My First Part Of The Combo

There are many different “worlds” on this planet we live on called Earth. Everyone alive lives in some kind of little “world” of their own. There is the celebrity world, the “Disney” World, “Wally-world”, lots of different sports worlds, scholastic worlds, and so many others. There is a particular world that some live in, and that is the World of Dance. When you are a part of that world, you literally live and breathe it. Every aspect of the dance culture is wrapped up in that world. To those looking in from the outside it is beautiful, filled with lights, lovely costumes, mesmerizing music, and graceful movements.

“What are you even doing here? I have never seen such flawed technique in all my years as a choreographer.” The words echoed throughout the medical college auditorium. Impelled by the admonishment in front of my peers, I persevered in my endeavor to improve upon my dancing prowess and by the final year of medical school was leading the college dance team. The above mentioned undertaking further spawned an interest for the discipline of Latin Ballroom which lead to participation at the national level. The unwavering focus and persistence even in the face of unfavorable odds is more broadly reflective of my approach towards learning, both academic and extracurricular. This has been instrumental in achieving stellar academic outcomes including being ranked nationally in the top 0.0004 percent in the premedical test and the top 0.6 percent in the common aptitude test for management training.

Dance demands the same physical skills that are required in other sports. Flexibility, strength, and endurance are key characteristics that most dancers need to posses. As with other “athletes,” most dancers are not born with these abilities but must establish them through practice and repetitive training. Similar to traditional sports practices, dance rehearsals are extensive and require diligence, dedication, and patience from the dancers as they will have to repeat exercises and stretches to perfect their technique and stay on

A common theme to their dances was society’s affinity with the Earth. The most common step in African dancing, which would later become the most basic step in tap dancing, was an example of this symbiotic relationship. In order to stay connected with the power of the Earth, dancers would keep their feet close to the dirt. Flatfootedness created steps that consisted of dragging, gliding, and shuffling step(Knowles). Today’s tap clearly resembles African dance because it often utilizes drags, slides, and

For our cultural event we decided to take pride in our Latin roots and hosted a dancing workshop, a Salsa Night. On this night we were accompanied by some of the ladies of Lambda Theta Phi and Lambda Sigma Gamma, as well as some friends. The plan for this workshop was to have a dance instructor teach all of us how to dance Salsa, as well as some other Latin dance styles. We reached out to the brothers and asked for help, thanks to that we were able to get an Alumni Brother name Netzahualcoyotl Romero to teach our workshop. Netza took us step by step on the basics of Salsa dancing, and little by little we were able to learn that…. we are terrible dancers, despite our two left feet we did not give up and kept on trying. Thanks to the encouragement

The beginning of class was a bit challenging because it has been so long since I have actually practiced dance and stretched. The workout and warm up for the first two weeks kept my body in great shape capable of feeling relaxed and muscles moving. The warm up made the dances a bit easier to actually keep up, but still was a challenge. The way the stretches are handled are great because it is a new routine my body has not gone through. It is quiet the challenge because my left leg is stronger than my right, but I push through to have the equal exposure.

Dance is not only physically asset but also a mental challenge. There is the pressure of performance, there is the pressure to remember and get all your steps right in order to improve, and also as a dancer you are constantly working on technique so that everything is perfect. As you can see, dance

showed the spirit of America and their generation. “As a choreographer Graham initially returned to simple and primitive movements—walking, running, and skipping…” ("Graham, Martha (1893-1991)”). This created a basic “mood” for the dance. Their movements were angular and blunt combined with firm facial expressions to explore what made human emotions and feelings. Martha’s classes started on the floor and warmed-up their spines, back and leg muscles. She wanted her students to give each movement intensity saying “push down against it to give it more strength to your movements” (Freedman 55).

Dance has been a natural movement form since the beginning of time. The origin of dance is unknown, just as the knowledge of the benefits of dance are unknown to many in our society. Many people do not enjoy dancing and also do not fully understand the positive benefits that come from dancing. Researchers such as Edwards, Duberg, and many more have found countless mental and emotional benefits of dance that originate from movement patterns, brain connections, and even expressions of emotion. Many are aware of the physical benefits of dance, but beyond the physical benefits of dance, there are also emotional and mental benefits that come from dance as well.

Warming up is crucial to increase the blood flow to the muscles and loosen the joints but it is mainly done to prevent injuries. A warm up is done before beginning to the dance, it consists of commencing with a few exercises along with stretches, then start to make different movements combination of cardiovascular exercises, isolations, stretching and strength drills progressively causing perspiration without becoming out of breath. Cardiovascular exercises increase heart rate, the body increases temperature and stretching warms the muscles making the muscles more flexible, the muscle temperature rises to 30 degrees Celsius when the dancer is resting which improves the muscle flexibility

As I engaged in fitness and physical activities this past year, my experiences have included dancing as one activity that I do. I joined the Kealakehe Dance Team as a sport and I've done it for the whole year. I started in August and u have continued until now. I go to dance practice everyday after school until 6 pm. At practice, we do a series of warm ups before we actually start dancing. The first thing we would usually do is stretch which can sometimes be painful because I would be sore from practice the day before and my coach would make us hold the stretch for a while and push us further. She would sometimes use textbooks as weights and put it on our feet when we do wall splits to push us down more after we stretch, we would sometimes

The dance moves you find here are not common in fitness videos. They are basically aerobic moves. Here they are:

Next, the aspect of step-turn-step-clap going to the right, would be learned. After that, it would be added to all of the previous steps and the dancers would perform all the steps they learned in order, with the music. The same thing would occur when going to do the step-turn-step-clap on the left side and it would be added to all of the previous steps. Next, the performers would learn how to point up toward the ceiling and then down to the ground. This part of the dance would be practiced and then combined with all previous parts until it is learned. After pointing, they would learn how to roll their arms and pop their chest, or what is known as doing “the chicken”. This part of the dance would be practiced until it’s learned, then practiced all together with all of the movement they know this far. Lastly, the dance would be completed when the participants learn how to turn around themselves by moving their right leg front, back and to the side. Segmentation would be most effective because learning a dance has many parts and it is important to learn each part and then practice them all together so that the dance can be completed fully without

There are different styles of dancing. There is the Charleston, The Black Bottom, Waltz, Salsa , and The Foxtrot. Some of the dances are hard to dance but some are easy to dance. It would be easier if you had a dance partner to dance these dances. The Waltz, The Charleston, Salsa and the Foxtrot you have to dance with partners. Some of the dances are slow moving, and some of them are fast. Some may start out slow then get faster, or some may start out fast then go slow. Some can go slow then fast then slow again or fast then slow then fast.

The objective in lesson 1, we can see does not only broaden their understanding by introducing a new word and its meaning, but also demonstrates how this can become a stimulus for dance creation. As with lesson 2 they learn to use every day movements as a starting point for movement design and this is continued in lesson 3