Dancer College Essays Samples For Students

Many people are under the assumption that art exhibitions must contain paintings, sculptures, drawings, or other traditional forms of art. The artist must use paint, clay, or pencil to capture a feeling, a message, or an appeal, putting it on display for the audience. It is unclear why, but it seems that the audience cannot render a message fit for consumption unless it uses the typical artistic methods. The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology acknowledges there are other art forms. FIT displays all types of artistic fashion as an exhibition to man’s triumphs and failures through time. Two recent ...

Music provides a unique reflection of different issues in the society by use of both lyrics and videos. Music videos help to reinforce the main theme of the song, which may include issues of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, class, and religion. The different elements and styles employed in music videos tell a sort of visual story, which is the case with Grimes’ music video titled Genesis. Directed by Claire Boucher, the video is part of Grime’s 2012 album titled Visions (Battan, 2012). The video, which involves both a suburb and desert scene ties into several ideologies including those about ...

Introduction

Mikhail Baryshnikov. The man, whose name is known to every person, who is inspired by dance, the person who has extremely strong will, the person who is exceptionally talented, the person who is the greater dancer of XX century, the person whose performance has influenced on the development of the world ballet. Mikhails is known all over the world to the unique, powerful and perfect technique. He has performed over 100 classical ballet works. And that is just a part of the list of Mikhail’s achievements.
Mikhail has been dancing since his childhood and nowadays, when he is 65 ...

Jack Cole (1911-1974)

Jack Cole is known as the Father of Jazz Dance Technique and Father of Theater Dance. Cole started out as a modern dancer but during the Great Depression he switched to the jazz style of dancing. He is famous for combining jazz steps with modern and ethnic dances. Some of his famous choreographies include “Man of La Mancha”, “There´s No Business Like Show Busines” and “Les Girls”.

Eugene Louis “Luigi” Faccuito (1925-2015)

Luigi is a dancer whose physical handicap from a car accident made him create a new style of jazz dance. He improvised the jazz steps by incorporating warm-up and stretching exercises into dance routines. He ...

The Little Fourteen–Year–Old Dancer is an adored impressionist piece sculptured by Edgar Degas. Degas presented the piece at the sixth impressionist exhibition in the spring of 1881, and public exhibition he ever did. Originally named by the artist, Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, the piece has become one of the most acclaimed artworks of well-known bronze casts produced after the artist’s death. She did not attract much admiration in her first appearance. Many know Degas as an artist of dance, and some critics originally dismissed his sculptures, claiming that lacked the quality of good art. Most ...

One unique thing about this exhibition is that it’s more than admiring. Just imagine beautiful costumes on the mannequin showing how diverse costume design could be, how they are connected to the performance, designer’s emotions, and the characteristics of different time periods. All the designers have something in common - their appreciation of the elegance, and athleticism of the body’s movement. A good dancing performance is made by good dancers; every dancer is unique and has his own soul, which makes every performance unique, because the time, setting and emotions of each performance can never be ...

Part One

When I play tennis, my body moves with agility and balance on the court. It is worth noting that tennis is not merely an upper-body sport aimed at hitting the ball back over the net. Since a sharp reaction to a ball is required, my feet never stop moving. In tennis, the majority of movements are side to side, and apparently, motor skills are vital. By the way, shoulders do not tilt on volleys and groundstrokes, as the racquet arm maintains balance. A combination of horizontal and vertical movements takes place during the tennis serve, whereas rather smaller joint ...

Introduction

Ballet is arguably one of the most graceful and beautiful styles of dance. It is well known by many people across the world. The art of ballet started out as a kind of dance for the wealthiest families in history. This art was born at a time when Roman and Geek Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries started which revived interest in the arts and in human too. The term “ballet” comes from the Italian word “Balla” which simply means dance. Ballet is a deeply traditional form where fixed steps are in a canonical way linked to each other which can be ...

The Grass Dancer, a book written by Susan Power, who descends from the Native American Sioux people, fascinates the reader with the elaborateness of the plot, complex kinship and thematic saturation. Power weaves a complex story of life and relationships of a young Sioux Harley Wind Soldier living in a reservation in Dakota and struggling to regain his identity. However, the far from being one-sided or hackneyed: the author deploys various techniques to portray the story of the entire Sioux Nation through the array of interrelated characters. However, the main peculiarity of the book lies in Power’s careful ...

Part 1

In Time For Love, the dancers are portrayed as young and full of energy lovers, whose movements are in sync. This light-hearted dance reflects flirting and romance. For example, dancers are gracefully wagging their thighs, and then put their arms together and move gently their shoulders as if they are hugging each other. This movement transforms into delicately stroking the arm, as if giving a cuddle.

In Movin’ Out, dancers’ movements demonstrate their excitement and delight. This expressive performance is comprised of energetic dynamism and enthusiasm. Male dancer spins briskly and then he jumps easily doing the splits. His ...

For this analysis paper, I attended the Utah Art Festival on June 26 of 2015. I have attended several dance performances prior attending the Utah art festival where I attended the outstanding “B-Boy” dance. The current B-Boy dance sequences are not too much different from that of the “street” dances of late 20th century in its structure of the performance, use of body parts, especially feet, and hands. The B-Boy dance sequences have stemmed from the street dances of 1970. This dance was particularly associated with African-Americans and was not considered a respectable genre of dance. The B-Boy dance was ...

As stated by Simone De Beauvoir ‘One is not born woman, but becomes one’, (Beauvoir 295) gender is a socially constructed phenomenon rather than the biological phenomenon. Alice Baker, The true beauty lies in the self realization. It is not limited to the outer part or the bodily features of the woman, but beauty lies deep in the heart of the woman, in her self-realization. Outer beauty is temporary, whereas inner beauty is long lasting. Alice Walker in “Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self” conveys the real definition of beauty describes the gender issues through apparently look small ...

Aesthetics refers to the philosophical comprehension of taste and beauty, especially in relation to the perception and interpretation of appearance. In most instances, people look critically at the appearance of others to judge them, and it affects more than the persons in question. Since time immemorial, women have always put their best feet forward to look beautiful and achieve somehow a “perfect look”. All the same, the concept of beauty has always been misconstrued and many times people tend to look at the outward appearance of clothing, and physical appearance to rate the beauty of a person rather than ...

Overview

One of the most influential rock bands that rose to prominence in the early 2000s is the band The Killers. This group is composed by vocalist Brandon Flowers, guitarist Dave Keuning, bassist Mark Stoermer and drummer Ronnie Vannucci and they are best known for their signature song “Mr. Brightside”, the lead single from their album Hot Fuss. The name of the band is derived from the New Order’s music video for their single Crystal (“The Killers”, 2007).
The band is known for their indie and synthpop vibe, with a touch of New Wave and Heartland Rock. So far, ...

The Metropolitan Museum houses a fine collection of valuable objects which bring us back to the historic moments of the past. One could hardly investigate all the departments in a single day. Basically, it is probably impossible. For this reason, I decided to focus only on the department of Greek and Roman art. The collection consists of more than 17,000 works starting with the Neolithic period to the times of conversion to Christianity in the Roman Empire. The territory that is represented in the exhibition covers Greece and Italy. Specifically, the objects are taken from the territories which ...

Within the frameworks of the art course conducted for us the main focus is put on the course book named “Living with art” by Mark Getlein. The book provides a thorough, fairly detailed but at the same time briefed representation of the key pillars, principles and points of art. Therefore, reading of the book generates an overall picture of artistic theory in the mind of the reader, so that even a person vaguely acquainted with the world of art and its theory is supposed to master those bases and apply them to their understanding and feeling of beauty.

This ...

Ballet dance at its inception was developed as a performance dance in the fifteen century. With time, however, music and choreography was incorporated and the dance itself became popular as a concert dance. In the contemporary times, the Ballet dance has since developed to a level where companies with professional composers and orchestras are trained to perform this kind of dance. On the other hand, Jazz dance was developed many years subsequent to the invention of Ballet dance. Particularly, this dance was developed in the 1900s as a vernacular dance that was performed by the African Americans who were in America as slaves. ...

Introduction

Take modern forms of communication, social media, twitter precisely, choreograph a few communicative moves, add captivating video, and you have a breathtaking dance performance, as a result. During this spring semester of 2014, I happened to attend a dance performance that warranted the description of outstanding. Directed and choreographed by David Roussève, "Stardust" is a trendsetter in the world of dance. Performed in the amazing auditorium at the University of Maryland, the movements, and the accentuations of video and lighting effect were breathtakingly presented, making the 85 minutes the dance lasted worth the sacrifice.

Synthesis and analysis

The dance crew consisted of 10 dancers that made ...

Dance

1- How does social dance reflect the values of American society today? Include social, political, religious, and general cultural ramifications/effects in your discussion. Keep in mind that club dancing is not the only type of dancing that is happening, and that American society covers a broad range of cultural communities. Draw on as diverse a range of examples as possible.
If there is just one thing you could say about the people of the United States of America, it would be that they are diverse. The United States is one of the most multiethnic countries in the world. This translates ...

Introduction

Art in the 20th century can be well remembered with the great activities that were carried out by some of the great personalities as may be found in history. In San Francisco for example, there arose one artist by the name Anna Halprin who made a great debut through her artistic works and performance especially in dance. Dance is an art that involves the movements of the body parts to some form of rhythm or music and is used as a form of expression or public interaction and may be presented as a performance before a particular group of persons either for entertainment ...

‘Obsessions’ is a piece of physical theatre, largely encompassing the medium of dance (Tempah, 2011). The overall theme, as its name suggests, concerns obsession and how people can be affected by it in their day to day lives. The piece incorporates many dance and dramatic techniques. There are several sequences and motifs which are repeated, and a variety of obsessions are depicted. Influences for the piece include Martha Graham and Jerzy Grotowski.
‘Obsessions’ encompasses both ensemble and individual elements. The piece is shaped around a day, starting with waking up and ending in the same fashion.
The dance begins with ...

Introduction

Katherine Dunham is a legendary dancer and choreographer whose contributions to the dance culture are admirable and great. She is an important figure to the dance culture because of her revolutionary and transformative choreography in the 1930’s. She revolutionized dance styles in America by investigating and establishing the roots of African and Caribbean dance and rituals and transforming them into critical creative choreography that resonates with all. She also pioneered the use of ethnic and folk choreography by introducing it to mainstream dance styles and fusing them.
Katherine further founded the anthropological dance movement; showing the whole world ...

The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison is a powerful and paradoxical piece of literature, which profoundly explains the trials and tribulations, both physical and emotional influences, on the Black community in a society living in pretense of newly received freedom. The narrator’s name is not revealed throughout the book, one of Ellison’s strategy of highlighting his invisibility.
At the opening section of the book, Ellison introduces the narrator as a lost and naïve individual, struggling to find his place in the society. He indicates that he had to learn that he was invisible. The meaning behind ...

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Introduction
Dancing is an integral part of human culture. Its importance is not only defined by its entertaining quality, but because dancing has also served as a form of human communication and expression. Dancing is a universal expression, which can be observed in almost every culture around the globe. And just like the oral language, there are dances that are unique to a particular culture as it reveals a particular purpose or way of life. The increasing contact between different cultures, however, has made certain cultural traditions such as dances to become transferred or adopted by another ...

The cultural event features some of the contemporary post-modernism artworks created by various artists. In this exhibit, the pictures present an interesting backdrop that attempts to illustrate the art of the 21st century. The first picture in the exhibit was Amber Garceau’s Dancer (see fig. 1), a photograph that depicts a man in the actual performance of dancing mid-air. The outlines of the right foot indicates the fast movement, the light shining from below creates the chiaroscuro and the shadows that emphasize the dancing male form. The random movement of dancing mid-air is truly a wonderful rendition on ...

1874, Oil on canvas

Degas is often praised with the term Impressionist, as most of them he was focused on capturing the moment, nevertheless, he had a little interest in capturing the play of light or the impression from a landscape, he was fascinated with the movement and seized every moment of delicate dance by ballerinas.
Line: The line of the painting is diagonal, composed of figures inhabiting the painting, it is going from the left bottom corner to the right upper dividing the painting into two color palettes. Diagonal line also conveys a feeling of movement.
Shape: All the figures in the ...

In terms of both our vocations and hobbies, we often aspire to become great. What happens, however, when this very desire consumes and overtakes us? The 2010 film "Black Swam" starring Natalie Portman as a high-profile ballet dancer, shows its viewers that unchecked ambition can be a dangerous and ultimately deadly thing. This message is achieved primarily through the film's use of detail-heavy camerawork, its character depiction, and its embrace of magical realism and distortions of reality. The main character Nina loses her identity, herself to become perfect and on this way to the culmination of her transformation she ...

The goal of this essay is to provide artwork analysis of three contemporary paintings such as Whitney’s Cold Moon Dancer, Sheehan’s I Never Planned to Have You Here, and Dugas’ Wake. These three works of art exemplifies the influences of modernism due to the fact that artists explored different artistic styles in order to portray their subjects from a different perspective. From that point, the resulting paintings were brave, bolder, and revolutionary in a sense that these works broke the traditional art forms of either ‘humanizing’ or illustrating realistic and religious figures. For instance, Whitney’s Cold ...

With the growing popularity of hip hop in the youth culture, there can be noticed a growing number of films appearing in the cinematographic industry depicting the in-demand sub-culture. Being more than just a music genre, hip hop can be fairly called a way of life that thousands of young people found close to their spirit. So the ways it looks like in real life and in movies really differ and thus hip hop is usually a controversial topic for discussion. This paper is thus going to reflect on how authentic hip hop is represented in cinema in terms ...

Form

The time that I attribute a hip-hop dance is when I attended an overnight club with my friends. This type of music, as I learned is unique and invokes its own language, music, dance style and wardrobe styles respectively. Dancing hip-hop requires a closer integration of the body parts in order to invoke the right moves and meaning to the song. The dance complements the social and cultural background of the song, and as such the moves must perfectly complement the song and its historical artifacts. The first element of this dance involves popping, which includes a quick contraction ...

For Huawei, ‘Ballet’ Is the New Cliché

BALLET promotes hard work, passion, commitment, and perfection. So does Huawei.
At least that is what Huawei’s advertising campaign wants you to believe. Although some critics, including company insiders, don’t quite see it that way. They found the advertisement far from uplifting.

But other marketing and product insiders explain the communication and marketing tactics behind their successful advertisement.

Huawei, established in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world. According to The Economist, it overtook Ericsson in 2012. Moreover, it has entered 57 international markets in just six months (PTI, 2015). With impressive results, the company became the first Chinese company ...

Introduction

A theme as related to visual art is an idea passed on by a certain art work. The work may vary from a play to a picture and many others. So basically a theme is in a certain piece of work is identified as like the common idea being expressed in a certain piece of art. The choice of the theme of an artist would basically depict as a certain kind of life at some point. Caution needs to be taken into great care as we may want to associate a theme as the main matter of an art piece. Various ways to address a piece of would ...

I have learnt that, Shakira is a Colombian singer-songwriter, dancer, and choreographer, who spent her childhood in a developing world, where lot of inequality was practiced. People and children were deprived of the basic amenities, and Shakira, a role model for many of these children has been into social service from a very young age, helping them from the time, when she was just eighteen years old. At the age of 4, where children are still in their playgroups, she wrote her first poem, as she was inspired by her Lebanese father, who was a story writer. Apart from singing, she is into various ...

At certain point in life, one may ask, “who am I?” and “how do I define me?” Certainly it is a question that is difficult to fathom, as one cannot determine the nature of him other than what others may seem to perceive. When we were young, our parents tend to call us names based on the things that we as small children often demonstrate to our parents to their amusement. However, as we grow older we tend to realize the sort of stupidity that we do as a child that makes us want to forget those things we did as ...

I am very happy to be here at my cousin Roshini chechy’s graduation party. It is so nice for Roshini chechy to show us what we can do and the way all family members and young people in this church can meet their goals. Clearly, everyone can see that she is a fine example of beauty, talent, style, strength, cheerfulness and class.
She graduated high school with great grades that will take her in studying pharmacology. Soon she will be leaving for Pennsylvania to do her doctoral degree in Pharmacy. She will have to live there in a dorm. ...