Shay Conley 11/09/2011 Research Paper Dancing “Fun.” “ Flowing.” “ Elegant.” “Wild.” “Graceful.“ “Beautiful.” These are all words describing a body movement to the rhythm and beats of music. “Dancing is your pulse‚ your heartbeat‚ your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement‚ in happiness‚ joy‚ sadness and envy.” ( “What is the Meaning of Dancing“) Dancing can be done with a partner or alone. The origins‚ styles‚ and important forms
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also be ceremonial‚ competitive or erotic. Dance movements may be without significance in themselves‚ as in ballet or European folk dance‚ or have a gestural vocabulary or symbolic meaning as in some Asian dances. “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
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Dancing has been an important part of my life for more than eight years. When I was eight‚ my mother enrolled me in dancing classes‚ never realizing it would lead to anything serious. For the first few months‚ dance was entertainment‚ something to keep me busy. Although I enjoyed taking classes‚ I did not become serious until the following year‚ when my favorite tap teacher told my mother to consider getting me involved in more competitive classes. That was the beginning of my long and successful
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Hula Dancing Hula dancing is a Hawaiian tradition that‚ through dance movements‚ chants‚ and varying levels of instrumentation‚ tells stories. Most of the time they are legends or accounts of historical events. After reading the article I have realized that hula dancing is much more than just people moving their bodies to music. It is a tradition that runs very deep in Hawaii and it has been a very important part of their culture for hundreds and maybe even thousands of years. I have learned in
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Ballroom dancing is a fantastic sport to do‚ even though many people don’t share the same view as I have. Ballroom dancing is the only sport that uses both your body and your mind at the same time. The two people in the image are WA’s Best Youth couple. This couple that you see in front of you are Brodie Bardon and Lana Skrgic –De-Fonseka. As you can most likely tell this is a real image. The image shows a male and a female ballroom dancing couple performing their routine at a competition. The
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I love to dance. Dancing is my thing and I’ve been involved with dance ever since I was young. When I dance‚ I feel free‚ I’m into it and I have good feelings whenever I’m into it and I have good feelings whenever I’m doing it. Also‚ I love music and music plays a big role with dancing. I joined my first dancing class when I was five years old I loved it. Ever since that‚ I’ve continued to attend dance classes as years passed by. I’ve done ballet‚ jazz‚ tap and hip-hop. I presently take dance class
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Dancing Skeletons In the ethnography‚ “Dancing Skeletons‚ the author Katherine Dettwyler describes many reasons for her research in Mali. The main focus of her research was too attack the problem of malnourished children and to figure out what diseases they were struggling with. This ethnography detailed Dettwyler’s second trip to Mali‚ and she wanted to relocate many of the children she had previously measured‚ as well as add more children to her study. Throughout the ethnography‚ Dettwyler makes
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English 100 14 September 2013 Memories From the Past The written text and photograph for Judith Ortiz "Silent Dancing" reflects back on Cofer’s unhappy confusing childhood. Cofer recalls most of her memories from a silent video; both the story and photograph paint a garden of grey memories of isolation‚ unsettling situations‚ the struggles of assimilation‚ and the sadness she experiences as a child. My goal of this essay is to compare and explain the similarities of Cofer’s text
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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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Lion Dancing Every time when you see youth swiftly glistening over the rampaging ungodly Earth accompanied with the blistering heated wonder of the orb-like sun‚ it can take you back to your exhilarating days with no headaches‚ worries‚ or obligations also known as‚ childhood. Worries‚ headaches‚ obligations‚ these are enemies within ourselves that we must overcome. These flea-like worries are infesting everyone. We are being overwhelmed by these creatures. The only ways to fight off such
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