Dance Class Analysis

Similar to math classes, dance has fundamentals that a dancer builds upon as they continue their dance career. Ballet, one of the classes I assist in, is the foundation of all types of dance. As an Assistant Dance Teacher, I aid the girls with their ballet technique. For instance, strong arms are important because if you have powerless arms you won't be able to do multiple pirouettes (turns). Jada, a student in my ballet class had her arms too close to her chest. After the exercise at the ballet barre, I went over and taught her the correct arm position. Another reason being a dance teacher is important to me is because I am also improving my technique as a dancer along with my students. Since I am a more experienced dancer, I am required to have the correct technique to model for the students. If I show an exercise incorrectly the girls will mimic my incorrect technique and create an unacceptable habit. Another reason I relish assistant teaching is being able to coach the girls and observe the girls grow confident in their dancing. By mentoring the girls I to get to know them on a more personal level and help them grow as young ladies. One of my favorite things as a teacher is to see the perseverance and enthusiasm the students have for

I learned a lot of things that lead me to who I am today, and yes maybe I am not the best girl in the world, maybe I am not the kindest, or the prettiest, but I am who I am and if people are not okay with that then I don’t need those people in my life. People who don’t dance just see dance as it is. Steps, and more steps. Us, dancers see the movements of the dance and go deeper into their story. To us, each little movement we make means something and as the audience is looking at us and seeing our pain and or happiness, they see the story we are telling behind the movements and the music. I can say I learned how to be someone that anyone can trust, someone who is there for you no matter the situation. I learned how to overcome my worst fears, and learned that is okay to fail. What’s not okay is to be a shadow when the light is in the stage pointing at you. To shut yourself down, and not accomplish what you

The dance that I will be focusing on is entitled: thinking sensing standing feeling object of attention. The dance, to me, symbolizes the socialization of persons in Western civilization concerning gender roles. In the beginning there are gestures that are separated from emotion and full-embodiment, but as the dance progresses the gestures become more meaningful and recognizable. The lighting starts out very specific and narrow, then the light encompasses the entire stage, and eventually the dancers are silhouetted as they return to a familiar movement motif in the end. The music is mainly instrumental with occasional soft female vocals, and the lyrics suggest emotion, which is interesting because the dancers do not convey emotion until

The combination of my past experiences and quick thinking allowed me to become successful in my first year of instructing dance. Prior to employment, I had no formal training in instructing a dance class. My first class was filled with fifteen student who were between the ages of eight and ten. I was excited to finally teach a class, but I did not know what

Consequently, because of the Chance to Dance Program, teachers have been trained in dance, students and

A relaxed and enjoyable evening, students are able to dance with a fellow student or invite a friend from out of school as they show off their ballroom dancing skills. Karen Feldman’s expertise is invaluable as our students learn something new and have a night for themselves. Today our MPC is used as a venue for off-site dance lessons for people of all ages, and many years ago the school even offered dancing lessons. In fact, chances are there are some members of the school community who remember being taught the fine art of ballroom dance under the watchful eye of John

Thanks to this dance I feel more of a connection when I dance with my family and I am more confident and It makes me dance a lot more than I used to. Dancing is huge in my family it makes us (in my opinion) more connected being able to laugh and spend time together just makes a difference. I have a big family +100 cousins and I always feel like I'm close to every single on them because of dancing. This class gave me a better understanding of why my family dances it really gives a connection to everyone who is dancing. Also I think everyone should take a dance class regardless if they need it for their major, I being a chemical engineering student still think it is very relevant to take this class because I think it helps broaden who you interact with

The beginning of class was a bit challenging because it has been so long since I have actually practiced dance and stretched. The workout and warm up for the first two weeks kept my body in great shape capable of feeling relaxed and muscles moving. The warm up made the dances a bit easier to actually keep up, but still was a challenge. The way the stretches are handled are great because it is a new routine my body has not gone through. It is quiet the challenge because my left leg is stronger than my right, but I push through to have the equal exposure.

For these past two years in high school, I have been taking Cleo Mack’s dance program that is provided for us at MCVTS. Starting the program freshman year I did not know what to expect at all but I am glad my mom pushed me to come to this school. I have been dancing since I was three at a competition studio who is very strict about almost everything especially performance quality, but as I have learned from Ms. Mack it’s good to tone down the face and make your dancing more authentic and real.

I have danced for the past 9 years and have and still love every minute of it. For how much i have learned over the past 9 years i have also learned a lot in this class. So far my favorite has been the hip hop combo that my group did. It has been my favorite because I really liked the music, choreography and style: and I don’t really enjoy hip hop that much so I was surprised that I really enjoyed that combo. I also like the 3 days of fitness, because it motivated me in so way to try my best and I feel that I improved the workouts that we did over the 3 days. The bones and muscles were cool to learn about because I think that it is important to know which muscle/bone is where and if you get injured you have a better idea of what you injured

Mr. Dulane brings something to the students that they had never thought they could do, or that they wanted to know how to do. He initially gets students involved by allowing them to choice to listen to the extremely loud music or to dance, not by forcing them to take part. Of course, all but one student choose to dance instead of listening to the music. He starts rough but the students think that this style of dancing is just not cool. He decides that they only way to show the students just want this type of dancing is, would be to bring in one of his studio students to dance with. This got all the students ready to dance. He was able to demonstrate just how amazing dance could be. He encouraged the students, positively motivated them, and stressed that they should work as a team to dance together. The students began to take pride in their dancing and they created music that they felt was more relevant to their time to dance to as well. This showed pride and ownership in their dancing. Mr. Dulane explained it perfectly that dance, for these students, was teaching them to trust, respect, and care about oneself and others as well. He showed that he cared about the students by showing up, fighting for them, and also in paying for their way to partake in the competition. He truly cared and it shows din his efforts to reach the students on their level, make something relevant to them, and in giving the students

It’s really cool to just try the moves we learn in class with different people. I would get really nervous when I dance with someone that’s better than me because I would be scared to mess up, but eventually I got the hang of it. I regret not dancing with the more skilled girls because I would probably have learned a lot from them. It did feel a little discouraging towards the end because no one else was dancing except the more advanced people. So all I could do was observe them and admire how graceful all of them looked.

What did you learn? As a result of Workshop #2, I have very high respect for the ballet profession and the dancers who perform the complicated routine night after night. In order to become a successful ballet dancer you must have an extremely strong core and a great deal of flexibility to transition from one movement to the next gracefully.

This week Grace and I taught one day and during our time teaching I had a great time. We tried the dances this week and personally I liked the dancing better than the other warm ups we have done. I feel with the dancing everyone gets more involved and they just be themselves because everyone is dancing and just having fun. I think this week stuck out the most to me so far out of all of the weeks becuase Grace, Bailey, Ella, and I went around the stations together and while we were going around Grace and I were just having fun and hanging out. But what really stuck out and meant alot to me was when Joanne came and told me that I was doing a good job with Ella, it was just a little thing that really stuck out to me.

I have always observed and admire the way my daughter’s dance class instructor maintain a relationship with all the dancers. She is fully aware of how each child operate and therefore runs the class in such a way to avoid disruptions and distractions. For example separating the talkative friends from each other without making it seem like a consequence. She may say something like “I like the way how you move your arms so gracefully so I want you to stand over here where everybody can see you”. It is somewhat funny to see how the talkative child immediately transforms as they try to perform at their fullest potential because they are now trying to set a good example for the rest of the class.