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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experience a symphony orchestra concert with my music class on October 5th, 2017. On this certain day, we went downtown to listen to a symphony at the Hilbert Circle Theatre. The star of the show, was Joshua Bell with being the violin soloist in this performance. This was an experience for me to understand other types of music with different sound and meaning. My expectations of this experience where that it was a lot more crowded than I thought it was going to be that day. The audience was surrounding
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In practically any adaptation of an original work, there are bound to be certain discrepancies between the values presented by the original and those presented by the adaptation. Adapting a script of Shakespeare, however, almost inevitably involves a significant loss or change of much of the meaning in the work, as writing text as dense in implicit content as that of Shakespeare is a challenge beyond the abilities of virtually any playwright. As a musical adaptation of Love’s Labor’s Lost, Alex Timbers’s
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Peter and the Starcatcher performed at The Arkansas Rep Theatre was a beautiful and moving performance. When applying thought from the Aristotelian analysis many themes are revealed to the viewer. I had various thoughts about the themes after watching the performance. Self discovery, growing up, and realization are all themes present within the play. Self discovery is a theme found in the play. Peter goes through a journey of discovering his true self. When applying The Aristotelian analysis it
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