The Historical Context of Performance‚ Dance. In this essay I have been researching and will be discussing the different contexts of west side story. This will help me to critically comment on the portrayal of Romeo and Juliet through the use of dance. West Side Story is a modern-day version of Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet‚ west side story however is set in the Upper West Side of New York City in the late 1950s with conflict between two teenage rival street gangs of different ethnic and
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Final Outline Dirty Dancing and Save the Last Dance Thesis statement: Should people change to fit into a new environment? A person has to give a little of themselves in order to grow. We befriend different types of people for many reasons. Dirty dancing vs. Urban Hip-hop: Dirty dancing is sensual‚ suggestive dancing with a partner. To dirty dance is to dance with abandon‚ with your body loosened up and your whole being thrown into the rhythm. Baby is a teenage girl who crosses over into womanhood
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evident in the PDHPE and Dance curricula‚ as students explore the demands of literacy in relevant physical and intellectual contexts. The NSW Dance 7-10 syllabus has several major literacy requirements evident in the content areas‚ and specific outcomes. Performance Students develop knowledge‚ understanding and skills through the three content areas of performance‚ composition and appreciation. Although the area of dance performance devotes a large amount of time to practical dance technique training
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The JMU Senior Dance Concert was produced and choreographed by the graduating seniors who majored in dance as part of their final thesis. The dance concert was held on February 11-13th at the Forbes Theater. The dance performances had mixtures of ballet‚ contemporary‚ modern‚ and hip-hop dance combined to create exciting and alluring dance pieces. The theme that the seniors chose for their final performances was “home”. The first dance began with the lights off and the stage dark. Then
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The Roaring 20’s There were many things that contributed to the so called “roaring “of the 1920’s. Some were things such as the economy was booming due to the nation’s wealth more than doubling‚ automobiles were made to be more affordable to accommodate the middle classes budget‚ nationwide advertising had a huge effect on socialism‚ and white collar jobs increased greatly opening up many new private businesses. The doubling of the nation’s wealth had a lot to do with the white collar jobs that were
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Lauer 1 T21 Mr.Vale 17 Nov. 2007 I. Thesis: The United States’ ban of the Indian Sun Dance in 1883 damaged the religious‚ cultural‚ and social framework of the Indians and was a key step in the United States’ effort to try to assimilate Indians into American society. II. Introduction Banning of the Sun Dance and the Historical Events that Led to the Indian Sun Dance Ban: 1. Due to the diminishing supply of buffalo in the 1870s and 1880s‚ and the Indians’ forced movement
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growth that happened during the 1920 ’s was very significant to sports today. Baseball wasn ’t always as popular is it was today. Babe Ruth started trending the high powered offense in Major League Baseball ("1920 ’s...and along came Babe"). Fans were impressed and helped baseball get a better fan base. Golf was also a new trending sport in the 1920s. Golf started getting more popular when they started to offer a reward to the winner such as 10‚000 in the LA open ("1920 ’s golf history"). Lastly football
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the dancer to the past‚ each new community brings something distinct to the dance. Salsa dancers adapt the culture to new environments while retaining some of their traditional ideals and values because those ideals are based on acceptance of new influences. The Salsa community has the principle of inclusiveness on the dance floor; this is the main reason why Salsa dancing has become so popular. The attitude on the dance floor is always accepting no matter how advanced and intimidating the dancers
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Kamau focuses on the West Indian dance and how people only see it as a dance and not a historic symbol with an emotional connection to it. Based on one’s culture‚ not all people will interpret things the same way. In this case‚ not everybody will view the limbo dance as a symbolic dance with lots of history behind it because of where‚ when‚ and how people were raised. Their culture doesn’t view it any different than just a dance. To Edward Kamau’s culture‚ the limbo dance symbolizes the transatlantic
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Boom and Bust At those times the United States of America were a land of opportunities. The 1920s were known as the boom years. The economic boom and bust in America was based around the consumer good‚ mostly luxury items that people wanted to buy but didn’t really need. American industry had profit by selling war goods to Britain and France. The disruption to British and French industry allowed America to become the world leading exporter. America only joined the war by the end‚ so it had
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