When I was in 10th grade, I was offered by my dance instructor to be a part of an outreach program where I would help teach dance at the Boys and Girls Club. When I went there, I was shocked to hear some of the stories these kids would tell me. One girl told me her parents gave her a bag of chips for dinner on weeknights because that’s all they could afford. One told me the girls in her grade made fun of her because she only had three outfits to wear to school. One little boy had one parent that was in jail and the other that was an alcoholic and not fit to take care of him, so was living with his grandma temporarily. One day, when I stayed a little extra, the kids were all doing the homework. I saw Tatiana, a little girl from my dance class, doing math, one of my favorite …show more content…
I looked down and realized she was putting random numbers down as the answers and I asked her why wasn’t she trying to actually solve the problems and she said that even if she did try she couldn’t do it. Tatiana always was the quickest to pick up choreography in the dance class, so I knew she was smart and in fact could do it. These kids often didn’t have the parental support needed and would fall behind in school, resulting them not to be set up for a good future. I had been tutoring for pay at my school, but I decided that my time would be better spent tutoring all of the kids at the boys and girls club for free in any subject they would need help in. I asked Mr. Richard, who managed that location of the Boys and Girls Club, if I could start coming in and helping with homework and academics instead of dance and he said yes. Every Wednesday, I started coming in for a couple of hours to help them. A big challenge I ran into was the children not realizing importance of academics. I sat down and told them if they did well in school they could get a scholarship and go to a good college. When that wasn’t enough to motivate them I would bring in
Sofia is a very talented girl who is struggling to make a tough decision, whether to go to the elite boarding school that’s 350 miles away from home or follow the path every young woman in her culture is expected to take to become a good comadre.It all began when sofia was trick-OR-treating she was unsatisfied with what she was getting in her pueblo,so she asked her dad to go to the other side of town where the rich people lived and was happy about what she gotten from the rich side of town. After that sofia wanted to
Last spring I was part of a tutor agency that provided activities to students from 1st – 6th grade. Such agency main purpose was to give students a set of mathematical problems or English pieces of reading in order for them to have an outstanding outcome on these two subjects at school. During my tutoring sessions I had a 4th grade student named Carolina who had a difficult time keeping focus, understanding the concept, and fully interested. She preferred texting in the middle of our session or making excuses to go to the restroom. I honestly felt helpless for her, and I didn’t know what to do and how to help her raise her grades. I realized that our tutoring sessions weren’t any help for Carolina since her mom showed me her grades which got worse. I finally decided to plan my tutoring session with her ahead of time, so I can make it interesting and more effective for her to learn but in a fun way. I choose to get different colorful cards, markers, and everything that could grave attention. When our session started I used those markers and cards to show her how to solve a mathematical problem by color coding every different step of the problem. Later, I asked her to show me the mathematical process she used in a similar problem by using those colorful cards and markers. Apparently, I make her use all these fun utensils that made the learning process more fun and effective. At the end of our session, I gave Carolina a quiz regarding the content we covered, and she did make a progress. I noticed that for Carolina the use of colors at every different step actually made her learn. Maybe it was due to the strategy that I showed her and the ability for her to remember those steps by associating them with each color which I was amazed an...
New Dance is described as a developing art form; this dance was articulated in the early 20th century. According to Chapter 8 in History of Dance book, “the new dance emerged as a response to the ballet that populated the variety shows and music halls, which had a rigid formula of steps and poses” (Kassing). The New Dance was a product of several strands that interlaced together dancers’ studies and backgrounds; these strands and others were woven together in a historical, political, and societal framework. For instance, one strand of New Dance consisted of the concepts, techniques, costumes, and stage settings from around the world. These strands influenced major dancers and choreographers, such as, Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn.
...e, my 6th grade teacher taught us how to learn fractions by using pancakes! Withouth that I would have never have understood the concept.
Learning about Dance: Dance as an Art Form and Entertainment provides visions into the many features of dance and inspires scholars to keep an open mind and think critically about the stimulating, bold, ever-changing and active world of dance. Learning about Dance is particularly useful for those who do not have a wide and diverse dance contextual, such as students in a preliminary level or survey dance course. This book consists of twelve chapters. Chapter one dance as an art form focuses on the basic structures of dance. Dance is displayed through the human body, it has the control to communicate and induce reactions. Dance can be found in many different places, it enables the participants and seekers to touch and knowledge the joy of movement. Dance is discovered as being one of the oldest art forms worldwide. Dance existed in early cultures was recognized in a sequence of rock paintings portrayed dance. Since this discovery of rock paintings, several other forms of art have been found that depict dance. People used rituals in order to worship the gods and believed that the rituals held magical and spiritual powers. During the ancient period civilizations sentient decisions began to be made with regard to dance. Other periods that had an impact on dance were the medieval period, the renaissance period, and the contemporary period. Chapter two the choreographer, the choreographer is a person who comes up with the movements created into a dance routine. The choreographer expresses themselves through choreography because this is their way of communicating with the audience. In order to be a choreographer you must have a passion for dance. Each choreographer has their own approaches and ways of making up a routine. Choreographers ...
I am grateful for the opportunity to have volunteered at the elementary school. It opened my eyes to a few of the problems in our communities. I was able to make others aware of those problems through volunteering and being proactive. I am going to continue with the program for as long as I am able to do so. If only we had millions of these programs across the globe, many other children would be able to benefit and develop the skills to succeed educationally.
While completing this week’s readings on dance, religion, and the nation, one thing in particular stood out: misogyny. In the excerpt of The Unprintable Life of Ida Craddock and “Dance is (Not) Religion: The Struggle for Authority in Indian Affairs,” Leigh Eric Schmidt and Tisa Wenger, respectively, address the way in which sexism persecuted those who participated in religious dance, which were primarily women, and the ways in which the sexualization and racialization of dance made it inappropriate as a religious practice. Women were both persecuted for participating, like Ida Craddock, and used as a justification for the prohibition of dance, particularly in Native American “custom” ceremonies.
I was given a route in Irving to pass out meals and interact with children in low-income apartments. Every child had a unique story to tell. One morning, a little girl with no shoes came running in the rain for a meal. My first thought was, why don’t the parents care for their children? I told the child to put some shoes on next time to prevent her from getting sick or hurt. This child looks up at me and says, “I don’t have any shoes”. My heart sank to the ground. I had this misconception that everyone has things that I take for granted like shoes.
“Sex and the Social Dance” was a streaming video which examined the sexuality of social dances around the world. Regardless of geographical location or decade of popularity, dance conveyed social values. In particular, the sexuality was expressed through physical contact or lack thereof, in the gender roles of the dance, and in the purpose of the dance.
I felt a shock go through my body as I numbed up. “Wh wha what did she want?” My math teacher Mrs. Armstrong was worried about me and the fact that I do all the work in class and homework and when it comes time to take a test I fail. My teacher was willing to let me retake my test.
The Northern Territory is known for its culturally diverse population and some would say it is the ‘multicultural hub’ of Australia. With all of these cultures comes distinctive customs and traditions. Throughout history dance has been used to help people develop a sense of identity, the younger generations are also taught social patterns and values through the different dances. The significance of these traditional dances was to reinforce and celebrate cultural law and practices including the celebration of the passage from child to adulthood or spiritual worship. The predominantly Western culture in Australia often causes minority groups to struggle for recognition regarding their beliefs and traditions. This is parallel to the Australian dance industry, where many cultural dance groups feel they have to justify who they are and are often
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.
Ever since I was merely five years old, I have always been in love with dance and mathematics. Math has always been my favorite subject in school, and my favorite time of the day has always been dance, where I can let my emotions out on the dance floor. Around high school, however, is when I determinately took notice that there is a possible connection between the work I perform in both of these areas. I realized that when I dance, I create shapes, patterns, angles and combinations, comparable to the ones I engender in mathematics.
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.
“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.”