Question: Explain how the elements of dance are used in Alvin Ailey’s Cry to engage the audience. For example space/time/dynamics‚ relationship In 1971‚ Alvin Ailey created one of his best-known ballets ‘Cry’ as a birthday present for his mother Lula Ailey. Ailey dedicated it to ‘all black women everywhere‚ especially our mothers.’ The three-part ballet was to popular and gospel music by Alice Coltrane‚ Laura Nyro and Chuck Griffin. The Ballet is interpreted to display the hardship and servitude
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Appreciation of out of Africa from The Intercultural Communication Perspective Abstract : out of Africa‚ directed by Sydney Pollack‚ is one of the best movies in American film history. It tells a story happened between European settlers and African natives during 1914~1931. Through showing the leader actress’s love‚ marriage‚ life style and her experiences in Africa‚ the movie presents the audience a cultural feast. This paper tries to appreciate the movie from an intercultural communication
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Alejandra Gutierrez Period:3 The Scramble of Africa forever changed the people of Africa. Many wanted the colonization to end. When the Europeans left‚ the continent was fractured. Many countries struggled to survive. Violent conflict was unavoidable in some instances‚ such as when it came to independence‚ apartheid‚ and ethnocentrism. To begin with‚ almost all of Africa wanted independence. Including the Kikuyu‚ this lead to unavoidable conflict. According to My World Geology Book on page 182
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Imperialism in Africa: The Republic of Congo Thesis: Imperialistic practices of Belgium in the early 20th century‚ such as overworking employees in the rubber industry‚ led directly to low literacy rates‚ high crime rates and an unstable economy today in the Republic of Congo. Evidence: Belgians were drawn to imperialize the Congo because of its strategic location and the abundance of natural resources. Analysis: That being said‚ that was the only reason the Belgians came. They had no interest
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I am called Binte I am one of the women that has been trapped inside the great horrifying white bird that has gulped me down and I am currently in the birds stomach‚ I have so much fear inside me it makes me wonder if I am going to ever be set free from there disgusting pain I only wish to have my family beside me. I remember the days were I was free to play with my friends‚ and I was told
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Never Cry Wolf For years‚ wolves have been falsely accused for crimes in stories‚ myths‚ and life. In Never Cry Wolf‚ author Farley Mowat demonstrates how even though wolves are mistakenly stereotyped as evil; people don’t know anything without evidence. Farley Mowat takes a trip to Churchill‚ Canada‚ to study Arctic wolves for the Canadian Wildlife Service. He is studying the Arctic wolves because he needs to prove that the wolves are killing all the migrating caribou. During the entire
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the percussive piano accents in relation to movement. For example‚ the dynamic emphasis of the gestures Ailey uses. “The power of Cry emanates from its defiantly shifting images of identity in its first section‚ the bottomless abyss of sorrow approached in its second section and the transcendent quality of ecstatic faith engaged in the third section.” “ Cry became emblematic as an act of simultaneous defiance and release. As a depiction of contemporary African American identity‚ the dance
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freeman from being a slave – which in fact was the happiest day of his life. “On Being Brought from Africa to America” - Phillis Wheatley
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silent.” Music and poetry are two platforms in which artists from the beginning of time have chosen to circulate their ideas‚ feelings‚ and opinions. Although different in popularity‚ these mediums are alike in various ways. Nonetheless‚ not every song you hear on the radio can be properly analyzed using procedures that you would follow to evaluate poetry. A song has to contain certain literary elements essential to poetry‚ such as the song “From Eden” by Hozier‚ in order for it to be analyzed. Hozier
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Cry Freedom Steve Bantu Biko was born December 18th 1946 and died September 12th 1977. He was an apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s till 1970s. He did founded the Black Consciousness Movement‚ which would empower much of the urban black population. And he became famous for his slogan "black is beautiful"‚ the meaning of it was that you should be happy as you are and begin to look upon yourself as a human being. Steve Biko wanted to be a doctor and ergo is the reason why he studied
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