v\“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” Says Martha Graham. This directly relates to my life, sometimes it seems that everything is about dance, dance practice,dance uniforms,dance teachers. I have always loved to dance and I have only been dancing since I was 8 years old. I had no idea what I was doing when I first started dancing. I could barely do any basic steps not even a step ball change or a pivot turn. I was also very bad at listening to the teacher I wanted to do whatever I wanted. But I always enjoyed listening to the music even though I wasn't normally on beat with the music . I started to really love dance at the age of 11 I realized that I loved dance and I wanted to dance as much as possible, although I don't …show more content…
The whole basketball team is staring at you and that can be awkward. Competition season is my favorite part of the whole season I love competitive dances and competitive season is very rewarding. Even if we don't win we still have fun and it's still a rewarding experience. When we qualified for state last year I remember how happy I was and how happy we all were. Our main goal is to qualify for state every year, I learned if the goal last year and from the beginning of the season I worked extremely hard to meet this goal and we did therefore, you would have thought we just won the lottery the way we screamed. I felt very proud of myself that day in Clinton, Illinois when I realized my team and I had made our goal. We stopped at a mcdonald's on the way home to Eureka. A frappuccino,fried food in the air,falling in the elise on the …show more content…
There are some amazing teams so we knew the chance of us winning is very slim ,so that's ok because we still work very hard at our dances since our coaches know that and so do we. Some girls just stare at you with this im-so-good-and-i'm-gonna-win face, the worst part of competitions. Screaming in hallways,turning on the floor,everyone supporting each other,the best part of being on dance team. Everyone understands this which makes our team work very well. Everyone works hard and truly loves to dance. I give up a lot for dance, it truly means alot to me, even if I don't get home until 10:30 and even when i'm as tired as horse I do it because I love dance with all my heart. And the hard work I put in always pays off. When I'm performing I remember all the late nights ,yet I know it was all worth it for those 2 minutes on the stage or
and in front of the whole school during spirit week and international week, without a bit of apprehension. Gaining this confidence was and is the key to victories in dance competitions. Confidence and my familiarity with a variety of dance forms such as hip-hop, jazz, and several Indian classical dances can be credited to my winning first place in a memorable competition, where, for the first time, my two friends and I choreographed the dance piece that we performed. This experience also helped as the same friends and I had 2 weeks to choreograph, perfect, and perform alongside a famous Indian singer as he sang live. These values specifically pushed me advance further into the art form, and were also extremely useful outside of the dance
Some values that make activities a sport would be that it’s time consuming, healthy, and also beneficial to emotional and physical requirements. However one concern that has been on people’s minds was why dance is not always considered a sport. There are various reasons to uphold both sides of agreeing or disagreeing the issue, but not all opinions support the fact with reasonable thoughts. “As knowledge about the body increases, dance training improves and the competition for excellence paired with innovation is greater, dancers bodies are pushed to the limits. The physical ability and disciplines expected of a dancer can be easily related to those
Although I am not a great dancer by any means, I learned through my years of involvement in dance that if you want something you should not let any hardships stop you. This message is what helps push me toward success in my educational
I have been a dancer since the age of 3. My earliest memory of dance was when I was too terrified to go on stage during a recital and I refused to go on no matter how much they tried to push me. Up until the age of about 12, dance had been just a hobby or an extracurricular activity. In fact, I didn’t even enjoy going to dance. I didn’t have friends there and I wasn’t that good of a dancer. It wasn’t until I participated in Dance Bermuda’s summer dance intensive in collaboration with the American Ballet Theatre in 2012, that I realized that I had a passion for dance. At the program, I was exposed to other dancers that were my age and older and most of them were much more advanced than I. So to avoid being the worst dancer in the program, I took to YouTube and watched hours and hours of dance videos. I researched all the ways to improve my ballet technique. I can remember trying to practice my pirouettes in the kitchen and falling onto the table and knocking a whole bunch of things over. I was determined to be as good as the other girls in the program. By the end of the two weeks I was fired up, motivated, and ready to get back to class after the summer.
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.
On April 24, 2014, I watched the specific dance “Against the Grain”, which is choreographed by Sofia Olga Carreras. This dance was performed by many dancers who were Jessica Adams, Nelly Camacho, Leanna Hamilton, Hollee Hennebelle, Heather Horn, Sara Loder, April Maclean, Julie Morris Tessier, Robyn O’Dell, Michaela O’Malley, Alicia Slaughter, and Tracy Tom-Honn. Even though it was a group dance, there still was a solo dancer who was Jessica Adams. The dance was performed in the RCC Performing Arts Center, and the Intersect Dance Theater Co. produced this dance. By watching this creative dance, I saw that the eccentric girl often did different movement from others; eventually, everybody left her, and she lived lonely.
Dancing is a form of art that allows many children to express themselves through body motion while developing many skills. Children throughout the world have been dancing since the day they began walking. When a child to take their first steps and puts together the simplest combination of movements, that would be considered as dancing. Music also plays a major role in the development of children understanding dance, because it is can be used as an accompaniment, and can help children get a better feel for the rhythm in dances. Over the past century educators have come to the conclusion that dance serves as a form of art, and should be taught in public schools and colleges to help the growth in children of all ages both physically, mentally, and academically.
Why are proteins so important? What should I eat as a pre-class snack? How can I become more flexible? These are just a few questions I will answer as you read on. Being a healthy dancer who makes good decisions is the key to becoming a successful dancer. The state of health you are in will affect your overall performance, so taking care of yourself is vital for a good outcome. Sometimes dancers push themselves too far trying to meet their goals faster, but if you are patient and work hard, the results will be stunning.
My most favorite activities include entertaining an audience. Dance has been a part of my life for years. A way to grow and prosper into a better individual, dance involves training and skill. Taking jazz, tap, ballet and lyrical, dance has been a safe home for me to go to in need. During school and outside of school at Robin Dawn Academy, dance helps me in distress as well as work to becoming a better athlete. Cheerleading is also one of my favorite activities as well. Joining my sophomore year, cheerleading involves stamina and practice. Learning how to stunt and cheer on my
Have you ever thought about the history of dance, or how long human life has known it? Dance has been here longer than we actually think. We can take dance back all the way to 600 BC to Now. Dance has made very big changes overtime. It went from doing it in honor for only the dead or religious situations to now just doing it for fun. The way or different moves have also changed over this big course in time. It ways and moves have changed, and the outfits used to perform these different types of dances. There has been clean and dirty dancing all along, some of things in those dances have stayed, others haven’t. Dance has been a very great thing and will stay being a great thing during human life because it expresses a lot. It expresses itself, and a person can express their feelings, in the different kind of moves. It does take time to get to know the moves but you can get through.
A jolt of energy rushed through my body and hit my heart when they call me up to get the team trophy. Not fourth, third, or second, but first place for the third year in a row. Being a captain of a team is an amazing experience. You get to see your team physically, mentally, and emotionally prepare for competition. It's a lot of hard work, but if you try your hardest, make all the practices and have a passion for cheerleading its worth it. Every year we take a few weeks to build a competition routine, the out come is incredible, but the celebration is the best part.
“Dance, the art of precise, expressive, and graceful human movement, traditionally, but not necessarily, performed in accord with musical accompaniment. Dancing developed as a natural expression of united feeling and action.”
My favorite dance on this episode was the contemporary routine performed by stage dancers Derek and Alexia and street dancer Jaja. The dance, as choreographer Stacey Tookey explained, explored the many facets and forms of bravery. This was done so by assigning a character to each dancer: Derek played a veteran, Jaja portrayed a woman leaving an abusive relationship, and Alexia took on the role of a single mother. I thoroughly enjoyed the dance because of the story it was trying to convey. Each dancer dove into character and brought out complex emotions through their movements. They connected profoundly with each of their roles, even though they were portraying people that they could not directly relate to. The performers had to put themselves in the shoes of their characters and depict things that they had never personally experienced themselves. Through their dynamic performance, they showed the strengths of the characters along with their weaknesses and that they were vulnerable yet bold. The dancers also bared soulful emotions in their faces to express their character. Each performer’s hard work and dedication to the piece came through. It was an honest performance, it was not showy or overly dramatic, it was simply raw and full of emotion and passion.
Like any first experience we remember all the details of the event. I remember my first dance class at J in Jazz Dance Studio. I was under the instruction of Julie Pederson who was one of the young faces in my little town of Sierra Vista. I was thirteen and thought that the class was awesome. Now if you are under the impression that I was great the first time around you are wrong. I was the one goofy awkward kid who was there having fun. Julie thought that I would be gone by the end of three months because I couldn’t hack it. She was just glad that I was there having fun and being a good student. According to some experts, since I started after the age of ten I was not supposed to be any good. Just six months after starting, something somewhere happened to both me and my dance ability. I was put on the competition/performance team, and then I just kept excelling from there. Every year or two, I was put on a higher more difficult team.
Preparing for the final evening was as much fun as the event itself. We were a group of eighteen girls. Some, like I, had some background in Kathak while others were dancing in this style for the first time. The teachers worked hard with us over a period of twenty days. They encouraged the team and were patient with us as we fumbled with the steps. It was hard work as the steps of the dance were changed few times till we got the steps all the eighteen girls were comfortable with. We did not grudge the effort and looked forward to performing before the parents.