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    Technicalities of Dance

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    integration of music and dance. There it hangs on a stage like any other painting on a wall; a moving portrait. However‚ the many stereotypes formed among the dancers have altered the way some view the performances of dance. Especially in the modern and ballet genres‚ while the dancers pour their heart and soul into the movements‚ why does the audiences’ perspective change with a shift from female to male leads? What if the movements just did not meet our standards of liking or fit our taste? Do we enjoy

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    Jazz impacts on society

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    such as ballet‚ or tap. It plays more entertaining music to keep the audience entertained and more tuned in‚ in my opinion. In jazz you have more freedom then you do in most other forms of dances. Jazz is also more of a comfortable dance. In most other dances there is a definite set of body positions. Also in Jazz you can incorporate many different dances into it and is done to faster more music that people listen to today. Jazz dancing also has more sudden moves. Also‚ for example ballet‚ you have

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    Billy Elliot

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    England Film: • Strong family images (still images) vs. strike of miners = rich family life vs. violence (contrast) • Scab = industrial relations talk – people who go to work even when union is on strike • Cultural – ballet vs. boxing • Setting deliberately places boxing and ballet in one room = two extremes • Billy with grandmother – cleaning mothers gravestone • Working class – industrial chimneys • Grey and bleak images – symbolic of plight of the working class • Green of grass vs. factory

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    account of her striking womanliness. It is‚ therefore‚ not surprising how often she is cast in the ballets of Justin Peck. She appeared in no less than three of the four works featured in the program of the Festival (No. 3) dedicated to Mr. Peck’s choreography. In Creases has not had the benefit of an extended run during any season since its premiere five years ago. Regardless‚ it is a lovely ballet. An ensemble work for eight dancers who during its course create luxuriant patterns‚ all in the cast

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    the years‚ some of his most popular ballets have changed music and the way we see it: The Firebird‚ Petrushka‚ and The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky was born on the 17th of June in 1882. He was raised in the small town of Oranienbaum‚ Russia. He was raised by his mother and father who were both musicians. His father was a bass singer in the opera and his mother was a well renounced pianist. As a small child Igor was interested in music‚ he attended operas and ballets on many occasions. He took

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    money‚ how much you might ask? Enough to buy 21‚966 chocolate bars bars! Time Constraints A Prima Ballerina could train for 6 days a week. So‚ they don’t have a ton of time to relax. On a day that has a performance‚ it will usually start with a ballet class‚ and stretching before it. Then‚ they’ll have rehearsals and some down time throughout the day.

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    themselves they had to pick cotton‚ and do domestic work. At an early age Alvin showed interest in art by drawing pictures. When Alvin first discovered dance and fell in love with concert dance‚ he was at a junior high school field trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlos. Inspired by performances of the

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    Maos Last Dancer

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    West ideology. "Mao ’s Last Dancer" tells the tale of Li Cunxin‚ a Chinese dancer in the Houston Ballet‚ and his adventures. The book also includes various members of Li ’s family‚ his dance teachers at his ballet academy and the friends he makes as he travels to the U.S.A.   At the age of 11‚ Li was taken from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao ’s cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979‚ during a cultural exchange trip to Texas‚ he fell in love with an American woman. Two

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    Billy Elliot

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    Stephen Daldry. In the film by “Billy Elliot” directed by “Stephen Daldry” the setting of North East England in 1984 is very important. In 1984 the miners were on strike‚ poverty was common amongst the working class miners and Billy wanted to do ballet instead of boxing. The verbal and visual features used in the film helped me understand the importance of the setting. In this paragraph I am going to describe an important setting of North East England County Durham from the film I have studied

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    composing in ballet‚ film and musicals‚ and also his lectures. The first song on the CD is called “Fanfare for the common man”. This piece was written in 1942 by Aaron Copland for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugene Goossens. During World War II many composers were asked to create fanfare music to celebrate for the war effort.

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