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    comfortable because of their skin tone or their race or religion which that shouldn’t matter because school is to get our education . Like in the huffington article it quotes “or when my high school boyfriend’s parents told him he had to stop dating me. (Alvin Ailey)Parents are so used to how life was back then that they want their kids to grow up the same ‚ time has changed but there still those parents that tell their kids stick to your own kind and that’s what they do and that’s how racism increases with

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    I believe that the way I choreographed my dance‚ and what story I chose was empowering. I feel that I bring life to the audience and get them intrigued. The audience hopefully understands the message that I’m trying to send. Not only was this theme empowering to the audience‚ but it was also emporering to me. I learned about determination and fighting. I know it sounds cliche‚ but this lesson is a lesson that I feel needs to be learned by everyone. It can help the world succeed. I’m so glad that

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    dance live. Selected Answer: False Question 12 2 out of 2 points All choreographers create dances with a theme or storyline. Selected Answer: False Question 13 2 out of 2 points Alvin Ailey created _____________‚ one of the most well-known modern dances. Selected Answer: Revelations

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    Modern Dance started in the 20th century in Germany and the United states as a way to rebel against rigid formalism‚ artifice‚ and superficiality from ballet. Modern dance resembled modern art and music being experimental. Pioneers of Modern dance like “Isadora Duncan‚ Loie Fuller‚ and Ruth St. Denis in the United States‚ Rudolf von Landon and Mary Wigman in Germany” they all wanted to create an awareness to their audiences of inner and outer realities. Isadora Duncan started “free dance” where

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    Alvin Ailey once said “One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.”. The book is told through the perspective of Scout‚ who is a child‚ and how the racism in her community affects her and her family. In the time To Kill a Mockingbird takes place‚ numerous people believed that if you were black you shouldn’t have the same rights as white people. This was a horrible time for people of color because they were discriminated as it shows in the book with Tom Robinson’s case. The

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    and White ballets‚ all choreographed by Kylian. Petite Mort was filmed for the first time in 1996 and is still being performed in theatres all over the world today. The lastest being in America by the American Dance theatre under the guidance of Alvin Ailey. The piece starts of with male dancers playing around with fencing gear‚ as the women remain silent standing in the shadows upstage. The piece then continues with women gliding onto stage with sculpture like black gowns that they push around

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    Born June 22‚ 1909‚ in Glen Ellyn‚ Illinois‚ near Chicago‚ Dunham enjoyed the security of a middle-class suburban existence for the first four years of her life. Her father‚ Albert Millard Dunham‚ was a tailor who had his own business in Chicago. Her mother‚ Fanny June Guillaume Taylor‚ who was twenty years older than her husband‚ was an assistant principal at a city school. Dunham’s life changed drastically though‚ in 1914‚ when her mother became seriously ill and died‚ leaving Albert to raise Katherine

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    “One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.” This quote was said by Alvin Ailey and it meant how racism can really affect young ones. Kids don’t know any better and they are learning each and every day. It takes a while for a kid to understand right from wrong. When you’re being racist towards a young one it makes them confused because they start to question things about themselves that they had never thought of before. No little kid should have to go through this at a

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    you don’t know much about dance but has something special that makes the examiners look at him all the time. From this criticism Duato was able to move forward and joined Bejart’s Mudra School in Brussles and also had the opportunity to study at Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre in New York (pre 1980). Then in 1980 joining Cullberg Ballet in Stockholm Netherlands Dance Theatre. Through his history of training from 1975 you can see each individual element including movement‚ spatial

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    Kara Francois 13 April 2012 Marguerite Annie Johnson was born in St. Louis‚ Missouri on 4th of April in 1928. Maya Angelou is a nickname that was given to her as a young child from her brother Bailey. He called her "Maya" instead of "my sister.” At the age of three Ms. Angelou’s parents divorced. Her and her brother Bailey was sent to a Stamps‚ Arkansas to live with their grandmother. While living in Stamps‚ as a young girl she experienced racial discrimination. During the time Maya Angelou

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