Joan Robinson Research Paper

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).

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,”

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

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

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,

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.

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

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

Kenya is a former preschool teacher who started dancing at a young age. Throughout Middle School and High School, She performed at many community events. During the summer she worked as a counselor, at a sports and dance camp for 4 years, where she was soon promoted to dance choreographer. Now Kenya is furthering her education in Physical Therapy, and is ecstatic to take part in Starz mission of providing physical enrichment's to the

On May 26, 1877 Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, California to Joseph Charles Duncan and Mary Isadora Grey (Stokes 1). Not long after her birth her father was exposed for illegal banking, leaving the family extremely poor, resulting in her parents getting a divorce, and Mary Isadora Grey taking the children and moving to Oakland (Stokes 1). From a young age Isadora Duncan rebelled against the antique ideal of a classical ballerina, and taught her own ideas on dance that reflected an established Californian trend (Kurth 22). Isadora’s childhood was spent teaching local children for money. This is where her dance evolved from poses to seamless integrations of patterns based on ordinary physical activities, relying on the idea that the body should not be forgotten while dancing (Kurth 24). By the age of fifteen Isadora and her sister were already listed in the Oakland directory as dance teachers and in

She was 17 when she started dancing, she quit gymnastics to become a dancer. 2 years later when she was 19 she realized it was her passion. She made a career as a dance teacher out of what she loved. There are ups and downs to what she does like creative blocks and difficult students but she never let's that stop

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

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.