hardship and sorrow of the Catalonian people as they struggle working in the barren‚ water stricken Catalonian land. Duato has portrayed this concept through the powerful movement of three female and three male dancers‚ all dressed in cool brown‚ red and purple earthy colours’ which represent

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    movements‚ artistic power and passion electrifies the audience. Dancers were Antonio Hidalgo‚ Leslie Roybal‚ Laura Peralta‚ Leilah Broukheim and Isaac Tovar. Musicians Gaspar Rodriguez‚ and Ricardo Anglada played guitar‚ Francisco Orozco played YiYi and also sang together with Roberto Lorente. La Pasion Flamenca had two parts. First part was La Pasion Latina and second part was La Pasion Flamenca. In the first part‚ La Pasion Latina‚ dancers performed famous Latino dances like Salsa from Cuba‚ norteno

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    in their career as a basketball player than a professional ballet dancer. The uniform of a basketball player is very basic and comfortable and quite cheap even as a professional player. Basketball players are much more famous and popular than ballet dancers‚ which is also why people would want to play professional basketball. They are liked more by the public and have many more fans and opportunities than a professional ballet dancer would. After professional basketball players retire which is usually

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    – Pierre Beauchamp Pierre Beauchamp lived from 1636 to 1705 he was born in Versailles a wealthy French area into a family of French dance masters; he was a French dancer‚ teacher and choreographer. He was the ballet tutor of King Louis XIV also known as the Sun King and was regarded as one of the finest dancers of his time. Beauchamp is also known to be the first to officially codify the five basic positions of ballet. The first assigned date of ballet is in 1581‚ when the so called Ballet Comique

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