A Dancer Who Inspires: Bill “Bojangles” Robinson “Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.” Carlos Ghosn This quote by Carlos Ghosn‚ a Brazilian-Lebanese-French businessman‚ perfectly describes the dance legend who coined the term “copacetic”‚ meaning in excellent order (Haskins 1990: 54). A big reason many look up to this dancer is because he was fully dedicated to his art form and hence a source of inspiration. Bill
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Beauty “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” by Alice Walker is an essay describing her personal experience with what beauty truly is. Alice Walker is an African American writer who has won many awards for her writing. A few of these awards include a Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award. In her autobiographical story “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self‚” she tells us the story of how she tragically lost and then finally regained her self-esteem after much agony. She tells a personal
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“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self” Topic #2 I believe that Alice Walker chose those specific incidents from her childhood to show how she thought of herself and her beauty before the incident with the BB gun. It gives the reader a better understanding of how the incident would negatively affect Walker because of how much she valued being pretty. It also helps to show how much her personality dramatically changed after she had her beauty stripped away by the BB gun. When Walker was Two-and-a-half
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Crossing boundaries is pushing yourself past the limits. There are many people that cross various boundaries‚ whether it is a physical boundary‚ cultural boundary or a mental boundary. This is seen in the prescribed text‚ the film ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ directed by Bruce Beresford. In this we see not only the main character Li cross boundaries but also‚ the minor characters‚ Ben and Teacher Chang. Crossing boundaries also heard in the Song ‘Love Story’ by Taylor swift. This song relates back to the
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used in art‚ and the ways it has changed between 1936 and 2012. I have chosen to look at Henri Matisse and Marc Hagan-Guirey and how they have both used paper. Matisse created a series of work simply entitled Paper Cuts and I am going to look at Two Dancers or in French Figure de ballet avec deux danseurs (See Figure 1). He created this paper cut in 1936. I’ve chosen to compare Matisse’s work with Marc Hagan-Guirey’s Horrogami series‚ whilst looking more in depth at The Addams Family Mansion (See Figure
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Misty joined the American Ballet Theater studio company‚ Then in 2007 she became one of the youngest American Ballet Theater dancers to be promoted to a soloist and on June 30th 2015 Misty Copeland became the first african american female principal dancer in the american ballet theatre’s 75 year history. Misty is my inspiration and I know that being a professional dancer would be a lot of hard work and a lot of long hours but I don’t think of dancing as a job‚ because when I think of a job I think
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Betty Marie Tallchief was a good dancer. She was Native American. She came from an Osage. Betty Marie Tallchief was born in 1925. She spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. When she was four she took her first ballet lesson. Ballet broke her out of her shell. This section of the story tells how she became to love ballet. She became a star in her hometown. She performed her ballet skills at county fairs and other places. She was natural good at ballet. Her being
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ballet dancer must be at the peak of their physical fitness and have impressive technical capabilities. However‚ all of that means nothing if the dancer has no artistry. A professional ballet dancer must be able to tell a story and convey a character‚ allowing themselves to be emotionally vulnerable on stage‚ in front of an audience. The objective of a dancer is to tell the story with their body and their characterization‚ taking the audience members on a journey with them. A ballet dancer wants
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“Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self’ focuses around Alice Walker who did not feel beautiful most of her life because of a flaw she had. When she was complimented or told she was beautiful‚ she refused to believe it. But was the reason why Alice did not feel beautiful was because of her flaw‚ or because females are expected to look perfect? Would she have felt better about herself if she would have been a male? Alice Walker judged herself so harshly because she was a female‚ not a male‚ and
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does it really mean to be a dancer? Anna Pavlova‚ Misty Copeland and Mikhail Fokin are just prominent examples of real dancers. For decades the only way to become a professional dancer was to be a ballerina and stand in a corps de ballet. Also taking the alternate route to do the impossible and be a principal dancer‚ which is better known as a prima ballerina. However in today’s society more jobs have been recently presented for dancers such as being a commercial dancer. The dance world is opening
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