Screen Dance Festival: A Versatile Night On Saturday, November 21st, I had the pleasure of attending the 10th annual DeSales University Screen Dance Festival. The evening featured award-winning dance films from the 2014 and 2015 NYC Dance on Camera Festivals. In total there were eight pieces shown: Well Contested Sites, Dervishes, Juice Box Afternoon, Stella and Tom, Escualo, Rules of the Game, Homegoings, and Vanishing Points. The duration of each film varied from under four minutes, to over
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where he played lead roles in theater dramas such as The Miser, The Bourgeois Gentleman, and Tartuffe for Deaf and hearing audiences, and for which he received many honors for his performances. During his years at Gallaudet, Bragg also pursued a verity artistic skills and went on to win the Teegarden
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In the podcast If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS, the first and largest portion revolved around a story discussing a writer, Lindy West, and the trolls that comment on her pieces. The main section of this story discussed one troll in particular who made a fake account as her dead father. She claimed that this in particular was “the meanest thing” anyone had done to her (Glass, Menjivar, Vogt). The troll made a Twitter account called ‘Paul Donezo’ and the biography read “embarrassed
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I attended a small concert on Friday October 13th in Fullerton California at a bar named the Slidebar. The bands that performed were Livication, Special Blend, and the main performance was by Brewfish. These bands are all of the reggae/rock genre with Brewfish also containing a little alternative and pop as well. The Slidebar’s setup is very organized having a stage down a hall in the back room separated from the bar, which makes for a decently spacious event for a bar. The Slidebar’s purpose was
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Power is explored in the two contexts by its assertion and distribution. The value of power is first introduced in Richard’s first monologue in which Richard describes himself as “Cheated of feature by dissembling nature / deformed, unfinished”(I.i.19-20). Shakespeare’s use of symbolism demonstrates Richard’s self-consciousness, as he is aware of his physical appearance, an appearance that was symbolic of evil, as the Elizabethans believed that deformity was a punishment from God. The quote also
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I think the overall theme of the play is that family always comes first, and that you can always count on them. Through the entire play you can see that the family values do not change no matter what the circumstances are. Alice was willing to put true love on hold for her family, and said that she would not ask or want her family to change for anyone. I think that Conlin did a very good job directing the play to convey this message and making it clear that family rules all, in every situation. It
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As an audience member who has never seen A Chorus Line before, I did not know what to expect. I knew the music slightly from hearing it on my Pandora radio station and from clips on YouTube but I had never seen the show completely put together. The show was exciting and fun to watch, and the moment the song “What I did for Love” started and the actors told me what they did for their love, I felt a deep connection with each and every actor on the stage. The song is at the end of the show, but the
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This Sunday I joined the celebrate concert in Transfiguration Episcopal Church. Alternate between chorus singing and singing along. There were about 18 songs total and a story telling along with music. I really impressed by two songs sang by chorus which were “Have Yourself a Marry Little Christmas” and “Duerme Negrito”. “Have Yourself a Marry Little Christmas” written by Ralph Blane (lyricist) and Hugh Martin (composer). This song became famous in the 1940s, when it was sung by Judy Garland in the
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be defined as opposing or fighting unjust, oppressive systems or power holders through action or argument (newtactics). In the film Mao's Last Dancer as well as Cabaret, resistance is displayed through characters actions, but also through dance performance. In both films , dance works as a means of escape, representing one's fundamental individual rights. The dance styles of ballet and burlesque performed in the films, combine art, passion and subject matters into a cultural resistance against autocracy
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The first soliloquy happens after King Claudius, Hamlet’s Uncle and now stepfather, and Queen Gertrude, Hamlet’s mother, ask Hamlet to stop drooping around about his father’s death which happened very recently. Instead of Hamlet, should be in glee in their marriage which they are publicly announcing to the kingdom. This announcement only makes Hamlet angrier which is the main theme in the first soliloquy in scene one act two. Hamlet says how much he misses his father and how hard it is to live
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