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    Notes on Cry

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    pervades my work” Alvin Ailey. “She rises again to wear the cloth as a shawl‚ then steps on its ends as if bound by it to the ground…” “The final posture mirrors the opening posture of the dance‚ suggesting a cyclical inevitable progression of frustration and despair…” Ailey has abstracted this narrative to portray the woman’s despair. BEEN ON A TRAIN The use of the percussive piano accents in relation to movement. For example‚ the dynamic emphasis of the gestures Ailey uses. “The

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    There are a few students who have factors which have influenced their decision on whether or not they would like to go to college. I’ve interviewed a friend of mine named‚ Meagan King. She goes to Fordham University and is also a part of the Alvin Ailey Program. I asked her several questions such as‚ "Do you think college is needed in order to have a good career and why?‚ did your financial status affect whether u went to college?‚ how is the audition process?‚ Advice on college processes?‚ and how

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    Judith Jamison

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    She left the Ailey company in 1980 to star in the Broadway musical hit Sophisticated Ladies. • She also began to choreograph dances‚ and the AAADT premiered her first work 1984. Her other works include Just Call Me Dance (1984)‚ Into the Life (1987)‚ Hymn (1993)‚ Sweet Release (1996) and Double Exposure (2000). • Jamison began choreographing her own works and started the Jamison Project in 1988. A year later‚ shortly after Ailey’s death‚ Jamison became artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance

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    Music/dance 101 Alvin Ailey American Dance Company Performed by Donna Wood Dance “Cry” Dance Critique. Ballet “Cry” simply showed to us real life of all African women. Every single American people know what kind of life they went through. Therefore it touched their heard. Alvin Ailey’s “Cry” presented wonderfully combined movements‚ technique and emotion. Ms. Donna Wood uses tragic face‚ a mask of sorrow. It is a face born to cry

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    Cunningham or Alvin Ailey was just breaking into the scene. You guys have it lucky. I learned a lot of Isadora Duncan and Martha. But even then just in today modern dance as taken on a new approach.” She kept talking and everything she said was just

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    President of Statistical Patient Input (SPI)‚ a non-profit research foundation. Physical therapist for Earl Mosely’s Institute of the Arts summer program in Kent‚ CT 2010 to present where she treated dancers from NY City Ballet‚ Philadelphia Ballet‚ Alvin Ailey School‚ Mont Clair‚ among

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    Nacho Duato

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    effective from January 2011. Contents  [hide]  1 Career 2 Choreographic works 3 Prizes and Awards 4 References 5 External links [edit]Career Nacho Duato studied at the Rambert School of London‚[1] Maurice Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City alongside professional ballet dancer Shaylee Keith. He started his dancing career in Stockholm ’s Cullberg Ballet[2] and one year later he joined‚ Nederlands Dans Theater‚[3] with artistic director Jiří Kilián

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    The art piece that I am analyzing is the dance “Takademe” by the Artistic Director of The Alvin Ailey Dance Theater‚ Robert Battle‚ who is known for his more modern dance styles. This dance features a very interesting musical piece in the background by Sheila Chandra called “Speaking in Tongues II”. It features her imitating these sort of clicking sounds as though she is speaking a different language. Before I dive into the dance movements‚ I would like to break down the music so that you can better

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    requirements of a sport. In the first place‚ the requirements of skill and competition in sports and dance are the same. There are drill teams or individuals that compete to show off their routine that they mastered to get a spot in companies like Alvin Ailey or category of battle. This connects to my claim because the competition

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    American Ballet Theatre: This theatre began in 1939 and was managed by Richard Pleasant. By 1939‚ former Hollywood agent‚ Richard Pleasant‚ came to New York to manage the company. By the summer of 1939‚ Pleasant and Chase developed big ideas to turn the company into a full-fledged ballet company and to base it on “a gallery of dance rather than the vision of a single choreographer" and a "living museum of

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