the surprisingly difficult sport of dance is commonly overlooked. Shanna LaFleur once said‚ “It takes an athlete to dance‚ but an artist to be a dancer.” Dance expresses strong feelings and emotions through graceful or sharp‚ powerful movement‚ revealing to the audience every bit of passion behind it. Countless forms of dance exist in the world. Jazz‚ ballet‚ and tap are the most common. When a person thinks of dance‚ they think of pink tights and tutus. Dance consists of so much more than that.
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looking to improve their skills‚ and engages in competition. The same can be said about football‚ basketball‚ and baseball players. People assume that dance is not as challenging or aggressive on the body as other sports. But I‚ as a dancer‚ can validate that it is just as hard and uses large groups of muscles to complete certain steps‚ or moves. Dance has potential to be classified as a sport by society‚ when all evidence and support is considered. The training of an athlete is vital in sports. This
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Dance Facilitation Essay Discuss the meanings of authoritarianism and anti-authoritarianism in practices of dance teaching. Make specific reference to examples from practice and from the literature. Discuss ways of working that might be appropriate to working with a group of GCSE students and prepare a lesson plan for a specific session with GCSE students. On an online dictionary the definition for authoritarianism is; "Characterized by or favoring absolute obedience to authority‚ as against
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2014 Clear Lake Dance Recital I could hear the bustle of people out in the crowd as I was getting ready for the dance recital. As I started to get ready for the first dance‚ someone came in and told us we were going to be starting in a few minutes. We all went and lined up at the foot of the stage because we were one of the first people to go on. “Your next‚” I heard from the people helping back stage. Right then I had to run through all of the steps to the dance in my head to make sure that I had
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Mahesh Dattani’s play ’’Dance Like a Man’’ opens with a young dancer‚ Lata‚ bringing her fiance‚ Viswas‚ home to meet her parents. Their hopes‚ and the family histories that emerge from their conversation‚ are quietly amusing‚ and the missteps and misunderstandings that trip up everyone when Lata’s parents return to the house are very funny. It is also somehow reassuring to know that families on the other side of the globe are as fractious and occasionally dysfunctional as our own. But be wary.
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Expression Carrie Noland Dance Research Journal‚ Volume 42‚ Number 1‚ Summer 2010‚ pp. 46-60 (Article) Published by University of Illinois Press DOI: 10.1353/drj.0.0063 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/drj/summary/v042/42.1.noland.html Access Provided by University of Manchester at 07/08/10 10:18PM GMT Photo 1. Merce Cunningham in his Sixteen Dances for Soloist and Company of Three (1952). Photographer: Gerda Peterich. 46 Dance Research Journal
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a good dancer in my opinion is one who dances for the luv of it. to be good at anything one has to understand and appreciate a thing deeply. a dancer must feel every beat and move to it. he/she must dance to the music like a wave dancing upon the sea. the two should be one. dance is a visible translation of music. a good dancer must realize dis. n most importantly‚ they should know that it’s not the mechanical perfection but the heart which matters in dance(: once u realize dis‚ confidence‚ rythm
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teach this one of a kind Spanish + Flamenco course. They take learning Spanish to the next level. These specialized schools teach how to dance the Flamenco as the students are also taught their Spanish lessons. With the flourishing development of flamenco music emerged the equally rapid evolution of flamenco dance‚ which first appeared recognizeably as a structured dance in the 18th century. While flamenco’s design in its origin revolves around the hearty voice of the singer‚ the impassioned flamenco
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In “To Save the Future‚ Live in the Present” article Wendell Berry Takes a strong position on the fact that no one knows the future and that no one can predict the future. Wendell states that we can only live in the moment to change the future. He is basically asking what is the best way to prepare for the future if you don’t know what is coming. He answers himself by saying that if you prepare for the morrow it “is a waste of time”(1). This shows that Berry is arguing that if you do right today
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artistic form of dance performed today‚ it includes a metal plate on the toe and heel of the shoe which makes tapping sounds. Tap has two historical links in Ireland and Africa. They were brought over to the United States through immigration and slavery. In mid 19th Century‚ Irish would ‘blackface’ and perform imitations of slaves as a form of comedy‚ mimicking shuffling and chugging movements. They started performing on stages which started the origin of tap. Tap started as a social dance‚ and developed
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