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Amethyst Ready For The Dance
925 wordsOnce upon a time there was a girl named Amethyst. She was the most beautiful girl in the world. Her 3 evil stepsisters were so ugly and they didnt like Amethyst so they made her clean the house and didnt let her have any fun. The evil stepsisters were always making plans to kill her. One day, the evil stepsisters bought an AK 47 and hired a hit man to kill Amethyst. The hit man took Amethyst in to the woods behind her house. He pulled out his gun but he couldnt do it. So, he took her to the midd...
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5th Graders For Mrs Benson
811 wordsHave you did something that you didn't really want to do, and then later get selected for doing it? Well, I have. It was another beautiful Friday at Spottsville Elementary School, and ever Friday at Spottsville was music class. But today we didn't have music class, today was something totally different. Our music teacher Ms. Belcher was having try-outs for Mrs. Benson's ballroom dance team. To tell you the truth, I was just going to get up there and goof-off, and that I did do. But, on that Frid...
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Request To Lord Brahma
740 wordsLike many Indian arts, Indian dance also has its root in religion. Without the religious and cultural background of India, the growth and beauty of Indian dance is not possible. In 'Natya Shastra', there is a small story about the origin of Indian dance. According to Hindu mythology, dance first existed in heaven. There was always a constant conflict between the Asuras and the Devas for wealth and power. The Devas were tired of the Asuras' greediness and jealousy. It was during this long period ...
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My Passion For Dancing
648 wordsMy Passion Lies with Dance Dancing has been a huge learning experience for me and the influence it has had on my life, I will never forget. I've learned teamwork as well as leadership, and for countless numbers of hours for 6 years I have spent my days devoting myself to practicing, perfecting and an open-mind. To me, dance is more than just a beautiful art form. Dance is a way to communicate with people and it should be respected and honored. I feel it is beautiful, exciting and inspiring. I ca...
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Dance Floor With The Anticipation
2,362 wordsIt was one of those nights that the sky was clear and the stars were visible. I had just defeated the stress of finals and was now ready to be back in action; the late night activity of the San Francisco underground scene was calling my name. It is where a person could go and walk down one street and probably visit at least 30 clubs by doing this. There was a particular flavor I was in search of this night, something that could make me exert my body to its fullest extent. I needed to go and rele...
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John And Beverly Clark
1,264 wordsYou expect a 'comedy' to tickle your funny bone so you can walk out chuckling. Yes, Shall We Dance does raise laughs. But - it also raises some interesting questions. The DVD says it's 'A New Comedy About Following Your Own Lead' and a pun like that is bound to appeal to the individualistic age we are supposed to be living in. It does indeed - and yet, what is happiness and contentment? Is it a lovely, loving and loved spouse and all the trappings of a comfortable settled life? Can there be a se...
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Pleasure In Dance Halls
565 wordsPeiss, Kathy. (1986). Cheap Amusements. New York: Temple University. In Cheap Amusements, Kathy Peiss studies the customs, values, public styles, and ritualized interactions expressed in leisure time of the working-class women living in New York. The social experiences of these young women gives different clues to the ways in which these women constructed and gave meaning to their lives between the years of 1880-1920. The laboring poor's leisure activity was brief, casual, and non-commercial. Am...
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Martha Graham Left Denishawn
1,069 words"How was contemporary movement introduced to Britain in the 1960's? Who were the influences, works and companies that evolved from this movement?" Contemporary movement was introduced to Britain in the 60's with respect to work that had been done in the United States by Martha Graham, working originally out of a tiny Carnegie Hall studio in midtown Manhattan back in 1926. Martha Graham has often been compared to Constantin Stanislavsky (the "father" of contemporary theatre), and his work with th...
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Height And Weight Restrictions On Dancers
849 wordsBolshoi Decides It's Over Before 'Fat' Lady Dances NYTimes. com; September 16, 2003; by Sophia Kishkovsky A Reaction Paper "Height and weight are not the test of a great ballerina", said Anastasia Volochkova. This well-known ballerina was fired from the Bolshoi theatre for being "hard to lift" and not fit for a pas de deux. I agree with Ms. Volochkova's statement. I believe that your strength, determination and willingness to work hard and constantly improve your abilities are qualities needed t...
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Boy's Head
947 wordsArtists have always been inspired by myths and legends, and have the exceptional ability to transform them into visual form. Sometimes the art is the only surviving record that shows that a culture or civilization actually existed. Joseph Campbell considers artist's mythmaker's because they translate the true hidden meaning of the work into something that is believable and meaningful. He states that with the help of metaphors, a piece of art or literature can be "elevated from a mythical experie...
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Ibo War Dance
544 wordsIn Things Fall Apart, power, strength, aggression, and force define manhood. The warriors, the workers, and the wrestlers are the most respected men in the village. The Ibo rituals and communal activities are manifestations of their definition of manhood. Wrestling tournaments in which the victor earns a title, wins a bride, or receives much respect draw the whole village, Ewefiki, Okonkwo's second wife, fell in love with Okonkwo for his wrestling skills. The Ibo war dance, an aggressive combina...
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Book N The Oxford Dictionary Of Dance
880 wordsF is for Flatley – or is it? The new Oxford Dictionary of Dance must rank as one of the year's most authoritative-looking volumes. Its dust jacket is coloured in sober greys and blues, while its contents are laid out in uncluttered, readable type. The facts seem to march confidently from one column to the next, almost as if they had written themselves. But as one of its authors, I know how slippery and quarrelsome those facts really are. I was commissioned to write the dictionary five year...
