DANCE ELEMENTS RELATED WITH MYTHOLOGICAL STORIES INTRODUCTION OF KATHAK The word ‘Kathak’ comes from the root katha‚ which means story- telling. Literal meaning of the word kathak is related to katha‚ the art of story-telling‚ “Katha Kahe So Kathaka Kahave”‚ which means “one who tells a story is a story-teller”. According to M. Monier Williams‚ Katha denotes conversation‚ story‚ speech‚ tale or fable. Katha also means to ‘ sing in praise’‚ ‘to say or inform something’. Thus‚ kathakars were originally
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played by Rainer Krenstetter‚ commanded the stage and was mesmerizing to all who watched. Following the Ringmaster’s entrance‚ children of various ages from the Miami City Ballet School reminded the audience of what it was like to be young and have a passion for something. Although brief‚ the ‘Circus Polka’ dance was a pleasant
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became true. When they first came to america they didn’t speak english and had to learn english and what it was like in america. Michaelas mom realized that she wanted to do ballet and told her once she learned english she would sign her up for classes. As they grew older they went to school and michaela and mia continued to take ballet classes. They had a brother teddy who was older then them but they loved him but when they were 14 he got really sick and passed away after being sick for years. Michaela
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change to attend my ballet classes every Tuesday‚ Thursday and Sunday for one hour each. Then I have guitar lessons on the same days in the same buildings. I also am on my Masjids Muslim girl swimming team. Along with this I do henna tattoo at a salon. My various hobbies and interests have influenced my values and my community. At the age of fourteen‚ I was going through stress and depression due to rumors about me at school. My mom enrolled me in ballet classes and soon ballet became my life. I
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Take Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker‚” set it in a 1960’s U.S. suburbia‚ remove the Sugar Plum Fairy and add sexual and homosexual overtones‚ and you have Mark Morris’s “The Hard Nut” – an adaptation of the original ballet inspired by the comic book artist‚ Charles Burns‚ whose work is “deeply instilled with archetypal concepts of guilt‚ childhood‚ mystery‚ adolescent sexuality and poignant portrayals of post-war America” (The Hard Nut: A Look Back). Morris’s story can be described as the background
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most scholars simply define it as the art of designing and arranging dance‚ American ballet icon George Balanchine distinguished dance choreography as “an expression of time and space‚ using the control of movement and gesture to communicate‚” (Anderson 5). This definition puts emphasis on the rigid structure and body control required to successfully produce a piece of choreography‚ an idea not uncommon in the ballet community (Conoley-Paladino). Like Balanchine‚ modern dance icon Merce Cunningham
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choreographed by Holly Hobbs and danced by a nine different dancers‚ including Kathryn DuHadaway‚ Elizabeth Garner‚ Sophie Marie Gorecki‚ Micah Heinz‚ Sarah Kilgore‚ Colleen Prince‚ Stephen Rupp‚ Jessica Skoudis‚ and Rachel Watson. Many people find classic ballet and the baroque period it flourished in rather stiff‚ stuffy‚ and stuck up— “Picture This” captured all the frivolity and superfluousness of
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Lions‚ tigers‚ and bears‚ oh my! Don’t let this playful production fly by! From May 13 - 15‚ The Brandywine Ballet will transform West Chester University’s Emilie K. Asplundh Concert Hall into the Land of Oz with its reprise performance of the “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Resident Choreographer‚ Nancy Page‚ brought L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s book‚ “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” to center stage with the company’s premiere performance in 2011. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” follows the classic
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local ballets. He also started taking piano lessons when he was 9 years old and continued on with musical notation and composition instruction. All throughout his early life he studied music. However‚ although he had been brought up with music and loved it dearly‚ his parents did not want him to pursue a musical career. His background was musical. His parents viewed his efforts as a musician as childish‚ but on the other hand indulged him in it with the piano and the operas and the ballets. In 1902
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of gender and masculinity) This essay examines the visual representations of working-class masculinity portrayed in Stephen Daldry‟s stage musical adaptation of the film Billy Elliot (2000). After a brief discussion of the portrayal of the male ballet dancer in the dancing scene since the 1990s and the inherent voyeuristic inclinations of contemporary audiences‚ the analysis will focus on five aspects of male presence in Billy Elliot the Musical (2005). The dynamics of working-class masculinity
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