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Dance began as a form of communication and storytelling. Thousands of years ago dancing served as a way for people to tell a story and helped distract themselves of the hardships they faced. Furthermore, dance was a form of storytelling through communication, which then turned into using storytelling through dance as entertainment. According to the History World, many dancers during the BC time danced in front of only a few people to get a story across. That later turned into hundreds of thousands of people as dance was used by many. Today, dance is also a form of entertainment and storytelling, but in a modern sense. However, today perfection and technique are stressed more than they were in the past. Yet, the passion for dance has not changed. Many dancers who share this passion also have many of the same qualities. Among a discourse community of trained dancers, one expects to find individuals who are healthy and active athletes, expect perfection from themselves through competition, and religiously attend dance performances.

Dance is a unique sport because it combines the grit and sweat of sporting events, such as track and field, with the style and extravagance of a fashion show (D.Fowler, 2000).

The male dancer only wore pants and bared his upper body. This simple costume design not only made the people who watch the dance to have a clear vision of the dancer, but also better presented a predicament that the character was experiencing at that time. At the first half of the dance, the dancer would leave at least one part of his body on the bench, and tried hard to reach other parts of his body away. This muscular interplay between the dancer and the bench resonated with the audience to experiencing the same struggle feelings as the character. As the performance developed, the dancer started to leave the bench to fully use the space. The dancer had many different movements comparing with sitting on the bench previously. He started to lie down, roll over, stand on the bench and make a turn use only one foot. The level of the dance was no longer limited in the middle but changing from low to high as well. Having such a change, the dancer is converting a more delight and energetic feeling to the audience, in order to demonstrated that the character was recovered through the

a) Many ask, “How can dance be a sport? You can't judge on time and the scoring is subjective!” Just like figure skaters, competitive dancers are judged on many criteria: technique, posture, timing, line, hold, poise, togetherness, expression, presentation, power, and foot or leg action. Dancers have a lot on their minds while performing. They are constantly asking themselves, am I extending correctly? Is my technique right? Is my head facing the right direction?

The space, time and usage of dynamics were powerful yet elegant-elements that added to the overall quality and tone of the work. The solo dancer used her body to perform various movements with specific ranges of motion, showing her ability to control, express and properly connect to the audience through her performance. In this performance, there seems to be a spiritual side when the dancer, Marilyn Banks, sits on the bench and starts to swing her arms in wide semi-circles to show looks of anguish and despair. Ms. Banks also varied movement by quivering her hands-movements such as a shaking or slight trembling with her hands when reaching outwards. She also used a lot of ornamentation or embellishment through her movements. Her body and her path of movement embellished her gestures since she was performing spins across the stage.

On Wednesday, November 18th, I had the pleasure to attend and watch the Dance Plus’s Fall show. The Dance Plus was performed at the Douglass Theatre, Victoria Mastrobuno Theater. When I entered the show the theatre seemed a little small for such big crowed. I immediately thought there would not be enough seats for all the audience, but somehow it fitted everyone. As everyone got settled down, the dance performance had started. I chose to write about the first performance that was choreographed by the amazing director, Jessica Lange her work was simply wonderful! I loved every little piece of the play. It put a smile on my face watching this amazing work of art. So with that said, I would now like to talk about the dance performance. There were

Dance is defined by Webster as “moving rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps”. However, it can also be used to sway an audience’s judgment or exhibit feelings and emotions that cannot be conveyed by the usage of verbal language. When watching a show, I would like to be able to get something out of it and with this it brought childhood memories and rung my old tomboy ways and made me realize not only is it okay to sometimes still have those tomboyish habits but also to see you don’t always have to be an adult and take everything in life seriously. During this performance two of my favorite pieces were 909 Lamentations and On the surface. I felt as if these were two of the strongest pieces throughout the whole performance.

Humans innate empathy will allow them see this tactile stimulation in dance as something indirectly happening to them in a performance. Positive space in dance speaks powerfully in this way, when the audience does not know what certain chosen reaction will be evoked in the touch. Positive space was utilized in lifting motions of the entire body and with the allusion of invisible strings attached to one performer's body, being pulled or connected to another. It was clearly defined in this piece that if the dancer who has the action put upon them complied, then this evoked one emotion, versus if they didn’t comply. For instance, if one dancer leaned into the other to be lifted, it spoke harmoniously, versus if they feel without control, or stiffly resisted the motion. Since bilateral tactile stimulation triggers this author's personal ASMR reactions, it is not completely unrelated to be set off by watching and empathetically reacting to such positive

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique they are great because of their

The Paramount Theatre Houston, Texas. A beautiful theatre with elegant architecture, and well-crafted sculptures, that provides a warm and inviting atmosphere. It has a convenient location with easy navigation in addition to spacious parking. Arriving at this appealing theatre helped set a positive tone about how the evening would go, which was nothing less than I had expected. I watched two performances in which I will be evaluating in this paper. The first one I will discuss is Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games. It is an Irish step dance that was choreographed by Michael Flatley and performed by the Riverdance Irish Dance Company. The second performance is an African dance choreographed by Etiene Cakpo, Kokou Gbakenou, and Jimu Makurumbandi called the African Journey. This dance was performed by Gan Sango Music and Dance.

The audience thinks only of her body while viewing the dancer. This is juxtaposed by the simile of her voice “like the sound of blended flutes” (3). The narrator does not see her as a sexual object, as the audience does, but notices her voice and its beauty. The narrator describes a “picnic day,” (4) juxtaposing the peace and freedom of nature to the chaos and repression of the nightclub the dancer is in.

Dancing is a form of visual expression through creative body and space movements as old as the ancient Romans. While it may seem easy to dance, it takes real effort to learn to perform a dance, and its success depends on the use of the five elements of dance. In viewing two dances from the TV series “So you Think you Can Dance”, I got a perspective of how judges would critique dances based on how their use of elements correlated with the type of dance style. I discovered that although I enjoy the open style of jazz dances, Sabra and Neil’s dance to “Sweet Dreams” left me some negative impressions on jazz dances. Instead, Neil and Kent’s dance to “How it Ends” impressed me with how the elements were used to change the face of contemporary art

The interests of the theatrical criticism should involve telling the arts done by dancers, communicating their message, and appraising their arts. The fundamental components of the art of dance are based on the operations that the critic can perform. Some of them include the description of the dance, the feeling, interpretation of the message, as well as the contextual explanation of the dance. The transit space is one of the arts through dance that explores various themes that captures modes of culture in powerful ways. Tuesday, January 27, 2015 on the Eisenhower Auditorium I enjoyed watching Diavolo performance. This paper presents the dance performance critique of the transit space after the Diavolo concert. The paper also presents an analysis

Ever wondered what it would be like to leap through life, twirl right through, as if the world has completely stopped around you? To be able to pause everything in a silence that allows you to hear your own heartbeat? The silence on stage as you perform is a sense of peace within your inner body that is being channeled through a movement of effortless motion. In European history, dance was considered to be a way of celebration for many cultures. Although it was said that dance did require physical agility, dancers were never considered athletes because the movement was not taken seriously. Dance did not become popular in a more skillful way until later on. The debate of dance as a sport is very

When it comes to contextual analysis and dance history, we can see how dance connects emotions, stories, and new movement creations together. I feel that these aspects are a key concept to understand within this course. This is needed in order to understand how dance is performed and connected. For example, when we view a dance, we can see how the dancers body language emphasize the movements being shown. Also, we can see elements from other dance forms  within other styles of dance. For example, within modern dance, we can see similar foot positions and circular arm structures similar to the style of ballet. Modern dancers take these aspects of ballet by molding them into an emotional story or piece to emphasize a common theme. Through using