At the beginning of the semester I was really worried that with my new job and with a bunch of credits that I’m taking this semester, that I wouldn’t at all be ready with the repertoire that was coming for the next couple of concerts. I wasn’t as ready as I felt I should’ve been but with such little time I think that I did very well with the 8 pieces that I had to learn for the “Hope Springs Eternal” concert. I felt as if I wasn’t ready when we got up to sing because I didn’t really sing the music
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minute performance was very enjoyable. The Perelman Theater is a 650 seat recital hall. The room is designed to create an intimate feel with 3 levels of seating. The room has amazing acoustics. Chairs in the first level of seating are able to retract in order to create a deeper stage, complete fly-loft, and orchestra pit. I sat in the third level of the theater due to my tickets being college priced tickets. Although I was higher up I was still able to be very involved in the performance. I think
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Dance therapists are trained to pay close attention and track their experience on three levels: thinking/mind, feeling/emotion, and bodily sensation. This awareness on our body is such rich resource to enhance a person’s holistic well-being. Moving Encounter practice is created particularly but not limited to foster the embodied process of connecting within us, with another person, and even with the world. This presentation shares a dance therapist’s personal journey of migration internally and her
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As a ballet dancer, each day I strive for perfection. As a girl who is naturally short with short legs, sometimes that can be hard because it can lead to shorter lines, which are not aesthetically pleasing. Grand allegro, or big jumps, is especially challenging because I do my grand jetes higher and in a shorter time frame than the girls who have the long legs. I continuously get corrections to lengthen my lines during grand jetes because I am not in the air for long enough to do so. While I cannot
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as they started to realize that they would have to kill this elephant. I truly believed that these characters embodied people that finally realized that they had to hang this elephant. The character that sold it the most, for me, was Shortie’s performance. Because of his background with Mary, Shortie had the most emotional attachment with the elephant. His comforting last words to Mary before the elephant’s death were very moving and emotional, coming from someone who doesn’t usually get emotional
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writings are further more focusing on those who are disabled, but, has the ability to perform and dance. Whatley states that disability can present some challenges and change the meaning of dance and performance. Whatley wants to focus on questions and theories of critiquing dance and disability performance on screen. She wants to know how disabled dancers depict and embrace their identity through dance, and how this identity can affect the viewers. She simply states, “ my focus is on the screen of disabled
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Hamlet's Soliloquy "To be, or not to be" Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy is possibly one of the most famous soliloquy in the history of the theatre. The words of the soliloquy spark a serious debate and questions for Hamlet about the advantages and disadvantages of existence and whether one should take his or her own life. The questions Hamlet faces was “is this life, or death is where life begins”. It seems like a wall to him, and only by getting through that wall, he will know what’s
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school’s gymnasium that also served as a theatre. It was the only elementary school for miles. They had to improvise. Ominously, the other performances were far from immaculate. Wrong notes were played, and unnatural pauses were present in the performances of those who had played the tunes blindfolded. Something about that stage caused everyone’s performances to fall short of expectations. Being a superstitious 8-year-old, I somehow came to the conclusion that the stage was cursed. As the recital
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This professional style of dance developed from performance to concert dance and is being taught all around the world in different dance schools. Classical ballet is a very complex and disciplined style of ballet that involves detailed core techniques that are practiced by dancers everywhere.’ Alignment’
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When I was told that I would be seeing a theater production originally written as a radio play, that contained more questions than answers, I didn't think that would include a man in a tight spandex and black lipstick. But I guess that only adds to the fact of "more questions than answers". The UW La Crosse production of The Arsonists, written by Max Frisch and adapted by Alistair Beaton is one of the more strange plays that I've seen, but no less interesting. There was a lot of hard work and time
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