Joan Robinson Research Paper

For Arthur Mitchell, ballet wasn’t his first choice in the style of dance. A guidance counselor convinced the young Mitchell to audition for the High School of the Arts where he was more interested in Modern dance. During high school, Karel Shook, who also taught other dance legends like Alvin Ailey, Carmen de Lavallade, and Geoffrey Holder (Grant, 1985), was

The light shine down and the music surrounds her as she dance into the air and across the stage. The audience yells and clap for her as the curtain close. It’s the end of another work week for Jane Onwuegbuchu. Jane comes from a very huge family of 8, where it’s very hard for her to be at the center of attention, especially being the 5th child. Jane was born in Houston, Texas on June 22, 1987 to Rosaline and James Onwuegbuchu. She started dancing at the young age of 3 with Elite dancers and fell in love with dancing since then. “Growing up as a child, Jane was a very good child, she loved dancing and just seeing her dance melt my heart. She was a part of a lot of dance organization, church, youth dance team etc… You name it and she was there,”

In the salsa club she attended, she learned how to dance salsa, bachata and merengue. After getting over her shyness of dancing in front of other students, she discovered just how much she enjoyed dancing and how

Influenced primarily by cultural roots and incredibly opportunity, Dunham had the luxury of studying in the West Indies as well as anthropological study of other cultural style dances. The West Indian experience changed forever the focus of Dunham’s life and caused a profound shift in her career. This initial fieldwork began a lifelong involvement with the people and dance of Haiti. And, importantly for the development of modern dance, her fieldwork began her investigations into a vocabulary of movement that would form the core of the Katherine Dunham Technique. Though many of Dunham’s primary influences lies within her multicultural experiences, Mark Turbyfill also seemed to play a large role in her future dance career, giving her private lessons despite his doubt in the opening of her student company (Kaiso! 187). Katherine Dunham has been list as an influence to “everyone from George Balanchine to Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, Bob Fosse and Twyla Tharp. American dance, including ballet, modern dance, Hollywood and Broadway, would not be the same without her” (Aschenbrenner 226).

Further, she has a specialist website found on the TCU Library website, devoted to just dance. She has even set up library guides to help students find resources in the subject of dance. The most influential thing Ms. Ruede explained during her presentation,

After his return from the war, she continued teaching and danced small roles in Shawn's productions. This is where her career as a dancer began (183).

She studied different types of dance and incorporated them into her own technique. “Called the matriarch of black dance her groundbreaking repertoire combine innovative interpretation of caribbean dances,traditional ballet, African rituals and African American rhythms to create the Dunham technique” (“Katherine Dunham Biography” 2). Dunham technique is continued to be taught at schools and companies all over the world. Her travels to other countries always inspired her choreography. “She is credited for bringing caribbean and African influences to a European-dominated world” (“Katherine Dunham Biography” 2). Dunham’s use of different world influences innovated dance and created more significant choreography. Dunham not only changed how she danced; she created an entirely new

Marti was the best dancer in her studio because she was in a group called scholarship and it was the 6 best dancers in the 6 studios and the other group she was in was called productions it was a school teacher recommendation that was an advanced techniques in

For this project, I interviewed my dance teacher of 11 years, Amy Moretz. She is someone with great importance and meaning to me. During this interview, I learned a lot that I had not previously known about her.

I attended a summer dance intensive, Barbados Dance Project is a program run by Jamal Callender, and tutored by international dancers in the art of dance.

Molly Levy is a dancer, and occasional choreographer, who has been trained classically, as well as trained in modern dance. She is an alumna of The Alvin Alley School of Dance in New York City, although she began her classical training when she was six, at Berkeley City Ballet, and then later at The San Francisco School Of the Arts during high school. (Molly Levy Bio) Levy now works at a place called LED, an experimental dance studio in Boise, Idaho. (Levy) (LED)

talented in the field of dance. She was so good that she won a dance college

Throughout Blair’s dance career, she has been involved in six different dance styles: ballet, tap, jazz, gymnastics, hip-hop, and lyrical – which are a lot of styles for someone who is only twelve years old. Throughout my ten years of dancing, I have done four styles: ballet, jazz, tap, and gymnastics. Honestly, it was too much for me, so I cannot fathom how Blair takes all of these classes. Each style is similar in

When Isadora was a little girl she studied ballet like Delsarte technique and she studied Burlesque and automatically fell in love with dance. She didn't like traditional ballet so she made her own style that was more comfortable. She believed ballet had too many rules. When she was six she began teaching kids in her neighborhood how to dance. Word was spreading about her class and around age ten her classes became bigger.

As a young woman she was greatly influenced by her ballet teacher Christopher Flynn. He influenced her to graduate from high school a semester early and