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    To what extent do Top Girls by Caryll Churchill and Dancing at Lughnasa by Brien Friel agree on the choices available to women? Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Brien Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa are both plays set in times of great change. The former deals with the implications of the electoral success of Margaret Thatcher‚ Britain’s first female Prime Minister‚ while the latter grapples with the consequences of industrialization in Donegal‚ Ireland. The chief concern of both plays is how political

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    DANCING AT LUGHNASA - ACT ONE STAGING P1 – chiaroscuro lighting state establishes atmosphere and non-realism from the start. A stylised tableau allows the audience to see the cast in its entirety. Michael‚ as an adult narrator‚ is a Brechtian device P2 – lighting is used for mood – probably straw and pink state to connote Summer. Props and set is organised to allow for cast to break from tableau into small-scale action representational of character eg ‘AGNES knits gloves’. P7 – the

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    ’s head if anything? Hismouth had opened as if he were about to speak. He has notsucceeded in being embraced by the bear but is embraced by the very womanwho torments him. What is significant about this quotation is that it links the longforgotten dancing bear to Dieter himself. Hax‚ "It was going to be one of those days. Lear is treated similarly by the daughters he gave the power tocontrol his kingdom. Again‚ in King Lear‚ the king is reduced to poverty by his daughtersand is humiliated by them‚

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    March 6‚ 2012 Professional Dancing “There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.” Edwin Denby. Dance has not left behind identifiable artifacts that prove when dance was created. It is not possible to place a date on when it became part of human culture. For billions of years people have expressed emotions and feelings through movements. Over the years dance has transformed into an art of great proportion in our daily life. Everyone dances for a different

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    Square dancing was first developed by lonely farmers as a means of entertaining and wooing their livestock (or at least that’s the rumor I’m choosing to believe/spread). But honestly‚ how drunk on moonshine and bored with wife-beating did people used to be to develop this jig of humiliation? More importantly‚ how—I reiterate HOW is it still around today? I mean wasn’t Bugs Bunny mocking this like 60+ years ago? Barnfolk during a hootenanny. Personally‚ I’m for jettisoning into the sun everyone

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    created tap dancing by combining their own ethnic dances while working on plantations. It was said to have began as “Juba” which was an African slave dance. Current research suggests that tap did not stem from plantations but in crowded‚ urban environments such as New York City. The fusion of cultures that originated tap dance influenced American culture by bringing different societies and ideas together. Master Juba or William Henry Lane was considered the “inventor of tap dancing.” In the late

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    Tap dancing has been called the "Second American Past time." But how was this dance created? How does it exist today? Read this article to learn about the history of tap dancing‚ and how it’s faring in modern times. Tap dance has a number of ancestors. It is a mixture of the English clog dance‚ Irish step dancing and African drum rhythms and dance movements. African dances that are directly linked to the nature of the tap dance are "juba" and "ring shouts‚" rollicking dances with a rhythmic

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    Title of Building: Dancing House Name of Architect: Frank Gehry Date Completed: 1996 Illustration of Work:  Frank Gehry. Dancing House. Prague‚ Czech Republic. http://www.columbia.edu/~beecher/prague/Dancing_House/0600/dancing_building_1.html. Part 1: Description of This Building Dancing House by Frank Gehry‚ was a building that was started in 1992 and was finished in 1996. The building obviously resembling a couple dancing‚ was first named after Fred Astair and Ginger Rodgers

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    Running head: DANCING FOX 1 SAMPLE APA PAPER (6 th ed.) Note: Per APA 6th edition‚ the header on the cover page is different from the rest of the paper. How one does this is go into page layout and page setup. In the bottom right corner is a box with an arrow. If the arrow is clicked‚ a box with page setup options appears. Under layout is the box to check to make a “different first page.” The cover page header includes the words Running head: and the header the student creates‚ in

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    ’s School of Performing Arts and The Ballet Academy‚ writes in Tap for beginner‚ “The term "tap dancing" is derived from the tapping sound produced when the small metal plates on the dancer ’s shoes touch a hard floor or surface.” In 125 Years of Tap‚ Jane Goldberg‚ a dancer-writer who is considered as one of the most prolific voices in the filed of tap dancing‚ writes: “What distinguishes tap [dancing] from most other dance forms is that it is two arts in one: music and dance. The dancers are ‘playing

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