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    this was enough inspiration to motivate me to pave away for the upcoming generation. Not only was it important to me to prove a point but also for children to know that they have a choice. Thankfully with my faith in god‚ guidance from my mother‚ and dance I was able to stay motivated and focused on accomplishing my goals. I began dancing at 4 years old‚ at The

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    of modern dance. He makes use of pedestrian movements such as walking‚ standing‚ and posing as if talking to each other or observing something. Cunningham utilizes quick and seemingly random movements like a jump in the middle of a dancer turning. The most important aspect of his choreography is the use of improvisation‚ or what looks like random movement created at that moment. However‚ he created each dancer’s movement ahead of time. Improvisation completely changed the way modern dance developed

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    Dance Dance revolution: Before my eyes the screen flashes with colourful arrows: left‚ left‚ right‚ right‚ front‚ back‚ left and right. My feet swing forwards‚ backwards and sideward‚ again and again. I am playing by interacting with the sounds and imagery which the arcade game is broadcasting. The tension is rising and the beat of the game is accelerating. Behind me‚ my friends watch me perform and I hear the enthusiasm in their voice while they cheer me on: ‘Got it‚ got it‚ got it. Nice one!’ While

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    Essay Hip Hop and Street Dance Is Hip Hop and Street dance one and the same? Most of the people would say a yes. Both these dance styles have been widely accepted by the youth today. Any dance forms can be matched up or vary with factors like origin‚ dance style‚ beats‚ moves and age limit. Although‚ the youth tend to use hip hop and street dance to mean the same thing‚ the fact is both these dance forms have been a success due to their individual creativeness. A dance is introduced only when

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    Japanese Butoh versus Western Modern Dance Ankoku Butoh –– or “Dance of Utter Darkness‚” is a Japanese dance form that emerged from a restless post-World War 2 Japanese society. The dance form is deeply influenced by Western thinkers‚ philosophers‚ and artists who adopts dark Gnostic principles‚ such as Georges Bataille and Antonin Artaud1. Butoh consistently focuses on themes considered taboo such as sexuality‚ eroticism‚ and other dark explorations of the dark soul. The art form surfaced because

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    ------------3 History of Ballroom Dance in China ---------------------------------------------------------------------3 Beginning -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3 Declines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 New Start Point----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4 Modern Dance -----------------------------------

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    Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance‚ primarily arising out of both Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The oversimplification of modern dance’s history often leads to the erroneous explanation that the art form emerged merely as a rejection of‚ or rebellion against classical ballet. An in-depth analysis of the context of the emergence of modern dance reveals that as early as the 1880s‚ a range of socioeconomic changes in both

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    Since the early 1900’s‚ swing dancing has livened up the dance floors across the United States. Many versions of swing dancing are still in existence today. Of those dances (the Lindy Hop‚ Jitterbug‚ East Coast Swing‚ West Coast Swing‚ and the Charleston)‚ the two most common amongst the social dancers are the East Coast Swing and West Coast Swing. Though they derived from the same dance‚ the Lindy Hop‚ many things set them apart from one another. The style‚ frame‚ and beat of the West Coast Swing

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    types of dances. To start‚ classical modern dance has been around since the 19th and 10th centuries. This genre came out of Germany and the United States and is a theatrical dance style. Many choreographers rebelled against ballet and vaudeville in the 20th century and that is how modern dance started. Many Americans thought this dancing style was weird or odd because it was like nothing they had seen before. While watching the rite of spring‚ I did not feel that it was a classical modern dance style

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    and Contrast of Classical Ballet and Modern Dance Dance is one of the most beautiful‚ expressive forms of art known to mankind. It expresses joy‚ love‚ sorrow‚ anger‚ and the list truly goes on for all the possible emotions that it can convey. Dance not only can express how one feels‚ but it can tell a story or even be used to praise a higher power. Dance has intricately played an important role to every culture over the course of time. Two forms of dance that have not only stood against the test

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