It’s an artistic medium in which the human body is used to express visually. There are many genres of dance, just like how there’s horror and romantic genres in music or film. Each dance genre can correspond to a period of time, gender, religion or musical tune. Within dance we have multiple occupations and purposes. Everything and everyone experiences different levels and variety of dances; even our eyes “dance” as we read words on the covers of magazines.
There are many factors that determine your knowledge and likeness of dance. Maybe when you were just a toddler, your parents presented you with a television, where you randomly saw someone move to a song that correlated to the show that was about to come on. In that second you immediately …show more content…
At the age of four, dancing was something my body did on its own and, there was not that much mental effort being put in to do it. I recall turning five or so, when I finally recognized dance as something concrete. It was Barbie in the Nutcracker; a movie based on the classical Russian compositions and original ballet of The Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me into the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my love for the arts because there was dance, music, the clothes we would wear (class attire and performance attire), and the posters that accompanied the shows we were presenting that semester. I remember there being this bin where there were all these shoes of all types. These shoes were pairs that no longer fit the owner, and I thought to myself how blessed I was because I didn’t have to buy shoes all the time. The thing was that if you took a pair of shoes from the bin, you would have to exchange them for a pair of your own shoes that didn’t fit you. Now that I look back, that helped so much financially because I was constantly growing and breaking in my …show more content…
At first I was going to have to make a choice between clarinet and voice. I asked whether it would be possible to still be part of a dance and violin ensemble because I didn’t want to lose skills I had already worked so hard to do. Happily, my counselor provided information and the audition requirements for the Dept. of Comparative Arts. Comparative Arts was the newest department, the others being music, writing, theater and theater production/design, visual arts and dance. Comparative arts was where any artist can go and study multiple disciplines and combine the art forms in an annual project. I took classes of all types, only to realize that I was just doing focused parts of a ballet (ex. Sewing class that was called fibers). In Interlochen I didn’t play much of my instrument because I began composing more
There are many factors that determine your knowledge and likeness of dance. Maybe when you were just a toddler, your parents presented you with a television, where you randomly saw someone move to a song that correlated to the show that was about to come on. In that second you immediately …show more content…
At the age of four, dancing was something my body did on its own and, there was not that much mental effort being put in to do it. I recall turning five or so, when I finally recognized dance as something concrete. It was Barbie in the Nutcracker; a movie based on the classical Russian compositions and original ballet of The Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me into the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my love for the arts because there was dance, music, the clothes we would wear (class attire and performance attire), and the posters that accompanied the shows we were presenting that semester. I remember there being this bin where there were all these shoes of all types. These shoes were pairs that no longer fit the owner, and I thought to myself how blessed I was because I didn’t have to buy shoes all the time. The thing was that if you took a pair of shoes from the bin, you would have to exchange them for a pair of your own shoes that didn’t fit you. Now that I look back, that helped so much financially because I was constantly growing and breaking in my …show more content…
At first I was going to have to make a choice between clarinet and voice. I asked whether it would be possible to still be part of a dance and violin ensemble because I didn’t want to lose skills I had already worked so hard to do. Happily, my counselor provided information and the audition requirements for the Dept. of Comparative Arts. Comparative Arts was the newest department, the others being music, writing, theater and theater production/design, visual arts and dance. Comparative arts was where any artist can go and study multiple disciplines and combine the art forms in an annual project. I took classes of all types, only to realize that I was just doing focused parts of a ballet (ex. Sewing class that was called fibers). In Interlochen I didn’t play much of my instrument because I began composing more