Barbie In The Nutcracker

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It’s an artistic medium in which the human body is used to express visually. There are many genres of dance, just like how there’s horror and romantic genres in music or film. Each dance genre can correspond to a period of time, gender, religion or musical tune. Within dance, we have multiple occupations and purposes. Everything and everyone experience different levels and a variety of dances; even our eyes “dance” as we read the words on the covers of magazines.
There are many factors that determine your knowledge and likeness of dance. Maybe when you were just a toddler, your parents presented you with a television, where you randomly saw someone move to a song that correlated to the show that was about to come on. In that second you immediately …show more content…

At the age of four, dancing was something my body did on its own and, there was not that much mental effort being put in to do it. I recall turning five or so, when I finally recognized dance as something concrete. It was Barbie in the Nutcracker; a movie based on the classical Russian compositions and original ballet of The Tale of the Nutcracker. As soon as that movie was presented to me, my parents enrolled me in the dance studio next door. For me, it was a dream come true and luckily the studio was just a small walk away. Jazz, ballet, and tap were part of my curriculum, but back then not all of the vocabulary stuck with me. That studio was the beginning of my love for the arts because there was dance, music, the clothes we would wear (class attire and performance attire), and the posters that accompanied the shows we were presenting that semester. I remember there being this bin where there were all these shoes of all types. These shoes were pairs that no longer fit the owner, and I thought to myself how blessed I was because I didn’t have to buy shoes all the time. The thing was that if you took a pair of shoes from the bin, you would have to exchange them for a pair of your own shoes that didn’t fit you. Now that I look back, that helped so much financially because I was constantly growing and breaking in my …show more content…

If you’re bored daydreaming, well you can dance right there where you are. If for some reason you find yourself protesting, just dance it out because it doesn’t hurt anyone. Honestly, dance can be anything and everything for anyone and everything, just depends on how you look at it. I think if we are all more open to it, we will experience the loveliness it provides on all levels. We can reproduce, show, reinvent, innovate, create, authenticate or perform something that will never be performed again. Perhaps you might want your dance pieces to be filmed so that they are preserved for eternity. Some people even take dance poses and turn them into still art photography, where you can gaze at the shapes our bodies can do with hard training, or the first dance of your beloved wedding with your

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