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    Discuss the ways that choreographers use the aural setting to help them to communicate the choreographic intention. Use a range of examples from at least three professional works. The aural setting can be used in many ways to communicate the choreographic intention‚ for example‚ it can help tell the story and it can enhance character‚ mood and atmosphere. The aural setting can also help to set the scene and tell you where a dance is set‚ for example‚ place or era. Nutcracker! (2002) by Matthew

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    HSC Dance Essay Response to assessment task Question: Discuss the context‚ subject matter and meaning of Nacho Duato’s ‘Jardi Tancat’and Alvin Ailey’s ‘Cry’ in relation to the movement‚ choreographic devices and compositional elements. Nacho Duato’s ‘Jardi Tancat (JT) and Alvin Ailey’s ‘Cry’ both explore different subject matters in the context of cultural perspectives to creat meaning through movement‚ various compositional elements and choreographic devices. Jardi Tancat was choreographed

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    According to dictionary.com‚ art is defined as skilled workmanship‚ execution‚ or agency as distinguished from nature.”(www.dictionary.com) Thefreedictionary.com defines art as “human effort to imitate‚ supplement‚ alter or counteract the work of nature.” (www.thefreedictionary.com). I translate this into man taking what is naturally created and either replicates‚ builds upon‚ changes in some form or completely opposes it with works of their own. Painting http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh

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    As with many of William Shakespeare’s various plays‚ Othello contains many soliloquies that enhance the play‚ bringing dramatic suspense and action for the audience‚ whilst at the same time‚ providing crucial information about the plot of the play and in the direction it is heading in. These soliloquies help the audience to understand that particular character as well as giving an insight to what that character is thinking. Not only do the soliloquies in Othello do that‚ the soliloquies also happen

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    pervades my work” Alvin Ailey. “She rises again to wear the cloth as a shawl‚ then steps on its ends as if bound by it to the ground…” “The final posture mirrors the opening posture of the dance‚ suggesting a cyclical inevitable progression of frustration and despair…” Ailey has abstracted this narrative to portray the woman’s despair. BEEN ON A TRAIN The use of the percussive piano accents in relation to movement. For example‚ the dynamic emphasis of the gestures Ailey uses. “The

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    There are a few students who have factors which have influenced their decision on whether or not they would like to go to college. I’ve interviewed a friend of mine named‚ Meagan King. She goes to Fordham University and is also a part of the Alvin Ailey Program. I asked her several questions such as‚ "Do you think college is needed in order to have a good career and why?‚ did your financial status affect whether u went to college?‚ how is the audition process?‚ Advice on college processes?‚ and how

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    She left the Ailey company in 1980 to star in the Broadway musical hit Sophisticated Ladies. • She also began to choreograph dances‚ and the AAADT premiered her first work 1984. Her other works include Just Call Me Dance (1984)‚ Into the Life (1987)‚ Hymn (1993)‚ Sweet Release (1996) and Double Exposure (2000). • Jamison began choreographing her own works and started the Jamison Project in 1988. A year later‚ shortly after Ailey’s death‚ Jamison became artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance

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    Music/dance 101 Alvin Ailey American Dance Company Performed by Donna Wood Dance “Cry” Dance Critique. Ballet “Cry” simply showed to us real life of all African women. Every single American people know what kind of life they went through. Therefore it touched their heard. Alvin Ailey’s “Cry” presented wonderfully combined movements‚ technique and emotion. Ms. Donna Wood uses tragic face‚ a mask of sorrow. It is a face born to cry

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    Cunningham or Alvin Ailey was just breaking into the scene. You guys have it lucky. I learned a lot of Isadora Duncan and Martha. But even then just in today modern dance as taken on a new approach.” She kept talking and everything she said was just

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    President of Statistical Patient Input (SPI)‚ a non-profit research foundation. Physical therapist for Earl Mosely’s Institute of the Arts summer program in Kent‚ CT 2010 to present where she treated dancers from NY City Ballet‚ Philadelphia Ballet‚ Alvin Ailey School‚ Mont Clair‚ among

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