I had my first dance recital on the day I turned four. Now I don’t remember anything from that day, but I believe that that day is when I learned I loved to perform. I’ve been taking dance lessons since then, and many things that I do now involve performing in some type of way. When I was a kid, I tried every sport out there. I was in basketball, softball, and even gymnastics. From all those sports, excluding gymnastics, I realized that I do not enjoy the pressure of competing directly with another team. Because of that, I quit each of them after a year or two. Dance I continued throughout elementary school and until now. In middle school and high school I added other activities, like cheerleading, speech, show choir, and more. Singing was another performance thing I loved. I remember my best friend in second grade getting annoyed with me because she didn’t want to keep making up songs with me. In fifth grade my two best friends and I would hold “concerts” at recess, and we were sure we …show more content…
The special acts have to be within the theme and could be a solo, duet, trio, or you could even dance if you wanted to. The 2013 theme was Broadway, so all our music was picked from musicals that had been/were on Broadway. The concert choir was doing a medley of songs from Les Miserables and a piece from the Phantom of the Opera, and I decided that I wanted to do a special act as well. For whatever reason, I had found a song on Youtube and had been listening to it for a couple weeks before we even knew the theme for Spotlight. The song was “Take Me or Leave Me” from Rent and is a duet in the musical. My friend Callie and I decided it would be fun to do this duet together, and so we started practicing when we
Many people say, "Do not judge a book by its cover," but the cover of this book drew me into a journey of reading. The line of the letters Silent Dancing is on top; just below that is a picture of a beautiful four-year old girl. Perhaps she lives with a wealthy family; the girl looks so cute and pretty in her dress. Like many other young girls who usually love toys, she is holding a rattlebox; however, she does not pay attention to the toy in her hands. The young girl appears sad because of wide opened eyes that seem interested of what is in front of her. The quiet lips that have no smile make her look shy and older than her time. Why does this young girl have a feature of sadness? This picture seems to suggest that after reading Silent Dancing I should have the proper answer to that question.
Since the age of two, I have been dancing. I have been involved in lyrical and classical ballet, contemporary, pointe, hiphop, jazz and tap. When I turned 6 I also took up gymnastics. Through middle school I danced, and did gymanstics as well as softball and soccer. I loved these sports but when high school hit, I had to pick one and I chose cheerleading. I chose this sport because it was not only a extraordinary team athletically but they were extremely involved with the community. We had fundraisers for less fortunate children multiple times and even got to interact with them every winter. The leadership role on the cheer team taught me so much, we lead the entire student body to have school spirit and respect at the football games every friday night. My senior year I decided to switch back to dance and tried out for my high school dance team, and made it! It has been such a blessing to me by showing me even more leadership and how to serve others at our school and in the community.
At the age of two I put ballet shoes on for the first time. At eleven I began touring with performance groups. By age twelve, I knew how to dance through broken toes and fractures.
When I was 12, I watched a local preliminary. Seeing young women speaking on stage, getting to perform and be
I love to dance and sing over anything. I’ve been singing since I could talk and dancing since I could walk. I did my first solo at church when I was 3 and that was also around I joined the dance team at church. I currently still dance at church I’ve never stopped because I love it that much. When I was 5 I got in gymnastics I didn’t like it so I got out when I turned 7. I told my mom I wanted to be a dancer so she put me
As a child I've always loved ballet from afar; there was just a grace about ballerinas that I too wanted to have. It took me a while to understand that dancing makes me feel amazing. Dancing would prove to be my pinnacle form of expression and the ultimate way to embrace freedom with all of me. Thus, taking this ballet class seemed like the smartest way to pleasantly incorporate dance into my busy economics ruled schedule. I thought I would be nervous on the first day, but I would find myself excited and eager.
An obstacle I encountered was trying to reach the same skill level as the other dancer, considering I started dancing when I was in 8th grade while most of the people in my class started at a young age. I worked hard every day, trying to improve my skills; every day, I would fall, get hurt, and eventually got back up. However, I managed to get up because, in the end, I became one step closer to being with the students in my class. The motivation to getting better and improving my skills got me through that obstacle because it allowed me to push beyond my limits and that allowed me to do well in dance.
me of how powerful music is. As soon as we starting singing while we were putting up
How much could a tiny tot possibly have to share with the world in one dance class? Let me tell you, in my first dance class I thought I had become the most beautiful thing in the world. In my head, I floated above the ground with every movement I made, like a water lily; I became the most spectacular princess in the land with every leap, and the most elegant fairy as I sat down with my legs crossed and my hands in my lap. However, in reality I was running around with a blue, almost see-through scarf in my hand like a baby elephant learning to walk, and in horrible princess manners, giving my classmates, that were not taking the class as seriously as I thought they should, dirty looks. Dance class was a place where if I closed my eyes tight enough, I could block out reality, become whatever I wanted and tell any story I wanted to.
In middle school, I had my first ever school dance. I went with my best friends and we danced the day away. I had these really close friends named Sydnee and Kaity. W would go to almost every Saints game together and we would have sleepovers a lot. I went to Jefferson Middle School. It was really fun. When I was in 7th grade, I joined the schools talent show. I sang Hello by Adelle and I won. I had a beautiful voice. I decided to go to the Voice Kids to see if I could
As I was growing up my family and I would usually go and see ballets and then as I grew older we stopped going. When you are in Elementary school you have music class and to make it fun your class usually had to put on a play/musical. When I was in 2nd grade maybe I remember I finally auditioned to be a reindeer in a Christmas musical that was taking place. I only got the role because the person who originally got it wasn’t sad enough and couldn’t sign because he was stage fright. I remember how fun it use to be but that feeling soon faded because of all the lines and things that went with it. Musicals all through school were always fun to hear about but I never really paid much attention because I found
There are many great musicals that the world has ever seen in the past years. Some have often brought us to tears while some may have brought to us to a world far beyond our imagination’s reach. In a world where television and the internet have often given us too many options to choose from as a form of entertainment, the soul and level of perfection still brought about by the broad way musicals are still one of the best for some of us.
This world is filled with many different kinds of people. Of those people, many are, or have been, students. Each of them has their own way of interacting with their peers and the adults around them to achieve the highest level of education they can possibly get. For example, some people learn visually, while others learn through auditorily or tactilly. Personally, I tend to learn through my visual and audial senses. Seeing and hearing something at the same time helps it stick in my head, which, in turn, allows me to retain more of the lesson being taught in my head. Generally, I work hard and am very determined to learn things in every class, even if I don’t think it is interesting. When I really like a class, I spend less time studying it, since I get very absorbed in the lessons being taught and remember almost everything. In classes I don’t like as much, I have to spend more time studying, since I zone out and don’t remember what was taught that day. Since history classes tend to be the classes I am least interested in, they are the hardest for me. English has never been especially easy for me, but it is
I was introduced to the performing arts when I was in kindergarten. From the very moment I started, I knew that acting would be the only thing I’d want to do. As a kid, other kids wanted to do the same but eventually
My first experience with a musical production was watching my older brother perform “Guys and Dolls” when he was in middle school (as Nathan Detroit). I acted in a few musicals in my younger years, and helped produce the high school’s Godspell musical this past spring. When I was a kid, my first musical was Power. I held a part in this play as part of the chorus. Later, I played the disciple Peter in another church musical. Although these were not major roles, they still had a big impact on my theater skills. I went on to join the drama club in Middle School. We performed several plays such as “Christmas in Oz”, “Shakespeare Goes to Gravel Gulch”, “Law and Order: Nursery Rhymes