Debbie Flores Narvaez: A Career In Dance

Hispanic American community are rooted from their origins in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other Spanish speaking countries that have come together and form a culture in the United State of America. The culture is built in different categories; for instance, religion, social custom, health practices their privacy, and birth. They come from a comprehensive familiar culture that has been called the second in America. Because of their pride and affection they feel unsafe to give up their past. Their notoriety in the United State has been their resistance to assimilate; their guarded image of Hispanic-American culture has been the tongue of flame. However, their remarkable legacy, Hispanics carry from Latin America is not their language, an

During the time of the discovery day dance, Trujillo was desiring to dance with the misses. He came across one lady who seemed to be perfect for him, one who stood out better than the rest. She was a fine woman in his eyes. So, he chose her to dance with. They appeared to have had a casual conversation for awhile it seemed.

On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 2:30 P.M. I attended Ballet Hispanico at the Detroit Opera House. Ballet Hispanico was founded in 1970 by Venezuelan born dancer, Tina Ramiez after identifying the need to provide Latino dancers with access to training and performance opportunities. Ballet Hispanico is recognized as one of the country’s top Latino dance organizations. Over the past 40+ years, it has provided dance education and outreach programs to New York communities to engage interested residents in a guided exploration of dance and Latino cultures by expanding their knowledge in aesthetic awareness, cultural appreciation, and self-expression.

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.

Katherine Dunham, an African American dancer from Chicago Illinois had a very successful dance career in American and European theatre in the 20th century. Dunham was a choreographer as well as a dancer. She directed her own dance company for many years before she died May 2006. Dunham was known as the “matriarch and queen mother of black dance” meaning that she was the “head” or “leader” of black dance. Her works and pieces all showed similarity and differences throughout the time in which they were produced. Most of her works were not solos but they were danced with her and her company in which she taught various classes based on her technique.

Indian and Mexican Traditional Dance Thesis statement: Superficially, there are major differences between the Indians and Medicos traditional dance. Body 1: The Dress • What they wear • How they were it • Each culture men and women dancing clothes Body 2: Music: • Kind of music • The language of music (local or global) Body 3: Contemporary dance: • Famous dancer • Old day and new days dancing

1920s Dance styles Dances have been around since the dawn of time. They have been used for expression, exercise and culturism. Creativity has been the essence of dance for every generation and the 1920’s was no exception. The dancing styles of the 1920s was not just about the dancing, it was the start of the history for social changes racially, financially status, etc. Consider this, WWI was a time where people were fighting for their country or because they believed in what was right.

When Debbie Reves was twenty-four, she was working as a registered veterinary technician at Fairway Animal Hospital. She felt too old and mature to be frequenting the bar scene; however, one of her closest friends, Tara, was going through a divorce and convinced Debbie to join her for a few hours at Guitars and Cadillacs in Olathe, Kansas on June 6, 1996. Jon Maska, a twenty-nine-year-old middle school-teacher who hated country music, was dragged to Guitars and Cadillacs on this same night by his best friend, Steve. When Steve got a little too bold and flirty with Debbie, Jon forced his friend to leave her alone and apologized. After the apology, Debbie and Jon started to talk and hit it off. They ditched the bar for a local iHop. At the end

Today one of the most powerful ways of communication is through music and dance. In every house hold from the edges of the earth everything has a rhythm. Whether it be our heart beat, even the way we blink, talk, breath and how we think is to a rhythm. We all have our own theme music if you will. Music has evolved from the beginning of time until now, music dates back from the beginning of time. Music and Dance are the most important things in my life. This is the way I express myself and that is why this topic is so important to me. Since dance has evolved there has been some issues that many people have stumbled across. Music and dance is becoming very sexual and I haven’t been thinking like this for that long. While on Twitter I stumbled

Lizzie frequented the theater and would sing the songs from the current musicals to Martha and her sisters, but it wasn’t until middle childhood that Martha experienced going to the theater herself. Martha’s first experience with theater was a Punch and Judy show that her Father took her and her sister to when their family was on holiday in Atlantic City. As the curtains parted Martha saw another world, one created out of nothing and this sparked Martha’s love for theatrics, although Martha wouldn’t discover her true passion, which is dance until later in life. At this time Martha had no exposure to dance as an art form, only as a means of entertainment. It was through this exposure to the theater at a young age and the dramatic play in

A wide array of ideas and concepts are used to determine the categorization for post-modernism, expressionism, and formalism. Post-modernism is typically categorized by everyday movements. It is said by some that one does not even need be a dancer in order to do this style of choreography. It is similar to contemporary dance which is a combination of modern and post-modern dancing. Expressionism is basic movement with the intent of expressing an emotion or feeling behind it. Expressionism originated in Germany and can be easily identified when associated with “story-telling” or the conveyance of an emotion. Formalism is categorized by very structured and specific movement. Its counterpart could arguably be expressionism because formalism is

Today was a slow but productive day. My supervisor Jim Hornsby scheduled me for a class in order to be a certified field navigator within the practicum. A field navigator is another word for case manager. The class was held about a few hundred yards from CTLC. The class started at eight o’clock, I was the first to arrive. When I sat down in the empty classroom I found myself reflecting on how much I have accomplish in just this year alone. In the middle of my reflection, I heard a loud bang at the door, so I went to investigate and there were the rest of the students. They all came in a pack, everyone knew everyone except me. The pack of student were smiling from ear to ear and talking about their weekend plans,

While Antheil was living in Paris in the 1920’s, Sylvia Beach introduced him to a filmmaker by the name of Fernand Legér. Together they came up with an idea that would eventually be conceived as Ballet Mécanique. While both the film and the score were created at the same time, the two were very quickly separated into their own separate artistic entities. Inspired by the factory setting he grew up in, and the avant-garde art he was exposed to while living in Paris.

With those students at Eastman she launched her own company, The Martha Graham Dance Company. One of the early pieces of the company was “Frontier” (1935), a solo performance about pioneer women. For more than 10 years, her company consisted of only women. Martha was indeed feminist, and many of her pieces such as Cave of the Heart— which is a dance version of the legend but rather an exposure of the Medea latent in every women, who out of consuming jealousy, not only destroys those she loves as well— Seraphic Dialogue (about Joan of Arc), Letter to the World (about Emily Dickinson), Clytemnestra, Errand Into The Maze and Night Journey, showed women power of victimization and how it should be fixed. Even though she preferred her company

In one my classes; Dance Appreciation, I had an assignment to view a dance piece on YouTube. The dance that I viewed was called “She without arm, he without leg, Hand in Hand”. The dance was not only informative, but it was enlightening to watch.