Essays On Dance

In the context of 1960s, chain gangs and gang wars are prevalent between Latin and White American adolescents. For the reason that the White American adolescents despise and discriminate against the Latin Americans (particularly the Puerto Rican race), the Whites resort to bully the minorities and they even ostracize the Latin Americans by depriving them […]

THE MOUSE: The mouse contains a small ball inside a casing, which rolls along a surface and makes contact with two rollers either side of the casing one rolling vertical and the other horizontal, these send signals to the computer as they rotate forwards and backwards. The keys on the mouse, when pressed, cause a […]

“Stomp Out Loud” is a musical production. It combines elements of physical movements, musicality, rhythm and pace to bring you the stunning performance of “Stomp Out Loud”. The unique musicality and movement of Stomp lies in the range of everyday objects it employs to achieve its effects: this is a show that finds sound in […]

Vespers is choreographed by Ulysses Dove and means ‘Evening Song’. It portrays 6 aspects of his grandmother. He tries to compose a modern day view of an old person. He used noises during the rehearsal process to help keep the time of the music. The first part of the piece shows spirit and prayer.CostumeThe costume […]

In the Performance Studies course we have been learning about the processes of improvising and rehearsing which has led to three separate performances in each of the three major art forms, Dance, Drama and Music and a final piece integrating the three disciplines. In this essay, I will discuss these processes and look at ways […]

Tango is a dance that started in South America and moved to Europe and the world. It has it start in the low-class society in Argentina and Uruguay and now it’s mostly dance by mid and high societies around the world. This paper will be focusing on a brief introduction about the history of tango […]

Strictly Ballroom Essay Image enables us to perceive the nature of different worlds from various perspectives and angle view. The audience has the advantage of perceiving the nature of the world in each text, from his/her own perspective. Image formulates an understanding about worlds and the use of satire and other language techniques, which allow […]

The cultural impacts of tourism on the host communities The impact that tourism has on the cultural lives of communities is one of the most important issues debated by tourism researchers and academics today. There is an increasingly growing concern that tourism development is leading to destinations losing their cultural identity by catering for the […]

To be able to take part in sport aerobics successfully, different training is required to maintain the fitness needed for the sport. Each training session needs to be specially designed to strengthen particular fitness components, activate different energy systems and use different training principles and methods to help you become fit. In order to see […]

The hot water pulsates on my back like a heart beat after a dynamic performance. My shower is over and my fun will soon begin. My girls called me frantically on the phone screaming about the hottest party in town and I am definitely going to be seen there. I search through my closet to […]

When I went to the adjudicated program 3 of SCADA on Friday April 4th, 2014 1 was blown away. The quality of dance and the quality of storytelling blew my mind away. Even though there were very minimal technical aspects, sometimes less is more when It comes to theatre. Technical theatre doesn’t have to be […]

Kathak which is a major classical dance forms of North India literally means a story-teller or Kathakar. In ancient India, there were Kathakars or bards who used to recite religious and mythological tales to the accompaniment music, mime and dance. These rahapsodists and minstrels were associated with temples and shrines. Their particular dance-forms, which had […]

An Exploration to the History of Bollywood Dance In 2008, the movie “Slum dog Millionaire” inspired a new dance craze, quickly spreading across the globe. Due to the movies, popular hit song, “Jai Ho” and the famous choreographed dance shown in a memorable performance during the closing credits of the film, known as Bollywood dance, […]

This movie is about two different characters namely Black swan and the white swan. The Black swan symbolizes the evil tamed side of humans whereas the white swan symbolizes the untamed and the fragile side of humans. In the movie she repeats these words “I felt it, Perfect, It was perfect” At its centre is […]

By Dr. Mallika Kandali All classical dance traditions of India have evolved for themselves a structural pattern or grammar, whether oral or written, for its sustenance and transmission. The Sattriya dance also, as an enduring tradition, has over the centuries as stated earlier, developed a structural grammar of its own. That structural grammar, which is […]

In our first term of performing arts, our aim was to create four separate performances in dance, drama and music and one that integrated all three art forms. To do this we firstly looked at different skills needed in each art form and experimented with these by doing different practical exercises. This helped us to […]

The Staging was very impressive. Everything was life-sized looking extremely realistic, they even went to the extreme of getting a computer operated helicopter weighing 800kg. The helicopter was so large it would need a 2. 5m cube box. Also the Ho Chi Minh gold statue creates a amazing atmosphere, it is 12ft tall and forms […]

We wanted to come up with something original for our group and have contrast within our performance so it would make our piece different and much more interesting which I feel would help the audience pick up on our hidden message of ‘life’s too short to argue’. We immediately came up with the idea of […]

The definition of actor or actress is; a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. Their main job is to interpret a dramatic character. Actors, like singers, musicians and dancers are performing artists and specialists in the field of entertainment. Actors may act […]

Aboriginal beliefs and cultural influences have existed for thousands of years. With the movement of European settlement to Australia, many Aboriginals ways of life and attitudes were changed to fit those of aliens, the British. The staged drama, ‘Kullark’, written by Jack Davis, represents a time of injustice of a group that were considered to […]

Antonin Artaud was the creator of the ‘Theatre of Cruelty’; Artaud was attempting to change the view of the word and society as he now thought that the world of theatre had become nothing but an empty shell. Artaud believed that the Theatre should affect the audience as much as possible, therefore he used a […]

Frontline is a professional which was re-choreographed, from a Portuguese version in to his own. He uses six dancers, of which there are four females, and two males. Frontlines lighting is structured into lines across the stage, the linear lines of light, helps to tell the story and guide the pathways of the dance. They […]