Final Evaluation: Improving My Goals As A Dancer

powers animated the human body, the body could serve as a kind of lever to bring about

Dancing has been my passion since the age of three. Wake up, go to school, go to dance, go to sleep. My life was a routine of the same day playing over and over again, and I loved it. My senior year of high school I was accepted into the Commercial Dance program at Relativity School. I felt my dreams become a reality of the perfect future I had always worked towards.

The dancers in the earliest ballets were highly skilled professionals capable of feats of strength and agility.

I have participated in many different activities and sports over the years, but the one that has stuck with me the most is dance. I started dancing when I was only seven years old, and went on to join a competitive dance team for four years. Dancing has given me many opportunities, such as being part of a team, performing, competing, and the chance to express myself through movement. Participating in dance for so many years gave me the chance to volunteer as an assistant to some of the younger dancers at my dance school, which allowed me to gain leadership skills such as communication and commitment, as well gain teaching experience. At my middle school last year, I was a co-president of the student council, and my job was to lead weekly meetings with the younger students at my school, also contributing to my leadership background.

As a child, academics always came easily to me. While it was wonderful to be able to excel while putting in very little effort, I wasn’t so blessed when it came to physical challenges. My attempts at playing soccer, riding a bicycle, and playing an instrument all resulted in countless amounts of frustration as I didn’t immediately succeed. Nevertheless, I always had my eye on one particular goal: becoming a dancer. I always envied the grace and fluidity in which dancers moved while I was a short, heavy, and clumsy child.

This bibliography is important because it is has allowed me to critically view the sources that I will use for my research paper. I have dissected and deconstructed the data so that I could fully understand them and employ the material effectively. The question I am attempting to answer with my research is to what extent does the arts and specifically dance benefit our psychological body?

Ballet “Cry” simply showed to us real life of all African women. Every single American people know what kind of life they went through. Therefore it touched their heard. Alvin Ailey’s “Cry” presented wonderfully combined movements, technique and emotion. Ms. Donna Wood uses tragic face, a mask of sorrow. It is a face born to cry, but when she smiles it is with an innocent radiance, joyfulness that simple and lovely. She never tries consciously to please an audience. He was not only concentrating in movements and physical performance, but also using flowing white gown

Trust me when I say that I know my way around a ballet barre. I have

My application would be incomplete if I did not include dance. Each year from kindergarten to my senior year of high school I have gotten a new teacher, but my dance teachers continued to remain the same. Almost all of my closest friends dance and it is a big part of our everyday lives. I have been dancing since the fourth grade and am so proud of the accomplishments I have made. If I had not danced all these years my life would be completely different.

Before the show begins, I am in two places at once. I am seated with the rest of the audience, anticipation and casual chatter filling the theatre. I am also “backstage” while my sister Kristal applies makeup and slips into tall white gogo boots. The manager and our long-time family friend, Garry, introduces “the Largest Production of Abba in the World” in his standard announcer voice (Abbamania). The lights are dimmed, the violinists begin playing an upbeat mashup of several Abba melodies from “Super Trooper” to “Take a Chance on Me.” The backup vocalists and lead musicians take their places on stage. Finally Kristal Jackson enters from stage left, costumed as one of the female lead singers of Abba. To me, the women on stage looks a lot like

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

I initially took Jazz III because it is required for my dance minor; I also hoped to gain a better understanding of the Jazz Technique. Throughout this course I achieved the goals that I set at the beginning of the semester. My goals were to be very confident doing double pirouettes and comfortable doing triple pirouettes. I also wanted to focus on being a more conscious turner and dancer. I pushed myself to break my habit of just going for pirouette and hoped that it all worked out. Each class I learned new imagery and pedagogies that have been extremely beneficial to my dance career. A few images and pedagogies that resonated were the idea of my pelvis being an elevator, taking my pelvis with me, especially when doing battement’s, and understanding the placement of a turned in passé. I have already taken and applied the goals, imagery, and pedagogies into my dance career. At first, I was concerned with such varied levels but throughout the course I felt challenged in the Jazz III/I class.

I attended DancePlus show On Friday December 2, 2011 at 7:30pm at night. It was performed in the Victoria K. Mastrobounno Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey. There were four different parts that I saw that day. All of the dances were very interesting and very different from each other. All of the dances had its own unique key factor that separated it from each other. I enjoyed the entire show very well. Out of all the dances I had strong reaction to “Lapa’s Lament”. I believe this specific dance stood out to me compared to the other dances from the show. This show had many different factors that stood out from other shows in the entire performance.

A series of set of movements to music, either alone or with a partner. That is the definition of dancing. Dancing is a way to express one's feeling and to get active.

My semester has been going well, thank you for asking! You expressed an interest in the Dance course that I am taking, so I just wanted to tell you how that class has been going for me so far this semester. Initially, I had thought I was going to take a Music Theory course for my Tier 2 Arts credit, which I need as part of my general education requirements. After being in choir for ten years, it seemed like a good segue from singing into the theory portion of it. However, I decided I wanted to go outside of my comfort zones in college, as this is one of the only times in my life I will be able to explore different things. As cliched as that sounds, it is one of the reasons I am excited to have so many different course selections. Last semester,