Ballroom dance

I’ve always enjoyed the rush of performing. The stare of thousands of eyes on you, the music ringing loudly in your ears. Sometimes, though, it’s too much. My whole life is a performance, always pushing me to be perfect in the suddenity of the moment. Don’t be fooled however, it’s a horrible show I always put on. When I was three years old, I was bouncing off the walls, digging in pots, being the problematic child. The only things that calmed me were singing and generally being worn out. That…

Jazz is comprised of many different elements of dance, like African, concert, ballroom and street dance. Jazz became a melting pot and people have strayed from jazz in exchange for new types of dance. In my opinion, that is why jazz does not get the respect it deserves sometimes in comparison to other dances. I believe, however, that people should respect the roots where most modern day dances came from, jazz. Although jazz is more of a tradition dance, people can still learn a bunch of…

Shut Up and Dance At the age of three, I walked on stage to perform my very first dance recital. Little did my parents know that I wasn’t there to dance but to fluff up the tutus of my fellow dancers. I was very concerned with the beauty of myself and my classmates. That’s why I made sure to help them look their prettiest. That was my main concern as a young child but as time as gone on, I have grown up. I now care about more things then my dance class or team being pretty. I care about my…

The way this dance was, you had to enter the ballroom floor with a specific way of stepping to the beat using your heels, but also like ice skating in a way. Dancing wasn’t as easy as it is now, well for some people. Some other types of dances were Jigs and reels, which as I mentioned before enslaved people and lower class white people would use these methods of dancing, but so did the Virginians. When you would dance “Jigs” it required to only dance with one person and partner, for the “Reels”…

Hip-hop dancing has been my solid ground where I stood over the course of eight years. As I grow, I want to start learning how I can transcend my skills and discover something new. As part of my research, I want to develop the idea of what type of dance I should newly put my attention towards where it will expand my horizons and further help the skills I have this present. Since I was young, I have had the passion of dancing. I’ve had this strucken…

Unknown to many people, the dance of the tango had extremely humble beginnings in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Several theories exist concerning how the tango evolved into the sensual, romantic dance that people currently know and love. One theory states that some of the tango's unusual movements originated among the gauchos of Buenos Aires, who wore their smelly, hardened chaps into the city's congested nightclubs. As the story goes, when a gaucho began dancing with a girl, she placed…

said that “The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing”. Personally I think that swing dance is one of the most fun forms of dancing. While learning this unit my two favorite dance forms were- West Coast Swing and the Lindy Hop. Both the dance forms are successfully able to combine elegance with speed and more of a jazzy rhythm. West coast swing happens to be the state dance of California.Some sources say that the west coast swing has roots in the Lindy Hop. The first ever…

Two well-known dances associated with Puerto Rico and Cuban culture are Mambo and Salsa. These dances are known for their rhythmic music, intricate timing, and both made it to the United States’ culture. Although the two dances share some similar characteristics, there are prominent differences as well. Mambo was a popular dance found in the Palladium Ballroom in New York City during the 1950s. The dance incorporated African influences such as the use of polyrhythm in the hips and pelvis…

For centuries, song and dance have been a vital part in creating and expressing a community’s sense of identity. Through each, members are able to pass on traditions, make political statements, and express themselves. The tango and salsa styles of music and dance are prime examples of mobilities in Latin American music that help foster a sense of identity among the smaller communities, although each required international attention before earning recognition from its home country. Each style of…

Dance Service or Volunteer Work: • Performed at Music Dance and Fine Arts promotional event at MIT, Manipal • Performed at Deloitte DAS Annual General Meeting How do you plan to use your dance skills and knowledge when you leave NC State? I come from a place where people are very enthusiastic about dancing. There is a time in a year when almost everyone will go out dancing for straight nine days and will stay up until 4 am doing that without skipping work or school the next day. So, they…