I AM A DANCER Martha Graham was born on May 11‚ 1894‚ in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania and died on April 1‚ 1991. She was a modern dancer‚ instructor and icon of her time. In this article Graham speaks in a philosophical and spiritual sense about the meaning of dance in her life‚ about what it takes to be a dancer‚ and about her profession or calling in general. She feels that dance is a special form of art in which movements and gestures help one make the effort
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Mao’s Last Dancer 1. Identify your text and author Non-fiction text‚ autobiography: Mao’s Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin 2. What is this text about? Summarise the story or the premise of the text. The text is about a young‚ peasant boy called Li Cunxin who lives in a poor village in north-east China. The text is set around the rule of the communist party led by Chairman Mao. One day‚ Li is visited by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates at his school. They are searching for young children to be guards
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I lived in a small town named Harlem‚ and it was nice in the summer‚ but it ends up getting too hot in the summers. Most people here are people hanging out windows‚ people on fire escapes‚ and anywhere trying to get a cool breeze. Harlem was a town that you could get a job for a day and that’s it pretty much it. I loved playing the saxophone‚ so I tried to use that to get money but it didn’t work as well as I planned. My dad says I should get a part-time job‚ but I wanted full time to get extra money
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What made this area stand out compared the other parts of the city that I had visited before‚ was that painted murals could be found on many of the buildings. We walked on 103rd Street and came across one of my favorite murals the “Sprits of East Harlem” mural. Hank Prussing created this mural around the late 70s. The mural was created to show the individuals of the area taking part in their daily customs. The reason that this mural stood out to me the most was because growing up my grandmother had
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Describe the attributes of a good dancer. Discuss ways of improving each of these skills in a suitable training programme: (20 marks) A good dancer should have a range of attributes‚ which they use on a daily basis and in all their work. One of the first attributes of a dancer is having the correct alignment and posture. Posture is the position in which you hold your body upright against gravity whilst standing
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For dancers‚ a balanced food group diet is required involving diary‚ protein‚ grains‚ fruit/vegetables and fats. Through following this structured diet‚ a dancer will obtain the correct amount of caloric intake. The estimated calories a female dancer should digest through intense training are 45-50 calories per kilogram of body weight. Following this requirement will help prevent injury as obtaining a low caloric intake affects performance‚ growth and health. The benefit of protein for a dancer is
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The Harlem Renaissance was not the head of the Civil Rights Movement‚ but it was the neck because of the products it produced and the bricks it supplied for the house of equality. DuBois‚ founder of the renaissance‚ believed “That an educated Black elite should lead Blacks to liberation.” http://www.eram.k12.ny.us/education/components/whatsnew/default.php?sectiondetailid=23130&&PHPSESSID=e0a64029c09716761056932b46c6816b Art and literature came from the Harlem era. Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
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Act 1‚ scene 1 The music in the opening scene sets the theme Orsino opens the play with a lengthy monologue about love. He is a dreamer‚ very poetic. “If music be the food of love‚ play on”- Orsino It has been established that the main theme is ‘love’ It is a romantic comedy Technique- a rhyming couplet (two lines that rhyme at the end of a scene) a rhyming couplet is a summary of the scene (summarizing the previous lines) Act 1‚ scene 2 Act 1 scene 2 takes place in a ship wreck and the
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idea is best displayed in Mao’s Last Dancer‚ where we see a young boy‚ Li Cunxin‚ rise from the depths of communism to a shining star in the dance industry. And through his life’s journey we are shown his coming of age and ideologies shift one country to another. The mentality of journey’s is also capitalized in the poem Journey to the Interior where the physical journey can parallel to a more complex internal struggle and confusion. Thus both Mao’s last dancer and Journey to the Interior convey the
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with their own voices and living on their own terms? Mao’s Last Dancer takes place in old communist China‚ when Chairman Mao is at his most powerful. mao dominated the culture revolution leads people lose the Spiritual pursuit and freedom for more than ten years history in old China. Through the specific‚ image plots understanding the extraordinary experience of an ordinary people‚ that from li cunxin autobiography "mao’s last dancer". It is open to interpretation the love and sacrifice on his own
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