Group dance

What do you think the dance was about? I watched “Mark Morris Dance Group Spring,Spring,Spring (excerpt 1)” and I thought the dance was about spring and each person represented a flower or plant blooming in the season. All of the colorful pants men were wearing could have represented the different colored leaves on the trees. There was a part in the dance where they were all spinning in a circle and there was a gap between two girls. I found this part interesting because it could have represented

Demonstrate an understanding of the processes involved in creating and developing a group dance performance with a particular focus on choreography Introduction Choreography is the act of creating movement to produce dance. It is a creative process that requires knowledge of how the process functions (Minton, 2007). Smith-Autard (2010) believes there is a vast difference between dancing and choreographing. Dancing can be enjoyed for pleasure and the expression of feeling- but to choreograph movement

Since my sophomore year in high school I have been a part of a very unique dance group. This group is known as Alma Folklorica de Oklahoma, which translates to Fokloric soul of Oklahoma. We are a dance group that performs traditional dances from the country of Mexico. In my hometown there is strong Hispanic population, but more predominantly from Mexico. It first started as a community group, but eventually it became a school program. When it began people in the community still were apprehensive

Skills: A person wanting to learn how to line dance must be willing to learn and must therefore be willing to learn and have patience. Personality Characteristics: 1) Must be Passionate this is vital as it takes passion to achieve your dream. 2) A person should also be dedicated as the dancer must remain focused and dedicated to their goals. Physical health benefits: • Studies have shown that Dancing can help prevent Parkinson Dieses due to the stretching and losing tension of your muscles. •

Many people don’t know what line dancing even is! Line dancing is a form of country and western choreographed dance where a group of people dance in a line without partners and perform repetitive dance steps in a set formation. It is considered to be a form of ‘popular’ dance which means it is a dance done for fun and entertainment. It is however becoming a form of ‘performance’ dance as more people are doing it in competitions and for audiences. Line dancing is exciting and mysterious as nobody

for the Youth Line Dancing is an activity that I recommend and encourage the youth to get involved with. Line dancing is a dance done to country music by a line of people (dancers) without partners, following a choreographed pattern of steps. Line dancing has been around, in one form or another, since before Christ. The type of dancing we do today evolved from the “Contra” dance that is an old style and was very popular from the early 1800’s in the New England States. The style in the 1800’s was that

Over centuries hundreds of years dance has been and always will be a major part of every culture. It is used as a form of expression which incorporates many types such as art, prayer, meditation, fitness, therapy and the list goes on. Dance is not only a resource for such things, but it is also a lifestyle for many, including it in their everyday lives. Throughout history dance was used solely for worship reasons. Dance goes as far back as the ancient Egyptian days; it’s possible it

Section B: Definition: a type of country and western dancing in which dancers line up in a row without partners and follow a choreographed pattern of steps to music. History: Line dancing originated before Christ and it originated from another kind of dance called “Contra” dancing which was done in the New England states in the early 1800s. The “Contra” was set up in such a way that there would be two lines facing each other one line would be men and the other line would be woman. A couple would then

I tend to enjoy dances that appeal to emotion through stories. The dance that I decided to write this paper on is a small group contemporary piece performed by the Abby Lee Dance Company. This dance has a sad theme to it, as it deals with the topic of suicide. They use props including a table and three telephones to add creativity to the piece. This dance is interesting to me because of the affiliation it has to mental illness, which is personally important to me.     This dance, called “Suicide

The Kiowa Ghost Dance, 1894 - 1916: An Unheralded Revitalization Movement, was written by Professor of Sociology at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, Benjamin R. Kracht. A fairly common belief is that the Ghost Dance died out in 1891. Though Benjamin R. Kracht believes that it did not. That variations of the Ghost Dance survived through other tribes and continued on into the early twentieth century. Looking at a number of different sources about the different tribes of this time and looking