Being a senior in showchoir is a challenge! Many of the underclassmen look to you for advice or seek help when they need it. My leadership skills were also pushed last year and this year for “Dancing with the Teachers”, which is a show the showchoir puts on early in the school year. We are split into groups of about 6 or 7 out of the 40 or so members, and then we must select a teacher to be in each of our groups. We, being the seniors, then have to create a mix of songs and a dance to perform in this show.…
Ever since I was about 4 years old, I was dancing. I had been dancing competitively for about a year when the reality TV show Dance Moms aired. I remember constantly hearing different forms of the question; “Is it like dance moms?”, or “Is your teacher like Abby Lee?”. Of course I shot it down because I always thought that the show was a bad thing...partially because my mom never wanted me to watch it. But, now that I am looking at it in a different light, they are similar in some perspective.…
For the last two years, I have contributed to my Advanced Women’s Show Choir’s success as a performer and as a dance captain. My talent as a dancer and my ability to quickly learn choreography led to my selection as dance captain. This leadership role requires me to be a responsible person, a patient teacher and a supportive team member. Being a part of a nationally top-ranked show choir, I know the requirements of my role, and I was always thrilled to be selected as a dance captain during my junior and senior years. As dance captain, I schedule and lead dance sectionals, helping the girls review the choreography from previous rehearsals.…
Current competitors that provide specialized tutoring in dance arts include Greater York Dance and Sole Dance Academy. Great York Dance provides a large variety of dance programs for all levels for youth and adults that make convenient the dance center for people of all age that are interesting in dancing along with a flexible class schedule from Monday thru Saturday. One weakness that Great York Dance is experience is that the big number of negative customers reviews that the company is receiving a cause of a large number of students that are in each class session causing that the instructors are not dedicated enough time to each student. Sole Dance Academy has two different locations in York City allows customers from different areas of the…
Salsa dance got very popular in the mid-1970s in New York City, but its origins are from Cuba. Salsa is a mix of Danzon, which was brought by the French who fled from Haiti, Rhumbas of African and Son of the Cuban people. The name “salsa” or mixtures was characterized as a dance that started in New York, but there were others origins for the word. Some believe salsa dancing and music is a mixture of different styles just like salsa or “sauce” in Latin American countries is a mixture of different ingredients. Salsa dancing has expanded from earlier Cuban dancing to the Caribbean and the world.…
Barbara’s Conservatory of Dance is a ballet dance school that is located in Topeka, Kansas. The classes they offer include elementary ballet, intermediate ballet, advance ballet, pointe, pas de deux, tap, lyrical/contemporary, Broadway jazz, hip hop, modern, liturgical, and conditioning. They provide a graded system instruction. Barbara’s Conservatory of Dance conforms to the American Ballet Theatre National Training Curriculum.…
Dance Evaluation Late evening around 8.00 P.M. I entered the California Theater to participate the dance festival. It was my first time to see professional dance performance. The building was amazingly huge and luxury. It is completely different from my high school dance’s performance.…
British Dance: Influential Black Dancers Made an Impact on Britain “Like Britain itself, British dance has been informed by different waves of immigration”, says dance history professor Ramsay Burt (Roy). Ballet “took root” through a determined Polish woman, Marie Rambert, and Irishwoman, Ninette de Valois (Roy). Modern dance was arranged by exiles form Germany in the 1930s and visitors from America in the 1950s and 1960s (Roy). The stories and history of black British dancers however, tends to be left out of British dance history. His or her stories deserve to be told along with everyone else’s.…
The Homecoming parade, the highlight of homecomign. It's all fun being apart of the event but, what is it like preparing for the celebrated event? "It was really fun making the things for the float and being able to see it all set up." Maggie Mitchell said. She rode on the FCCLA 'Wizard of Oz'' float. "…
My annual hectic competitive dance showcase started this year as it always has, as a charged and passionate kickoff. That morning, I had been woken abruptly from my peacefully sound sleep by my deafening alarm clock. An obnoxious cry playing a song from the ‘Pitch Perfect’ soundtrack continued to sound until I was alert enough to lurch over and smash the stop button. I immediately made my bed and hopped into my warm-up outfit for the day. My mom had already been awake for some time and we we’re en route to the Milton Performing Arts Center, skipping my breakfast altogether, as this day had always rendered my appetite mute.…
Country Line Dancing is the American Cowboy Country line dancing is a form of dance in which groups of people no matter their size, age or gender dance in lines while executing the same movements. The costumes associated with this dance are of a western style. The idea of the “American Cowboy” is often paralleled with line dancing. The sex of the “American Cowboy” is male and has the gender identity relating to masculinity; this figure is often highly romanticized. Although this dance is acceptable for anyone to participate in it mirrors the ideas of American masculinity, mainly with a focus on cowboy characteristics.…
I walk into this medical room filled with people who can’t do the things you do during your daily routine: walking, recalling memories, or carrying on a normal conversation because of situations, all due to something they have experienced, makes me really nervous about what might happen in my life. I used to be able to go where I wanted to go, do what I wanted to do and, aside from small aches and pains, live a relatively “normal” life. However, the demon known as old age slowly crept into my life and took from me many of the abilities that I used to take for granted. After losing my husband to a sudden heart attack and I, myself, suffering a debilitating stroke, my children and I decided that moving into an assisted living facility would…
The formation of dance has lived on this world for many generations as we continue to pass through history. When I went to the wonderful performance at Pierce College I experienced a whole new perspective on dancing. The concert had many types of students performing mixed dance projects of all types like solos and duets. There was an average size of one to eight dancers per project which made it the ideal size for the concert. I really enjoyed the creativity and effort put into this performance.…
Ever since I was a little girl I have had a strong connection to ballet. When I was in elementary school my mom put me in ballet classes because she saw my connection to ballet. I loved ballet and I enjoyed learning the movements. Unfortunately, as I grew older I suffered from severe stage fright, so I stopped dancing.…
As a traditional dancer, we love to support our dance history and those traditional Kathak dance format represents the cultures strength, tradition and physical enthusiastic but today people are getting addict modern stylized dance. Those Kathak dancers are dying species and they are only 100-150 left today and they are part of our culture. They created our culture strong and valuable and we are losing those people day by day. It has a lot of reason behind that.…