Ballerinas

Sort By:
Page 4 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Decent Essays

    Edgar Degas was making drawing of the ballerinas and dancers in 19th century. French artist Edgar Degas created hundreds of artworks that captured the ballet world of 19th century Paris. Degas regularly went to the Palais Garnier Opera House to observe the ballerinas. His focus was on their natural movement as they practiced. Exploring the way the dancers bodies flowed through performance. Edgar showed a talent for drawing while young and wanted to become and artist. Edgar spent a lot of time at

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Best Essays

    elaborate costumes, cheering audiences, lights, weightless movements and beauty; ballet is admired by many. On the magical stage ballerinas can become whoever they wan to be, and perform in a world of fantasy. For these reasons, children, especially little girls, all over the world dream of becoming ballerinas when they grow up. However, becoming a professional ballerina is an extremely difficult accomplishment, in which few will achieve (Kelso 1). The world of ballet may seem to be filled with glitz

    • 1816 Words
    • 8 Pages
    • 7 Works Cited
    Best Essays
  • Decent Essays

    convey one the most important attributes of a ballerina, the ballerina ligne. “Dancer Posing for a Photographer” and “Blue Dancers” are just two of the many portraits Degas created of ballet dancers. Both portraits are fine examples of Degas’ ability to render the beautiful line a ballet dancer’s body creates, the ballerina ligne. This line can be seen in both portraits starting at the neck, moving through the shoulders and arms, and

    • 452 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Miss Black USA Talks about Pageantry and Being a Black Ballerina Photo Credit: Go Fund Me Daphne Lee, who won the national Miss Black USA this year is also a ballerina. She wears her natural curly hair with proud and is very determined to squash the stereotype when it comes to the black female body. This beauty queen and ballerina confidently identifies herself as an Afro-Latina. As a ballerina, she is constantly exposed to the criticisms of targeting the black woman’s body. More than half a century

    • 423 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    expectations can have on a person by examining the features of the character. The focus of the image is on the ballerina whose position is uncomfortable, and stressed from the hunch which portrays escapism. She is hunched over, beginning to step into the other side where there is a world with no precision. As a dancer, she wants to get away from the expectations of perfection that a ballerina has, and the innocence shown in her white dress. Her attire is a white luminated dress that signifies, “mental

    • 737 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    George from thinking”, “That was a pretty dance, Hazel said”, and “George toyed with the idea of ballerinas shouldn’t be handicapped.” This is significant by the reason is that in twenty seconds, George was still able to think of how the ballerinas should not be handicapped when he has handicaps stopping him from thinking a few seconds later. As for Hazel, all she can think of was how the ballerinas dance beautifully. While others may believe that handicaps can control and maintain people to be equal

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Assignment: Art Analysis

    • 477 Words
    • 2 Pages

    2. If i started all over again theres a lot of things id change. Id start painting the ballerinas first. Then the stars, then id paint the whole background, and finally the letters. When i was painting i started off by doing the stars.

    • 477 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The main purpose of this film is to tell the story of Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. In other words, the goal is to show her life during the period of time from the start of her dancing career in 1934 until her death in 2015. One of the biggest history aspects of the film will centralize on how WWII and post-war USSR have affected her career, individuality and personal life. Also, the film will contain parts where people, who knew or worked with Maya Plisetskaya, will share memories and their

    • 1760 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    and the Emperor and Empress were dead before they hit the floor. In the movie it also shows the handicapper general grabbing the H-G mens spas-12 and her shooting the ballerina and harrison. This means that used to both in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” and in the movie “2081” Harrison gets shot and killed along with the ballerina. Although the guns used to shoot them is different Harrison ends up dying in both.

    • 829 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the story The Osage Firebird, Betty Marie wants to be a ballerina. The structure of the text is based on the ideas that were in this passage. The passage describes the girl that wants to be a ballerina but has some challenges to face before she is a professional ballerina. Some of this story deals with the background of the girl. She is a Native American and because she is a Native American, people treat her differently because she comes from a different culture than others. They even pick on

    • 360 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays