Dancers At West Side Dance Studio

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.

Body language can say a great deal more than the words we use. There are three main types of body language that you need to think about as part of your speaking and listening skills - eye contact, body position and gesture and movement.

Jane Desmond introduces her article, “Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies,” by describing a dance that readers can picture as the dance of tango in their minds. This helps lead to her connecting dance, or body movement, with cultural studies and social identities. In her article, Desmond focuses on connecting how dance and body movement can be portrayed differently in social identities, such as race, class, gender, nationality, and sexuality.

On April 14, 2017, my friend and I visited for the first time Salt Lake City Community College dance company’s annual performance. The show was presented at the Grand Theater at the South City Campus of the college. The performance’s name “Moving Words” imply what the audience was about to experience. “Moving Words” consists of 18 different dances and each of those dances brought a unique feeling to the overall performance. I thought that the dancers and choreographers have done an amazing job. However, after seeing all the different dances there were two that stuck together with me, because of the ideas and the morals these dances introduced.

Miller Street Dance Academy is a dance school that is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This dance school was established in 1994. Miller Street Dance Academy teaches ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, pointe, tumbling, acro, cheer dance, and more. They are award winning and they provide expert instruction. Miller Street Dance Academy is certified by the Dance Masters of America.

Reading this article was very enlighten and intriguing. The South Bay Union School District implemented a dance program for their school district (Reichert-Montiel, 2015). The school district is in Imperial, California, with a student enrollment of fifty percent English Language Learners and Seventy-five percent that has qualified for free or reduced-price lunches.

Many people are under the false impression that dance is just a hobby that requires very little effort. As a dancer myself, this is something I completely disagree with, as well as the members of the YWCA School of Dance that I had the pleasure of interviewing. There is more to dance than what meets the eye. As a previous member of this studio, I was fortunate enough to observe this community in action making note of the literacy practices they use within the different classes. This experience guided my introductory research, which was to identify and eliminate any stereotypes associated with dance.

Throughout all forms of art there are several ways to portray a message to an audience, whether it be through a painting about the meat industry or a song about an unjust legal system, expression can take on many different forms. No matter what the message or motivations of the piece, it is up to the artist how they want it portrayed. Dance is no exception to this rule, in today's world dance is one of the most popular ways to spread a message. From flash mobs to protest art dance is one of the most visible forms of expression people recognize today and these pieces of art are always evolving and changing to fit the wants and needs of the artist.

This genre of dance created mixed feelings among conservative members of society and although MSNBC’s Mike Brzeznski calls it “disgusting” and “pathetic” (USA Today, 2013) there is a time and a place when the dance should not take place because of it provocative style. Women are using the dance to get in shape and stay in shape, including it in their exercise regime. Regardless of the negative critiques it receives, it is a different way to express sexual feelings for one of the opposite gender when performing, which is no different than lovemaking choreographed into a piece of a contemporary dance scene and a dance that is protected in the USA through freedom of expression the “very heart of our democracy”

The group that I have chosen to identify with is the Franklin and Marshall Dance Company. The company is comprised of over 50 dancers and is supervised by three authoritative professors. Each fall, new choreographers are recruited by the company to each their choreographies, or reconstruction works of other choreographers, in the Fall Dance Concert. Each spring, the students have the opportunity to choreograph their own pieces for the Spring Dance Concert. These student choreographed pieces either presented in the concert, which runs for three days, or in the Show case, held only on a Sunday. During the spring choreography, each choreographer contends with the corresponding choreographers to secure a spot in the concert, which galvanizes competition, hostility, and tension. Conclusively, however, akin to any other campus organization, we, the members of the company, share solidarity with each other with regards to certain ideas and acceptable behaviors.

The notebook details out lessons allowing the instructors the ability to properly train their students. Because the teachers have already planned out the class, as soon as the students enter the room the class can begin, ensuring that there is no hesitation by the teachers. This piece of text is also essential for ensuring that the students are getting taught properly as they are checked by the owner herself. She is able to correct any plans the teachers have set and also tell the teachers if they need to challenge the students more or if are challenging them too much. This analysis is useful in determining how the face-to-face communication between teachers and students within the dance studio differs to that of the social media platforms which they use. Looking at my community as an activity system allows me to identify how the tools, like the notebooks and the Facebook page, are able to influence their motives. Kain and Wardle’s activity theory allows me to focus on how the different parts of the dance studio relate to one another and help the studio function. The notebook I collected is an essential tool and influences the communication that occurs in the class

The students from the NY dance Institute gained knowledge about different aspects around the world.It expose them to new Ideas about cultural exchanges.They learned how to work together and how to have respect for one another,and about timing and spacing,and learned to express their feelings from the practices,and rehearsals,and how to express their self,and tell a story while they danced. From the video The power of dance I learned something new about the dance style Ballet.Ballet expresses an atmosphere of strength,and grace;ballet allows the dancer to express feelings throughout dancing.Ballet has been russia center of classical dance,and originated In Italty.The dance style Bhangra Is a spiritually and spiritual dance.the dance Is danced

The state holds great power in media and its expression. Modern dance in America was developed as a separate identity from colonial European heritage. Much like other aspects of society, dance was also revolutionizing itself from the rest of the world by forming new techniques and training the body to encompass all. It is interesting to see how the state, even though it’s not present in classrooms directly, is indirectly present through the teachers and their method of teachings. The history of the technique and its teacher has a different authority from students learning on their own accords. By being part of the institution dancers are able to shape their body to the next technique or routine required of them, it’s not a freedom of expression

Dance is a universal language that allows the people to connect through communication by using their body and music. It’s also a form of expressing strong emotions and expressions through one’s storytelling. In the article, “Dancing Dream Meaning and Interpretations” author Stephen Klein interpret dance in various ways, one being, “If you are the one dancing, it represents how you feel about life. Dancing can be expression of your feelings of freedom. Or, it can mean you are shaking off feelings of oppression. You may not be someone who responds well to others attempts to control you. Dreams of dancing are a true expression of joy running through your veins “(Stephan Klein 2016). On May 5th, 2017, I attended the Spring Dance Theatre and I was

Contemporary dance was developed in the early 20th century as a movement against the rigid technique of ballet (Blackfish Arts Acadamy, 2006). Using the natural lines of the body to create new movements, the contemporary dance style usually has more fluidity than that of conventional dance styles (Freeman, 2013). In the book ‘Beginning Modern Dance’, Miriam Giguere says ‘The function of dance is communication. . . . By communication is not meant to tell a story or to project an idea, but to communicate experience by means of action . . . out of this came a different use of the body as an instrument, as the violin is an instrument. Body is the basic instrument, intuitive, instinctive. As a result an entirely contemporary set of technics was evolved.’ (Giguere, 2014).