First major Choreography “Jardi Tancat” which is Catalonian for “enclosed garden” by Nacho Duato performed in 1983 is based on Catalan folk tales. The work explores the hardship and sorrow of the Catalonian people as they struggle working in the barren, water stricken Catalonian land. Throughout Jardi Tancat you can see the presentation of contemporary dance, with a background of classical techniques; this is evident through the training accompanied. Throughout the performance you can see the influence of social, historical and cultural climate. Also the choreographer’s background, philosophical underpinnings, experience and intentions have an impact on the way the Nacho Duato’s piece came together.…
Beneath the Roses was an exhibition of twenty new large-scale photographs by Gregory Crewdson. In these pointedly theatrical yet intensely real panoramic images, Crewdson explores the recesses of the American psyche and the disturbing dramas at play within quotidian environments.…
I liked tap because you could make specific sounds and change the sounds and how the sounds could interact with the music if done right. I liked ballet because it seemed to be the basis of my childhood and it is the basis of dance. A year later my flexibility was falling short so I began to do an acro class, and because of how my schedule ended up I added a hip hop class because why not? Hip hop I liked just because it was something new. I liked finding things that were based on ballet and changed to the instructor's personality. I enjoyed acro because I was able to learn and perfect new tricks, and I could still work with other people because we did a routine. Unfortunately, that was the last year of doing a dance because people never showed up. I also was in a prepointe class, which was fun, but it was really more of just an extra ballet class, which made me happy anyways. The year after, I did not have a prepointe class, but I did have an extra harder tap class, which also made me…
Graffiti has developed over time to create a complex social framework, involving breakdancing, DJing, MCing and graffiti to form a popular youth culture referred to as "The urban Hip-Hop culture". These arts arose from New York, where gangs used these various methods as a way of…
Since its expansion throughout the South Bronx, hip hop culture has begun spreading to both urban and suburban communities throughout the entire world. Hip hop music was first appear with Kool Herc and modish disc jockeys and creating rhythmic beats by looping breaks on two turntables. It later became partners with the rap music genre, which is a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry often presented in 16-bar…
Peter Maass is a writer for the New York Times Magazine and has reported from Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East. He has written as well for The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, Slate, and The New Yorker. Maass is the author of the short story “The Wild Beast” taken from the book “Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War”, in which chronicles the Bosnian War and won prizes from the Oversea Press Club and the Los Angeles Times. He currently resides in New York City.…
The varieties of jazz dance reflect the diversity of American culture. Jazz dance mirrors the social history of the American people, reflecting ethnic influences, historic events, and cultural changes. Jazz dance has been greatly influenced by social dance and popular music. But, like so much that is “from America”, the history of jazz dance begins somewhere else.…
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?…
“Many Hip Hop aficionados claim that Hip Hop is made up of four main elements, which include Disc Jockeying, (Djing), rapping (emceeing), graffiti art, and break dancing,” (Alridge and Stewart, 191). Since the culture emerged in the South Bronx and spread throughout northeast U.S in the 1970s, it has dictated the dressing code, language and dialect, and world perspective. “Hip Hop is an aesthetic that influenced the lives of…
Hip-hop is a culture and form of ground music that is self-expressed. It originated in the African American communities in the 1970s. Hip-hop is a musical genre rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It is not only expressed verbally but also by DJing/scratching, break dancing, graffiti writing and beat boxing. Hip-hop is the way people talk, the way people act, their fashion and their culture. It is the culture of the streets.…
The hip-hop music genre escort in a culture of DJing, breakdancing, rapping and graffiti writing. (Mazzei 6-12) People think hip-hop is just people moving their body, specifically legs and arms. It is everything even your brain! Amazing right? “Hip-hop is a genre of music featuring stylized rhythmic music that accompanies rapping.” (The Origins of Hip-hop 26) Don’t just go around saying ‘I can do hip-hop! Wanna see?’, because really have you gone to a dance studio and actually learned hip-hop, probably not! Hip-hop acquires you to learn hip-hop in a dance studio and stay there for a few years.…
Hip-hop music is known as one of the most popularizing and popular genres in our modern society. Most of hip-hop music is considered vulgar, offensive, and meaningless, which can be easily displayed by hip-hop artists such as Soulja Boy and Lil’ Wayne. However, who gets lost in translation is the artist who conveys true meaning in their lyrics and sticks with the original roots of the music. For hip-hop’s short life, there has been dramatic change in the structure and culture of the music. Most of the well-revered artists of their time like to claim that the music has lost its substance. I have a concurring belief in that if hip-hop wants to rid of its negative stereotype, it should emphasize its roots more often. Two of hip-hop’s most respected authors, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, agree with this belief by stating, “hip hop today thrives on a sense of its own past” (Williams 133). In order to clarify my belief on this subject, I want to explain hip-hop’s origins and its positive impact on our society when it follows its roots.…
A popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city residents.…
Hip hop is now a popular kind of music and is known and liked throughout the world. This kind of music goes back to the 1970s, at that time it was an underground urban development. It was born in south Bronx, New York. As the hip-hop movement began at society’s margins, its origins are shrouded in myth, enigma, and obfuscation. music that is mostly rap, a rhyming speech that is chanted along with some music. It consists of a stylized rhythmic. The usage of literary devices and a lot of lyrics along with peppy music recited in a faster pace makes it different from the other genres of music. In hip-hop, the artist or singer, generally describes himself or the surroundings. Also, hip hop is not really singing and more like reciting so I feel that put it on a level where the lyrics are the real hero and everything just revolves around them. Beginnings of the dancing, rapping, and deejaying components of hip-hop were bound together by the shared environment in which these art forms evolved.…
My favorite style of dance has to be Latin dance, because I have grown up seeing my family dancing to salsa and bachata music in every family gathering. My family have tried to teach me, how to dance to bachata but I could never get the right steps, without accidently stepping on my cousin’s feet. I seem to lack in the dancing field for so reason. Except, when it comes to Zumba; which is a popular fitness program inspired by Latin dance. Zumba is a type of aerobic dance that uses upbeat Latin dance with a mix of cardiovascular exercises, that helps people lose weight, while having fun dancing. This type of fitness dance has a bit of everything, such as Merengue, Salsa, Cumbia, Reggaeton, Flamenco, Samba, Bachata, Cha-Cha, Soca, Tango, sometimes includes Hip Pop and…