...Aissata sow Prof. Callon Dance 2303 12/8/14 Reflection paper I came to this class expecting to stand with a group of my class mates and watch the instructor dance while we try memorizing the moves. But it was the total opposite! This class was so different in so many ways. Over the course of the semester, I have learned about different types of dances including hip hop, tap, jazz, ballet and contemporary, Bhangra, Bollywood, Latin, Zumba and much more. My definition of dance before was not what I thought of dance until I took dance appreciation. I always thought dance was using your body to dance to the beat of the music, but it is so much more to that. Dance is actually when its purpose is for dance, it has intentional rhythm, contains culturally-patterned sequences, and contains extraordinary non-verbal patterns. I liked how you were organized and how you structured the class lectures and discussions. When I walked in your class, I was somewhat disappointed because it wasn’t a dance studio, it was a class room. But after you started telling us more about it, and told us how the class lectures will be I started becoming more excited about it. What I really loved about dance 2303 was the group project we did in the middle of the school year. The group I had been paired with was amazing, and I liked how we all worked as a team. We expressed different ideas and each one of us had our own unique way of learning and teaching each other. My favorite part of the whole semester...
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...Memorandum DATE: February 7, 2014 TO: Steven Teh, General Manager FROM: Elizabeth Lee, Chairperson SUBJECT: WORK PROGRESS OF GRAND OPENING OF SRS FURNITURE COMPANY NEW SHOWROOM This memo depicts the work progress of me and my committee members for preparing the grand opening of new showroom, SRS HOME DÉCOR in Bandar Baru, Kampar. Last year, SRS Furniture receives a very good feedback from customer on providing good quality furniture and creates an outstanding sales performance in Ipoh, Perak. Hence, we decided to enlarge our business to Kampar to benefit more household in acquiring high quality furniture. The proposed launching date of our new showroom will be on February 28, 2014 (Friday). The preparation of SRS Furniture Company’s new showroom had been started since January 2nd, 2014. Until today, the work has entered second stage and all works are carrying out as original schedule. Past Progress/ Work Completed (i) Financing Budget On January 3rd, the very first committee meeting had been conducted to discuss the budget needed to fund the overall activities for the event. The budget manager is requested to submit a budget report with each items clearly stated with the actual expenditure amount and has the result that total expenses for the event are RM 200, 000 and it is approved by the Finance Department of the company. The allocation of budget is on refreshment, celebrities and event speaker’s fees, technical equipment and other necessary resources running the...
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...Moore Dance/3rd block April 20, 2012 Dance that changed History For centuries, dance has been a form of communication and has played a major role in many societies. It has become significant to humans’ health, as well as their state of mind. In addition to this, dance has also served as a valid form of social protest and commentary, which enable people to stand up and hold firm in their beliefs. Gerald Arpino, a dancer, choreographer, and director used one of his masterpieces “The Clowns”, as a way to exemplify a social protest. The Clowns was one of the first ballets to address the issue of the nuclear holocaust, which in turn raised eyebrow and served as an anti-war statement. The Clowns juxtaposed the nuclear holocaust with the clown figures to comment on the tragedy and the comedy of the human existence. (Candler 1) It served as a threat because it was against war and everything else that was occurring during the period of the holocaust. Not only that, but this dance, ultimately addressed the issue of universal annihilations. Arpino exceeded the boundaries and expectations with this piece and made a statement, through dance, expressing his disapproval for the matters at hand. The Clowns tell the tale of how one transforms or conforms in the world of fear, such as the nuclear holocaust. The dance was composed to exhibit the fear of destruction and the chance of reformation. The music was done by Hersey Kay and added to the elements of the dance. The ballet...
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...“Dancing amid a thousand faces, her face glows with life… Never before had she danced with such passion. To any other person, she’d come across as someone who’s celebrating life; who’s ‘living it up’ in style… Did the thought ever cross your mind that she’s dancing away the blues? (No way!) She’s neither the ‘Lady in red’, nor is she ‘the girl next door’… She’s just another victim of the ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’; dreaming her secret dreams, craving her secret life…” Why are we afraid of admitting that we are day-dreamers? Why are we unwilling to accept that there’s a little bit of ‘Alice’ or ‘Walter Mitty’ in each of us? Do we fear what people would think of us; how they would laugh behind our backs; or is it simply the pre-conceived notion that “Nobody would understand”? Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to real world! A world where one feels lost among 6.8 billion faces; and finds solace when he just whiles away hours staring at the ceiling fan, ‘pretending’ to sleep. In the real world, things couldn’t get more ‘realistic’ than this… Or could they? “Life is a long-long road and we are but travelers.” And like good travelers who are faithful to their voyage, we must journey on; in search of a niche where we would ‘fit in’, a niche that is symbolic of our ‘selves’. Why aren’t we told to enrich our voyage with experiences as enthralling as the adventures of Alice in Wonderland? Perhaps that is the reason why we fade into a world of our own every now and then. Because the outside...
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...10/27/11 Debate Ms.Nicol Persuasive Speech Dance education is a topic that everyone here should care about. Everybody has heard of the budget cuts, having the dance teachers losing a job to teach students, and to have more space for the dance studio as an outlet. My question for this topic is dance education important to public schools? Dance education is important to public schools, because dance provides benefits for students’ health and well-being. My 3 arguments about dance education are the money from the budget cuts that is ruining our education, having dance teachers losing jobs to teach students, and to have a dance studio for students if there is a problem with teachers, or family members. Dance education needs money for the program to any schools that really want to dance as an art major or minor. It is for people to have jobs as a dance choreographer to teach students how to dance. There wouldn’t be dance education without an outlet for students whether its having stress or family problems. An outlet will be really helpful for the students to do better in their academic classes when they sit down to take a test or a quiz at the classroom, and they’ll be able to dance again by expressing yourself from your body. My first reason why the dance teachers aren’t teaching the students to take dance class seriously, they will give up their jobs, and to lose the arts programs that students need to care about...
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...Unit 4 Project – Music Kaplan University HU300 – Art and Humanities: 20th Century and Beyond March 27, 2012 Limiting ourselves to one kind of music is as detrimental to our growth as if we were never to set foot outside our house and discover the unlimited life experiences waiting out there. (Janaro & Altshuler, 2009). For me music is the best creation humanity has made. It makes me cry if I am sad, dance if I am in a party, smile if it is romantic, sad if I am thinking in a bad love experience, and happy when I am home resting and listen to it. In my personal view, music is one of people’s spiritual nourishment. I listen to music every day and love to sing along to my favorite tunes. Music makes me feel good and can get my mind off things that are bothering me as well! Some music is relaxing while some really makes me more stressed. Music becomes my interest. I like this wisdom, "interest is the best teacher." As time goes by more and more music that I have been listening to, I can sing and understand the meaning of the song that really attracts me. While I am listening to the music, I slowly I begin to figure out my favorite idols and songs. If I listen to some really beautiful melody or rhythms that able to touch my heart, I will find the appropriate spare time to listen and learn how to sing until I have completely understood. My father’s favorite music was the Tango. Every day at five o’clock in the morning he used to turn the radio...
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...has led him to produce a wide range of projects including Installations, Films, and Web based knowledge creation. Raised in New York and initially trained in Florida with Nolan Dingman and Christa Long, Forsythe danced with the Joffrey Ballet and later the Stuttgart Ballet, where he was appointed Resident Choreographer in 1976. In collaboration with media specialists and educators, Forsythe has developed new approaches to dance documentation, research, and education. As for us students, Forsythe as an educator, is regularly invited to lecture and give workshops at universities and cultural institutions. In 2002, Forsythe was chosen as one the founding Dance Mentor for The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. We had the chance to watch one of his choreograph video called “One flat thing reproduced”; in this video gave me a sense of craziness and desperation. One flat thing was a video that truly has to be observed to get the performance in it and the magnificent movements that valet has to offer. It is a completely different horizon to our nature of dance but it also requires a lot of talent and hard work to show off. Forsythe is a guy who knows his work and gives his passion to it in every work of his. Valet takes hard work and year for perfection but so does a good chorographer like William...
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...Nikki Jones Professor French Engl. 1301 April 3, 2013 Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self One's perception of themselves is usually influenced by their own experiences. In Alice Walker essay "Beauty: When the Other Dancer self" she describes herself over coming and gaining acceptance of herself exactly the way she is. She narrates in remembrance of the event that forever changed her and perception of beauty. Walker uses superlatives, Metaphors, and tense throughout her writing to deliver her ever-changing outlook toward her own beauty. Walker describes the accident that happens to her as a child to show that one’s mindset can be altered through an intense experience and how her attitude completely transforms from a arrogant child into a newly reincarnated woman who now sees a new kind of beauty from within herself. She uses different points of her life to develop this very idea in separate comprehensible stages. She brings the scene to life when she tells us how she manipulates her daddy into taking her to the county fair by swirling around, with her hands on her hips, in her pretty dress and biscuit polished patent leather shoes and says '“I’m the prettiest!”' As she parades around using her cuteness for her father's approval. Her attitude is further encouraged by the people of her church. She was always used to hearing “'Oh, isn’t she the cutest thing!' This makes us believe that she is satisfied with her looks and shows us that she is confident with the outer...
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...CREATIVE DANCE History of Creative Dance Creative dance is perceived differently by different sectors of the education system. In many provinces, creative dance is part of the physical education curriculum. More recently, two provinces— British Columbia and Saskatchewan— have considered placing dance under the rubric of arts education. The aspect of creative dance that is emphasized reflects the position creative dance is assigned in the curriculum. When in the physical education curriculum, creative dance lessons typically focus on development of the motor skills involved, with little concern for the experience’s aesthetic potential. In arts education, the primary focus is creative dance’s aesthetic potential. Advocates view creative dance not only as having potential for developing motor skills or aesthetic sensibility, but as a means to improve students’ self-concept and as a valuable component of an integrated curriculum. Upon closer scrutiny, however, these different ways of justifying creative dance may prove contradictory. “Creative dance” is a particular form of dance. This form is typically taught in elementary schools because unlike other dance forms, it does not require years of training. Basically, creative dance involves the use of movement elements to express thoughts and feelings. Dimondstein (1974) expands on this definition when she considers dance to be “the interpretation of a child’s ideas, feelings, and sensory impressions expressed symbolically in movement...
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...Natalie Bean October 15 2012 KNH 110 Video Reflection How the technique seen and discussed in the video relates to choreographed excerpts seen in the video specifically Lamentation. How Martha personal words, and that of those who knew her, helped you better understand what she was trying to do in her choreography, and how she used her technique to facilitate theme? The video that I watched in class had a varied of different movement. The class video had a lot more different dance but I think their dance was structure more. The Lamentation video was an expressionist dance, which was focus on the next movement. The Lamentation video was limited to dance movement because she is stuck in a tricot. This dance expresses her feeling and was kind of telling a story. Dance doesn't have to be defined by gratuitous amounts of movement and this is an amazing form of art. I think Martha was trying to express an idea by looking at something very deep grief or sadness and she's brought it out. Not everybody look at things the same way as others. I know that there are things that are deeply meaningful for other people that aren't so for me. That many others or I don't 'get' something doesn't make it any less valid. If popularity were a measure of artistic validity then Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber would have to be considered the best artistic geniuses of all time. The Lamentation video touches me and brought back memories of a time when I lost a love ones. The way I interpret...
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...has been training in the field of Kathak dance for the past thirteen years. She is currently enrolled as a senior student in ‘ Panwar Music and Dance’ headed by Shri Hemant Panwar and Smt. Vaishali Panwar. She has completed the intermediate level of the program and now is in the progress of doing the expertise level. Since her enrollment in the school, she has had many opportunities to represent the institution by doing performances under her Guruji. Some of these shows include, Shradhanjali, Annual Diwali Concerts, Kathak Mahotsav , and Prabasi Bengali Cultural Shows just to name a few. ‘Panwar Music and Dance’ has also given her the privilege to meet and take classes under Guru Shri Rajendra Gangani, who is currently the head of the Jaipur Gharana in India. Dipa first started her dance lessons from Salina Ahmed Jharna under the institution called Saj Academy of Dance. Her first steps to dance were taught by Salina. She had performed at many events under Saj Academy, namely the annual school events, Masala Mehndi Masti, Mosaic, Toronto Sanskriti Sangstha, Panorama India, Carassauga, and Ratha Yatra, After six and a half years of learning Kathak and Bengali folk under Salina Jharna, Dipa had received her diploma in 2005. To expand her knowledge in the field of Kathak, Dipa also took the opportunity to take private lessons from Alokparna Guha (from Calcutta, India), a well-known teacher/ performer in the field of Kathak Dance. Through Alokparna, Dipa has learnt Kathak...
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...expressed through the form of interpretive dance. With each dance show there’s so much that supports each dancer, each dance number, and the entire production. Between the props, theatre seating, performance space, and costumes, all can help bring out the show as a form of great entertainment and more importantly, a success!! “An Evening’s Dance” was quite an interesting show in the fact that once I arrived, the seating style was much to my liking. In a modified American style seated theatre, I sat on the back section of the theatre with the stage and proscenium arch located in front of me. This helped enhance the dancers since they were the center of the audience’s attention, and provided them depth in the stage in order to add different perceptions throughout the production. For example, the proscenium arch was located near the Grand Drape in the theatre, meaning it comes from both sides of the stage and closes in the middle. The lighting was quite different for this show than others I have seen, the light change periodically with the music to portray moods such as sadness, anger, and happy. Tied to the lighting, was the music and sound for each dance number, with each girls dance moves based on changes in both lighting and sound. In the last dance number, the girls were all set up on stage with the lights off and multiple chairs used as props for the dance. They danced around, on, and even moved the chairs at one point for the dance production. Each girl had a specific...
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...Non-verbal communication (NVC) is the process of communicating through sending and receiving written messages and conveying messages through gestures. The quote, “Actions speak louder than words” clearly explains the meaning of nonverbal communication as well as tell us it's importance in our daily conversations. Nonverbal communication is the most important of all types of communications. It is divided into four basic types – physical, esthetic, symbolic and communication through signs. Physical - includes facial expressions, touch, smell, body movements, etc. Esthetic – includes conveying messages through painting, sculpture, dancing, etc. Symbolic – includes those involved in religion and maintaining status. Signs – includes both mechanical and physical. Our facial expressions are especially important in conveying emotions. One should pay attention to the multiple aspects of nonverbal communication and their relation with the verbal communication. In any interaction, one is likely to get simultaneous messages from a person's eyes, gestures, facial expressions, posture, use of space and touch. This would lead to misinterpretation of the conveyed/intended messages. Nonverbal messages are inherently ambiguous and could be multichanneled too. Hence, it is difficult to decode the nonverbal messages. Therefore, care is to be taken while interpreting nonverbal msesages and new and innovative ways to 'read' the same will have to be developed to prevent unnecessary...
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...able to keep you entertained. It took one month to film and cost $500,000 to produce that one scene. I saw this question and was curious of when this scene would appear and I was surprised to see it was right at the end. The scene follows Jerry through Paris and he runs into a lot of people on his “trip”. It is like Jerry is in this dream/reality recapping his relationship with Lise. There are many types of dancing featured in these last seventeen minutes. From every scene, it is like he enters a different world inspired by famous artists. Jerry is in this constant struggle of his relationship with Lise and tries to win her back with his dancing. It is astounding that no words were sung or spoken; it was just pure musical instruments and dance. There were hundreds of dancers, not just Jerry. It looks very technical with all the dancers, but they all make it look so easy. A giant highlight in that scene is the vast amount of outfits. Their outfits are magnificent and everyone is wearing something very unique to that time period. The person that brought this scene and the whole movie to life was George Gershwin. George Gershwin was the composer for this film. He focused in on both classical and popular genres. He was influenced by French composers of the early twentieth century. His main area of expertise was jazz and most of his movies use jazz extensively. He produced musical comedies in his early life, while his work, Of thee I sing (1931), was the first musical comedy to win...
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...Dogon Mask Dance Dogons are from Mali in West Africa. Dogon masks rank among the most respected within the world of tribal art collections and have influenced such Western 20th-century artists as Picasso and Braque, even the Cubist movement. The mask binds the Dogon people to the celestial world of heaven (where the afterworld exists) and Earth, which provides food, shelter and life. An important Dogon tradition is the Dama or masked funeral dance. By masquerading behind masks, the dancers allow the souls of the deceased to escape to their final resting place and to join the ranks of their ancestors, thereby restoring order to the universe. Participation in the Dama is a great honor as it represents the final step in the passage from boyhood to manhood. Boys eagerly watch the infrequently performed ``Dama``, in anticipation of the day in which they may also participate in the dance. The village Elders, who are too old to endure the physical exertion of the dance, stand on the sideline, play the music, explain the meaning of the various masks, and keep the pace of the ritual going. The Dama is usually performed every five years or so. Another one is the ``Sigi`` The most significant celebration that take place every 60 years. The dancers of the sirige mask are considered the most skilled. They use their teeth to balance the 20-foot (6-meter) high mask, which is carved from the limb of a single tree. Dancers swing the mask in sweeping motions to represent the...
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