athletic sport. Dance is often categorized with the performing arts and not given full credit for the physical dedication and commitment it takes in order to be a professional dancer. People need to ask themselves‚ “Is the dedication to becoming a top notch football player any different than the dedication it takes to excel as a dancer?” The answer to that question is no. Dance should be considered a sport because the intensity that is required to excel is the same as any other athletic athlete. Dance
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unique thing about dance is that everyone has different interpretation of it‚ just like any other form of art. The music and dance movements play a huge role in understanding the dancers piece. The music used and the dance moves flow perfectly with each delicate movement. The amazing thing about dance is how the dancer can merge their emotions through the movement and the music. These two important influences give us a free pass to analyze the words they are trying to express through movement alone
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myself to feel the breath in the movement everything became easier to me. But of course it was hard at first‚ I was a hardcore ballet dancer. Since I’ve studied the style of modern dance I can say that we had modern style dances coming up out of the gate that had yet became so popular today. You’ve studied graham as I have but‚ when I studied graham some of her dancer like Paul Taylor‚ Merce Cunningham or Alvin Ailey was just breaking into the scene. You guys have it lucky. I learned a lot of Isadora
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that they enjoyed the music and dance the slaves had created. In minstrel shows‚ white entertainers parodied their conception of slave life and popularized the African style of dance and music (Naden 37). With white dancers as the star performers‚ it was difficult for a black dancer to gain stature as part of a dance troupe. Because of this‚ many black performers migrated to Europe‚ where they introduced the newly emerging forms of Jazz music and Jazz dance. In Europe‚ these talented and innovative
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Gerald L. Archard November 22‚ 2010 2nd block dance 2 Dance Pioneers‚ Companies‚ and Choreographers Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey‚ Jr. was an African American modern dancer‚ dance teacher and choreographer‚ who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ailey was a gifted creator of dance expressing the African American cultural experience and history. His choreographic works live on in performances by the company he founded. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater toured extensively and
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his poetry‚ but also in his short stories. For example‚ his story‚ "The Child of Lancashire‚" published in 1893 in The London Gazette‚ is about an child who travels to London‚ where his parents die‚ and he becomes a street urchin. There are veiled implications that the child is a homosexual (as was Housman‚ most probably)‚ and he becomes mixed up with a gang of similar youths‚ attacking affluent pedestrians and stealing their watches and gold coins. Eventually he leaves the gang and becomes
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Recreation is an activity of leisure. Recreational activities are often done for enjoyment‚ amusement‚ or pleasure and are considered to be "fun". The term "recreation" implies participation to be healthy refreshing mind and body..Kinds of recreation.strolling.. Cycling is becoming increasingly popular as well.. Swimming and sunbathing.. lPicnics and shish-kabobs Picnics often involve shish-kabobs or barbequed meat‚ homemade salads‚ and‚ of course‚ alcohol.. Extreme sports (hangliding‚ bungee jumping
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variation for Spain was doughnuts and pastries. The girl dancer wore a black long dress with colorful doughnuts on it‚ and she did not wear ballet shoes. The guy dancer wore a black and neon pink matador style costume. The two did a flamenco dance for this variation. Then in Barishnikov’s version of the Spain variation they were hot chocolate instead‚ but the guy dancer still had the matador style costume with the color orange. As for the girl dancer she also had the matador style dress and an orange
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Question 1: Give an account of the socio-historic context of the work Cry In the early 17th Century‚ European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper‚ more plentiful labour source than indentured servants. After 1619‚ when a Dutch ship brought 20 African ashore at the British colony of Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ slavery spread throughout the American colonies. Though it is impossible to give accurate figures‚ some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million slaves were imported
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Section 1: Identification and evaluation of sources Question: What was the role of ballet in political relations between the United States and the Soviet Union? Source 1: Croft‚ Clare. "Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 US State Department-Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union." Theatre Journal 61‚ no. 3 (2009): 421-42. In this study by Clare Croft‚ the political and social factors behind the New York City Ballet’s tour of the Soviet Union is explained in depth and includes multiple
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