Trujillo Discovery Day Dance Summary

I have learned a lot of lessons in the past years in my life, but the most helpful lesson that I have learned occurred about two years ago. It was the summer of 2015 and my dance studio, Central City Dance, decided to go to Charleston, South Carolina for a national competition. Days before we traveled there, my team was told by our dance teachers that many dance studio in South Carolina are very serious about dancing. We were told that they dance about 10 hours a day and get home schooled, so they can improve at dancing. My team and I were all not looking forward to competing against these hard-working studios, but deep down everyone on the Central City Dance competitive team knew that we could possibly win the entire competition with our huge

Manuel Tavarez Justo had formed a rebel group called “the Fourteenth of June Movement” that were all against Trujillo’s dictatorship. They were determined to allow his government to collapse by any means necessary. Back then, the Mirabal sisters (Maria Teresa, Patria, and Minerva) had attempted to murder Trujillo in the 1960 cattle fair, but their plans have backfired and they got themselves thrown in prison. Later on, Trujillo had some issues with his political fortunes, and so he accused the Mirabal sisters assuming they were the sources of most of his problems. Therefore, he had sent his loyal henchmen to assassinate Las Mariposas while they were traveling to visit their husbands.

Imagine that today is the biggest day of your life. The career you have been so desperately trying to make a name for yourself in is finally giving you a window opprotunity. You're thrilled, because you know that this could be the biggest day of your life. Suddenly you get a call from your boyfriend asking you to come over. You of course do because you know he wouldn’t call you for no good reason. You go to his house, you argue, things escalate,and suddenly everything is black.

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On Saturday, March 28, 2015 at 8pm, I took a trip to the Public Playhouse located in Cheverly, Maryland to witness the “World Dance Showcase”. The “World Dance Showcase” was comprised of six different dances. However, I decided to focus solely on the dance titled “Night in an English Village Pub” that was performed by Charm City Rapper Sword Dancers. This dance was performed by Sindee Ernst, Miriam Hack, Jack Hemler, Rhonda Keilholtz, Kappy Laning, Megan Philippi, Laura Robertson, Joe Shelby, Alexandra Sjaardo, and Jerry Stein and accompanied by traditional tunes that were played by Cyd Shelby. The movements stemmed from traditional figures by Laura Robertson and clogging steps by Anna Marley. The Charm City Rapper Sword Dancers are stationed in Baltimore, MD but are based on a ritual English dance company. The swords that they employ in their dance were derived from a coal-mining instrument. In total, there were ten performers all of which who were White Americans, mainly woman, and above the age of 40.

Rafael Trujillo had sent an invitation to the Mirabal family to attend his private party. He had a special request or was it a demand because its mighty El Jefe? The invitation had mention that Minerva one of the Mirabal sisters to attend. Trujillo was the type to mess around with beautiful girls, get them pregnant, mess their lives up and move on. He even had a wife. He was trying to lure Minerva in too by making her attend his party. Minerva Mirabal was smarter, she knew how El Jefe was and she did not fall for his tricks however that just led to more problems. How could anymore say no to Trujillo? They all must have immense courage and bravery like

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Every year, Valley High School dance classes perform different dances during the spring dance concert. This year the concert title was ¨Dancepirations¨ and was performed two days, April 26th and 27th. As a student taking beginning dance, I was part of this year's dance concert. My dance class and I spent months learning and practicing the choreography that Ms. Torres, Yanell, and Yessenia created for us. It was a hip hop dance using Jennifer Lopez’s songs. Our costume also was chosen for them, it was a blue overall with a yellow mustard or burgundy t-shirt. This was an amazing experience where we realized how capable of dance we are and where we learned lessons of great value.

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Oh, the sights and smells of Cuban culture! Or was it sights and sounds? It seems as though every single sense was simultaneously stimulated together during the breath taking performance of Malpaso Dance Company. On Wednesday, September 16, 2015, the Malpaso Dance Company, led by executive director and co-founder Fernando Saez Carvajal performed at the Carpenter Theatre, in Richmond, Virginia. The company performed two pieces: “Under Fire” and “Despedida” choreographed by Trey McIntyre and Osnel Delgado Wambrug respectively.

I did an interpretive dance for my reflections project. To go along with my movement I chose three songs that represented each of the artists, authors, and composers. To represent The Hudson River School I used the song Ordinary Miracle (Charlotte’s Web, 1980). I used this song because the song describes environment as beautiful and perfect just like the painting from The Hudson River School. In the dance I tried to be very graceful and as perfect as possible by not making my movement choppy to represent how there were no harsh lines or obvious imperfections in the paintings from The Hudson River School. The Hudson River School paintings were like this because they saw America as beautiful and perfect and at the time there were no harsh conflicts.

Minerva had to sit with trujillo at his table, and dance with him. While minerva and trujillo was dancing, minerva got upset with trujillo, and slapped right across the face, then it started raining and everyone was going inside, but minerva and her dad left the dance e without trujillos permission. It was also against the law to leave before trujillo, or without his permission to leave. While they were in the car, minerva realized she had left her pocket book at the dance and that she had letters from lio who was against trujillo. Minerva had told trujillo that she didn’t talk to lioso now she can in trouble for lying to trujillo. The next day minerva's dad sent trujillo a telegraph apologizing for them leaving early from his party without his permission. Trujillo sent some of his soldiers to get the sisters dad and he was arrested. While in jail he lost a lot of weight, and the week before he was released he suffered from a major heart attack and was not treated for it. Shortly after the sisters dad got out of prison he passed away from a stroke. The sisters started a movement with churches and other organizations towards trujillo and women

To begin, I think it is important to discuss my background and why it fueled my interest in taking Salsa I. I am originally from The Bahamas but my mother and her side of the family is Cuban. Growing up, we would spend the entire summer and all of Christmas break staying at my grandmother’s departamento en Kilometro Cerro, Havana. Historically, Cerro was flooded with wealthy families from the countryside who loved to spend their summer time there. Recently, as of 2016, it is ranked as “one of Havana’s poorest municipal barrios” (Larsson). Cerro morphed from the economic epicenter of Havana to a place where taxis rarely frequent. Culturally however, my mother’s neighborhood has yet to dwindle in its cultural fervor. I would see my mother, my cousins, the neighbors (who are more like tiós to me) crowding the already small avenida dancing con tremenda calidiad y con tremenda sabrosura to Son, Rumba or whatever the neighbors happened to

I joined the Pasion Latin Dance Team my freshman year and it was one of the best experiences I have had at Towson. When I attended the first meeting I expected to only see Hispanics, but that was not the case. Pasion consisted of people from different backgrounds and it welcomed each and every one of them. The board was patient when teaching steps because many of them had never been introduced to the dance styles. Not only did Pasion make time for dance, but it also made time to discuss its own culture, but also by discussion the current event issues surrounding the culture of the other individuals in the room. This environment did not just make as a team, but we became the Pasion family. The experience I had with Pasion exemplifies an inclusive

On the evening of August 11th, the remarkable trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, an icon of today’s free improvisation, joined the New York-based quirky trio DarkMatterHalo for a concise performance at the East River Park Amphitheater in Manhattan, followed by the charismatic Nublu Orchestra.