girls at my dance studio. Now at the age of eleven‚ my love for dance continues. When I was four‚ I was part of my studio’s recital.It was an honor for me. My other young and I friends danced to the lion sleeps tonight. Of course being four year olds‚ it was a lot of blindly wandering around the stage. My skill has greatly advanced from that day. Over the years I have performed jazz‚ ballet‚ tap‚ hip-hop‚and contemporary. Between eight years and ______ costumes‚ my passion for dance has grown.
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Jazz dance dates all the way back to 5‚000 – 9‚000 years ago. Although many people believe that jazz dance originated from United States‚ it actually came from early African cultures. In Africa‚ natives danced to celebrate cycles of life such as birth‚ puberty‚ marriage‚ and death. Child‚ adults‚ and the elderly depended on jazz dance to express their culture and beliefs. People from Africa who were later sold into the slave trade around the late 1800’s to mid 1900’s brought the dance with them
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traditional form of music and dance originated in Colombia ’s Caribbean coastal region; its roots come mainly from Africa‚ in fact the name of this traditional dance its comes from the African term cumbé which means revelry or party. However‚ Cumbia is a musical and cultural fusion of Native Colombians‚ slaves brought from Africa‚ and the Spanish. Today Cumbia is the national dance of Colombia which gradually has evolved around this music and came to be known as the Cumbia dance. Cumbia started in the
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SOCIAL BALLROOM DANCE ORIGINS Emmylou Cortez Nicolas BS Biology 1A Prof. Felipa Oliquino PE 2 SWING DANCING HISTORY The swing dance is not a single form/kind of dance but a group of various dances which developed in the earlier half of the twentieth century. These dance forms flourished with jazz or swing style of music. The origin of these swing dances can be traced back to the vernacular African-American dance forms. Today‚ the most popular form of swing dancing is Lindy Hop. In
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The dance performance I chose to review was a recording of the performance Construct by Australian choreographer and dancer Tanja Liedtke. Construct was performed on April 2nd‚ 2009 in Seattle‚ Washington. The type of dance performed in Construct was contemporary modern. Though there were no actual stopping points‚ or named dances in this performance they did however have different sections of different dances with unique styles and props. The three sections I am going to write about really caught
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The Hobby-Horse Dance is a form of ceremonial dance found in the West Country of England. The central figures of the dance include a man covered with a cloak and wearing a horse mask. The most famous example I read about from Rippon was this‚ ”In England the hobby-horse is very much alive still at Padstow and Minehead celebrating the coming of spring. And throughout all the written references we can’t fail to perceive in all the animal guisers bringers in of fertility at the turn of the year” (Rippon
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Tarantella In Italian culture‚ the word “tarantella” evokes images of a frenzied spinning dance traditionally played at weddings. However‚ this popular native dance of Southern Italy has a history and myth spanning several centuries. The dance‚ originally an Italian folk dance of the lower- and middle-classes‚ has been labeled as a dance to cure sickness and as a dance of courtship. In the courtship version of the dance‚ the woman uses rapidity and liveliness to excite the love of her partner. In turn‚
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ballet tradition dating back to the 19th. This subject holds particular significance to me. I have danced for most my life‚ and as a young girl I desperately wanted to dance in pointe shoes. Pointe work seemed like the pinnacle of achievement for a dancer‚ and I waited anxiously for my instructor to allow it. When I eventually began to dance on pointe I realized two things. One: pointe work requires a level of pain tolerance that I do not have. Two: most of the other girls taking pointe seemed young‚ between
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my resume. What you can not see on my resume is the profound impact dance has had on not only me as a leader but my life as a whole. I started dancing when I was 3 years old and 14 years later I’m still dancing. Spending 12 of those years at the same dance studio‚ Dancentre South‚ has allowed me to not only influence my dance studio but the community it creates and is surrounded by. I started assisting and demonstrating for dance classes when I was 12‚ this class started my career of not only helping
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You expect a comedy’ to tickle your funny bone so you can walk out chuckling. Yes‚ Shall We Dance does raise laughs. But - it also raises some interesting questions. The DVD says it’s A New Comedy About Following Your Own Lead’ and a pun like that is bound to appeal to the individualistic age we are supposed to be living in. It does indeed and yet‚ what is happiness and contentment? Is it a lovely‚ loving and loved spouse and all the trappings of a comfortable settled life? Can there be a
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