Khloe DiBiase 2/9/14 G. Hambrick Dance 170-001 Dance Now! Dance Now was an event compiled of thirteen separate performances. Dr. Yoav Kaddar was the artistic director‚ and is also the assistant professor of dance here at WVU. This production was overall a great production. It offered exciting performances and creative work by students and faculty‚ and hosted thrilling dance by students of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School as well as a performance by the Motown Strutters. While most of
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Dance History II‚ Mid-Semester Exam Study Questions Prepare answers for all of the questions below. On the exam you will answer 8 questions: 4 that I select and 4 that you select = 8 total. The length of each answer should be one-half page or more. 1. How did the Ballet Russe under the Russian director‚ Diaghilev‚ break from the ballet traditions of Russian ballet in the early 20th century? What were the existing ballet traditions at the end of the 19th century in Russia and what new innovations
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Modern dance What is Modern Dance? Modern dance in my eyes is a form of dance which focuses on the serious expression of the inner emotions‚ using a free-flowing‚ interpretive style‚ rather than following the rigid rules characteristics of many dance disciplines. When modern dance first developed at the turn of the 20th century‚ it was considered extremely radical and iconoclastic; over the years since‚ modern dance has become more closely mingled with other disciplines like jazz dance‚ ballet
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Disco is a genre of dance music that that had its roots in clubs that catered to African American‚ psychedelic and other communities in New York City and Philadelphia during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While disco was a form of black commercial pop music and a craze among black gay men especially‚ it did not catch mainstream attention until it was picked up by the predominantly white gay clubs of New York. Latinos and women embraced disco as well‚ and the music eventually expanded to several
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Being a dance is not an easy job but it’s definitely something that I want to do. Dance is to "to move your body in a way that goes with the rhythm and style of music that is being played" or in simpler words to just perform. I have been dancing for as long as I can remember‚ as long as there is music there will be dance and as long as I’m here there will be dance in my soul. Being a dancer has always been a dream of mine. I love dance because it’s give me a new perspective on life and
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first moment that I stepped onto the stage‚ any career possibility that involved something other than dancing didn’t seem like a plausible one for me. It wasn’t until I was about fourteen that I really took to the idea of living in New York City‚ the dance capital of the world. As a freshman in high school‚ it seemed that everyday brought with it some conversation or lecture about college possibilities. With each month it seemed that more of my friends had figured out what they were going to do after
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position and when the music echoed throughout the auditorium‚ she began to dance. For the past hour‚ the girl had been dancing‚ and yet she still didn’t seem tired. This was her final dance‚ yet she performed as if it was her opening act. Every step was neat‚ in sync to the music‚ and was graceful. She twirled around elegantly and finished her debut with a stunning pose. After taking a deep bow‚ the girl talked about her dance life. She said that the only reason why she was able to dance properly for an
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is every girl dream‚ it’s a celebration of a girls fifteenth birthday. It’s a tradition where a girl turns into a woman. A Quinceanera is planned one year before your fifteenth birthday. It starts out with a ceremony‚ food reception‚ and a Surprise dance to end it. All my family and friends were there on my big day. On November 22‚ 2008‚ I had one of my memorable nights‚ where I felt like a total princess. My birthday is November 11‚ but since it wasn’t a Saturday on that day‚ I set the date to November
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physical nature of dance‚ it is not surprising that throughout Mesoamerica it relates to somatic sensations. For example‚ the Dominican friar Diego Duran disapprovingly describes the Aztec Tickling Dance as "so roughish as to be compared to our own Spanish dance called the saraband‚ with all its wriggling and grimacing and immodest mimicry." Duran also mentions that the term for this dance‚ cuecuechcuicatl‚ can also mean "dance of the itch‚" a connotation very similar to conceptions of dance among the ancient
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Music is found in every known culture‚ past and present‚ varying wildly between times and places. Since all people of the world‚ including the most isolated tribal groups‚ have a form of music‚ it may be concluded that music is likely to have been present in the ancestral population prior to the dispersal of humans around the world. Consequently music may have been in existence for at least 50‚000 years and the first music may have been invented in Africa and then evolved to become a fundamental
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