B. R. Copeland's Way To Dance

Accomplishments Misty Copeland was the first African-American principal ballerina at the American theatre. Why I look up to Misty Copeland.

Alyssa was born on September 19th of 1998 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in a loving home. She started to take dance classes at age two and continued with the New Vision Dance Company for twelve years before she retired due to orthopedic injuries to her ankle and knees.

Have you ever thought what it would be like to be dancing up on your toes with the American Ballet theatre (ABT)? That’s just what happened, Misty Copeland currently a principal dancer at ABT had a dream to dance there ever since she started to dance and she didn't think that she could do it,but with training, hard work, and passion you can achieve anything. For the month of September I decided to read “Life in Motion” written by Misty Copeland. This book was very inspiring in many ways. I learned so much that I didn’t know, not only about Misty Copeland but also about ballet. I decided to read this book because, Misty Copeland is one of my idols, she is also a big inspiration and I really wanted to learn more about her. Overall this book was amazing. I would recommend it to  not only ballet dancers but to also people who love non-fiction because it is full of so many details and a lot of imagery that it makes a person feel like they are in her shoes dancing through her life. I would recommend this book because many people can relate to Misty Copeland in many ways, your mind wanders while reading, and because the plot was very unbelievable and surprising.

Her studies in performance art dates back to 1979. At the age of seven she began with Ballet, then segwayed into Jazz and Hip Hop until she discovered Afro-Haitian Dance. As a student of Berkley High School she was trained in this dance style by Master Anisa Rasheed, a member of the well known Bay Area Dimensions Dance Theater. Joan also sang in the schools mixed chorus as a first and second soprano.

After his return from the war, she continued teaching and danced small roles in Shawn's productions. This is where her career as a dancer began (183).

Katherine Dunham was born June 22, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois (“Katherine Dunham Biography” 1). After her mother’s unexpected death four years after her birth, Dunham would be sent to live with her aunt who would give Dunham her first exposure to music and dance (“Katherine Dunham” Contemporary Black 2). Although she had loved

Marti Jackson was a dancer when she was my age in California from 1976-1989. When she told me she went to the super bowl, that got me intrigued to ask her why she danced. Marti was a dancer from when she was five years old until she graduated high school. Marti went to Los Alamitos HIgh School. The dance classes Marti took was Ballet, tap, and jazz. Marti loved dancing and she wished she could do it again. Marti started pointe when she was in the fourth grade. Her favorite dance class was tap. She misses dancing and she wishes that she can dance again. Marti performed at a dodgers games when she was 9 or 10 years old. Marti took a bus to her dance practice and when it was the end of the season they had a dance recital. She she went to everyone of her dance studios recitals because she was in the special dance group.

It’s a year later and Leah loves ballet. She’s even trying to get some dance classes at her school. All of her football friends took some classes of ballet and loved it as much as Leah so now they’re in ballet too! Leah overall learned how the knowledge that her mom had versus her ignorance that knowledge is always going to win over

Steppin’ Out – The Studio is a dance school that is located in Lee's Summit, Missouri. This dance school was established in 1989. The dance classes they teach include ballet, tap, jazz, musical theatre, hip-hop, acrobatics, modern, lyrical, and contemporary. Steppin’ Out – The Studio is an award-winning competition team. They are the top competition team of the Lee’s Summit. Steppin’ Out Dance Company has won the highest scores in the most difficult divisions.

What people don’t know about our society today is that African Americas have created most of the dances we do today. As a society, we have been inspired by the native African dances because they poured their souls into the dances which all had meaning. From what I’ve noticed African Americans and dance are a pair because it brings out the rhythm and joy in folks. The musical culture is very strong and over the last few years has become stronger.

New Jersey Public Schools today are so focused on preparing students for college that they are failing to prepare students for life. If one were to read through the ‘Middletown Township Public Schools High School Course Selection Guide 2016-2017’ they would see that Middletown High School North offers classes such as Effective Oral Communication, College and Career planning, Child Development, and Culinary Arts. One thing is missing: Shop Class. Middletown Township High Schools can teach us how to cook, speak in front of a large audience, prepare for college, and take care of children but they do not teach us how to do simple home repairs or even provide us with access to learning about the ‘Blue Collar’ field. The only way students will learn

Should killers live to take another life? If we let the felons live, what will stop them from getting that rush or thrill of murder again? It is important that we take murderers off this planet for the safety of future generations to come. This is where the death penalty comes into place. What type of feelings would you encounter knowing your children were in danger on a daily basis? We are capable of putting certain people away for our safety. The death penalty may be expensive, but it should stand nationwide on the grounds that it lowers crime rates and it is justified.

Brian Friel and Colette Bryce, convey the impacts that Ireland had on their upbringing, challenging such traditional perspectives with the ambition in attaining physical and psychological liberation by breaking free from such political and social views. Brian Friel’s play Dancing at Lughnasa, a two act memory play published in 1990, presents a reflection of memories of Michael Mundy’s Summer in 1936, conveying the isolation and struggles endured by the Mundy sisters. The Full Indian Rope Trick, a collection of contemporary poems published in 2005, portrays Bryce’s views on the Irish social and political debates including the Troubles; alongside the political and nationalistic conflict in Ireland at the time; reflecting her life throughout her

Duncan adamantly rejected ballet; she saw it as a form of dance that was rigid and unexpressive. The foundation of ballet consists of five still poses, but Duncan believed that in dance, the dancers body should be a "luminous fluid…a luminous moving cloud" (Duncan 51). She did not think that dance should be comprised of a string of still positions. This was what ballet was to her: rigid, still, unnatural. There was too much focus on technique in ballet. Duncan felt that dance was more than technique; it was about emotions, discovering the soul, and using those powers to compel movement. She saw a strong connection between dance and spirit, and this connection had been lost in ballet (Terry 31).

Great American novelist Ernest Hemingway lived a life of grand adventure and diverse experiences. It was from these exploits that Hemingway used to write his great literary works as evident in a letter to fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald “Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.” (Hays 34) Hemingway was hurt greatly by injustice and thus started to write the way he did. In order to fully comprehend Hemingway’s works, one must know the writer, look into some of his key literary works