Pto Spring Fling Dance Essay

When I was in high school, I was captain of my dance team right out of middle school. I was the first freshman to ever be captain of the dance team (captain positions were for juniors and seniors). I felt amazing! I just knew I was the “boom diggity.” Every of the girls on the dance team would come to me for help and tips on their pirouettes and piques. Even outside of the dance studio, I became pretty popular for a freshman. Being the dance team captain had given me a total boost up the social latter and an instant level of acceptance. Until my sophomore year in high school when a new junior, named Kelly, decided to try out for the team. I remember watching her try out and thinking to myself, “her leaps are way higher than mine.” However,

According to (Mc Coy) family is very important in the African American community. Without a family bond, this community would have struggled to make it through trying times such as the violence and exploitation of racism throughout this country’ history’’

The year was 2010, the setting was a high school gymnasium, and the scene was a junior high homecoming dance. The students of Dawson Boyd School had just finished dancing enthusiastically (if somewhat awkwardly) to Soulja Boy when the DJ announced that the next song would be a slow dance–the first of the night. The tension in the room could be cut with a plastic butter knife. To make matters worse, the DJ thought it would be a great idea to have the girls ask the boys to slow dance. At this point, my twelve year old self was shaking in her Ugg boots and sweating through her plaid button down from Hollister. Seventh grade was an awkward year for me; I was taller than most of the boys and not quite yet comfortable in my skin. I was sure that I was about to be rejected, but my mama didn’t raise a quitter, so I confidently strode over to the tallest boy in my grade and asked him to dance. Luckily for me, not only did he say yes, but he also asked me to dance during every slow song thereafter. It was just about the most romantic thing that could happen to a seventh grader and it didn’t go unnoticed by our classmates. After being pressured to date throughout the whole night, he finally asked me out during the last song. After that, our love blossomed. He would hold my hand in the hallways, write me notes in class, and give me compliments, just like in the movies. At the time, I took this to mean that we were in love, though it’s easy to see in hindsight that what we shared was

For this choreography, I decided to stick to Ballet/Jazz dancing. I was inspired to create my dance based off of a phoenix. In Greek mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that has been regularly regenerated or reborn. There is not a specific way of how a phoenix truly dies; some say a phoenix dies in a shower of flames or simply perishes and decomposes. Once it dies, a phoenix is reborn rising from the ashes of its predecessor. My intention for this assignment was to choreograph something my peers would clearly understand. I hoped to accurately represent the process of its rebirth, as well as include a feature of the phoenix. Although my dance explained the process of death and rebirth, I know if I had more time to plan and create my dance

The Faculty Dance Concert was an entertaining event filled with a variety of dance styles. The show took place on Friday, November 6, 2015, at 7:30 in the evening, and was held in the Fullerton College Campus Theatre. The founding artistic director is Melanie Kay Rosa and the assistant artistic director is Lisa M. Anderson. The dance faculty choreographers are Lisa M. Anderson, Sarah Cashmore, Teresa Jankovic, and Melanie Kay Rosa. The four guest choreographers are Helen Gardea, Robert Laos, Devon Smith and Shawnee Amara Williams. The two student choreographers are Ashely Garcia and Madeline Young.

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

She breaks all the images of American standard of beauty such as being physically pretty. She

The New York City Ballet conducted a dance performance titled “New Beginnings” on the 57th floor of the Four World Trade Center in New York. The performance took place September 12th, 2013 and was intended to commemorate September 11th, 2001. A tragic event, such as September 11th, tends to leave a bitter taste in one 's mouth. The public is generally heartbroken, angry, and distressed. This performance seeks to influence the general US audience by using dance as a means of changing the perception of the aftermath of disaster. By following a narrative structure, the dance performance begins by setting the scene of New York City. The performance is then followed with analogies through dance designed to provide moments of action, climax, and resolution. The New York City Ballet uses pathos and an instance of logos through movements to enforce their attempt to alter one’s perspective. There is plenty of pathos used throughout the dance performance in order to motivate a change in thinking from the audience. I believe this strategy was extremely effective because by influencing how the audience emotionally reacts to the performance there is more likely to be a change in audience perception. The ballet incorporates inductive reasoning by taking the specific situation of September 11th and implying that, after tragedy, we will ultimately have a “new beginning”. I believe the logical appeal of this implication is effective because the audience is naturally inclined to believe if

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

For centuries when a person was diagnosed with a disability they were institutionalized per the doctor’s request. There were many advancements in the 20th century in trying to get people who suffer from a disability the proper help they need. During the 1960s, “President Kennedy called for the deinstitutionalization of people with disabilities and increase in community services” (Disability Rights, 2012, p.6). President Kennedy wanted the community to come together to help assist people with a disability specifically mental retardation. Due to numerous laws enacted by the government, in today’s society the community gets involved in assisting people of all different types of disabilities. One of the ways they do this is through a special service dance. On September 27, 2014 in Tenafly at the Jewish Community Center, I attended the special service dance that is available for all different types of disabilities. This dance has a mix of high functioning and low functioning people with disabilities, from the ages of fourteen to twenty five. I choose to do the dance because many of the topics were covered in class were displayed at the dance.

The stage performance of Rogers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma was a beautiful integration of book, song and dance. The three elements add richness and aesthetic quality in very distinctive ways. Dance is a form of expression using rhythmic movements of the body. Facial expressions and the use of body language through dance offer portrayals of feelings that compensate for dialogue. The choreography done by Agnes de Mille integrates dance into the lives of the frontiersmen (and women) of the Oklahoma territory. The 20th Century Fox film version released in 1955 had key differences than the current Broadway musical. One of the main differences other than a little extra dialogue was the utilization of dance. In the film dance was not used as a

The varieties of jazz dance reflect the diversity of American culture. Jazz dance mirrors the social history of the American people, reflecting ethnic influences, historic events, and cultural changes. Jazz dance has been greatly influenced by social dance and popular music. But, like so much that is “from America”, the history of jazz dance begins somewhere else.

If I had to study, learn and preform one style of dance, I would choose Salsa dancing. I find this style interesting because it looks very fun to watch while it makes me want to start dancing even without knowing any salsa moves. Hearing the bongos pounding with the maracas sending shockwaves through a person’s body is a sight to behold upon the dancing world. Being inexperienced is not an issue at all because you’re not judged by doing it incorrectly, but judged upon your enthusiasm to the best performance given. There are many characteristics of salsa but here are a few of them. It is a partner dance where the man leads and the woman follows. The music has 4 beats per measure but the dancers only take steps on 3 of the beats pausing for one

A community is a group of people that share a common or similar characteristic with each other. Some communities can also consist of people living together or practice worship. My essay will include the communities that I am part of which are my dance, school and church communities.

Dance therapy is a type of psychotherapy that uses movement to further the social, cognitive, emotional, and physical development of the individual. Dance therapists work with people who have many kinds of emotional problems, intellectual deficits, and life-threatening illnesses. They are employed in psychiatric hospitals, day care centers, mental health centers, prisons, special schools, and private practice. They work with people of all ages in both group and individual therapy. Some also engage in research.