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    Well that’s how I felt this summer when I was auditioning for Claire this summer break.This summer break my summer my studio , Anderson Young Ballet Theater, has this thing we do called dance camp. Dance camp is a two week process that takes place in the summer. It’s also when we get ready for our next production of the Nutcracker, the Nutcracker a ballet that is performed near Christmas, and most families go to see it as a Christmas tradition. During dance camp, we rehearse, learn, and audition

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    Verb Ballets launches its year long 30th Anniversary celebration! Over the years the company’s style has evolved and garnished praise and enthusiasm from audiences and critics alike. This extraordinary evening of programming showcases a rich and powerful assortment of works within the Verb Ballets repertoire along with exciting new premieres. Featured will be the new ballet, Appropriated Memories, by Anthony Krutzkamp that melds classical form with innovation to create fresh contemporary movement

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    rigid and standardized ballet which tortured and restrained their body and mind. Against that society's convention, there was a woman who tried to communicate with people through her dance. She, Isadora Duncan, was a pioneer of the modern dance, and her dance embraced her sophisticated ideals. Even though the public remember her only with the complicated and scandalous rumors about her lovers and dramatic death by scarf, Isadora Duncan’s new style of dance which led a new paradigm reflected freedom–not

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    On a chilly Friday night in December at the Dixson center at Lurleen B. Wallace community college it was opening night for the Andalusia Ballet’s Nutcracker and in the wing with a little pink tutu with white and pink stoned embroiders on the top and around the skirt ready to walk onto the stage as every little girl’s dreams the Sugar Plum Fairy. As I was rolling through my pointe shoes to get my feet warmed up. I was so excited and nervous I could barely stand still. This was the moment I have been

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    it embraces differences and instead of the traditional European idea of resolving conflict, Africanist aesthetic presents a question and demonstrates the beauty in accepting conflict. One way in which the Africanist aesthetic differs from European ballet is how they utilize polycentrism, having multiple centers of movement, and polyrhythm, when different body parts keep multiple rhythms. Other ways include the high-affect juxtaposition, changes in mood, movement, or tempo, to the drastically contrasting

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    The fifth and final 2017 Colorado Springs Philharmonic and Oklahoma City Ballet performance of The Nutcracker took place on Sunday, November 26, 2017, at 2:00 pm at the Pikes Peak Center. This rendition featured Conductor Thomas Wilson, Oklahoma City Ballet Artistic Director Robert Mills, the Colorado Springs Children’s Chorale, and numerous student dancers from the Pikes Peak Region. Through the excellence in the music, dancing, and stage and costume design, this holiday Nutcracker performance not

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    They have been vigorously practicing and preparing for this since the beginning of August, and the year before they started (from scratch starting in June) and going (on through November) and part (of December to prepare this performance.) Pointe and ballet shoes, bobby pins, skirts, leotards, tights, dance bags, water bottles, trash bag pants, warm-up booties and more are scattered (around the very slender and congested hallway,) resembling the locker commons at the end of the school day. Girls are

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    Looking From the Outside In, Russian Ballet Never knowing of an art form and to see the importance that is gathered from it can change an opinion. I am speaking in ballet and in specific, the ballet of Russian. My reasoning for selection such a meticulous and thorough form is dance is to get a better view and to look from the outside in is where I am now. What make this form of dance interesting to me is that I have never taken the time to give my full undivided attention to it as I have with music

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    This, too, is a problem everywhere. In NYCB history, there was the prolonged principal career of Karin von Aroldingen, a dancer whose talents were completely unsuited to Balanchines’s ballets but who was a close personal friend of his. Conversely, Balanchine was not overly fond of Violette Verdy, and did not cast her a great deal. He also had a very annoying (to me, at least) tendency to favor a few corps members at a time and give them

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    was the opening program of the Ballet Society that had premiered at a high school in New York in November 1946. The ballet is what inspired Balanchine to expand his views and talents on dance and music composition. Through the influences of Diaghilev, Balanchine was introduced to a whole new world of artists, dancers, choreographers, and musicians. Diaghilev was a ballet dancer who created his own dance company to produce new, provocative, and avant-garde ballets that would impress the audiences

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