Visual and performing arts are the expression and creative visions of people. The visual and performing arts are a resource for many people in many different ways. It enriches our lives and teaches and entertains in many ways. Through dance, theater, painting, and music we learn history from our past. The visual and performing arts deepens the overall knowledge and skills as well as the emotional development of those who participate. It is a source that enhances people creative abilities that
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arts including: music, art, dance, and drama. A haka is a traditional dance performed by Maori men and women. Maori haka is performed for many reasons, celebrating success, welcoming distinguished guests, or as a pre-battle challenge (Maori, People & Culture n.d.). Before the White Men also known as the pakeha descended upon Aotearoa, now known as New Zealand, everything was passed orally from one generation to the next, this meant legends, rituals, songs, dances, beliefs of any kind were
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Swansong was choreographed by Christopher Bruce in 1987 for the London Festival Ballet (now called English National Ballet). It lasts 32 minutes and is a work for three dancers, consisting of two interrogators or guard and a victim or prisoner. The original cast was all-male, but was later performed by all-female cast and a mixed gender cast. However, the two guards cannot be of the same gender while the victim is of the opposite gender, as it would suggest a gender issue rather than a political
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guidance of their pagan gods such as looking for a lost person in the forest, an offering to their gods for a newlywed but the most common time you see it is in the funeral. My comments about it? Crazy and Fanatical the reason is why would I need to dance around a pig several times before killing it and worse even chanting some weird stuff while dancing around like a mad man. But still what can I do? A culture is always a culture and it will remain like that until man knows how to adapt into something
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Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth. This can be purely on an individual level, within a group, or an entire country and culture. Cultural dances are so precious to many civilizations, as they often contain pieces of their history and livelihood that would otherwise be lost. The American Indians are an example of this, as many tribes have looked to dance in the past as a way to convey joy, mourning, and even times of battle and war. The same is true at the roots of many people groups
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Professor Stacy Lu The Pedagogy of Dance October 22, 2014 Teacher Critique: Jazz 1 by Tom Roberts In the following pages I will critique and discuss Tom Roberts’s Jazz 1 class at a dance studio. However, it is important to have basic knowledge of Swain’s credentials. Tom Roberts holds a BFA in Theatre from Salem State University. He has been teaching, choreographing, and performing since 1997. His teachings include Jazz 1 and Musical Theatre Dance at University of Massachusetts Boston
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Konstatin Stanislavski Konstantin Sergeyvich Alexeyev was born in January 18ac63 into a wealthy Russian family. His family were always involved in the theatre so Sergeyvich got increasingly involved from a young age and when he was a teenager, he started working in theatres with the mind-set of becoming an acclaimed thespian and/or a director of theatre productions. He also studied piano and singing, and also performed in amateur plays with his siblings. As a teenager Stanislavski also had an excellent
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them at a party near you, there is only one thing you can do: Avoid at all cost. After you get past the student of the year, you continue on your quest for a great night. You make your way over to the dance floor. It is at the point that you see a man dancing erotically like he had just taken dance classes from Michael Jackson, himself. He twist and turns, jumps up and down, and finishes this amazing move by dropping into the splits and standing up without using his
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approchable to their mates but they share their materials. Then we proceed to games, we start with dancing. We group ourselves and dance the song of Story Book. They know the song and the choreography of it so it becomes easy for us to finish that activity. They request different song; we play Nae Nae and Twerk It like Miley. They are really good dancers. Next, we do Stop Dance. They all got prizes. Next, we give them some foods. While watching them eating, they give us some pick up lines about love life
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Universidad Iberoamericana Electricidad sonora: la música del futuro Javier Sánchez Reyes Taller de Redacción Maestra Rocío Castellano Electricidad sonora: la música del futuro Desde que resonó por primera vez en el oído humano, con su poder para introducirse en la conciencia y crear estímulos, la música ha sido un elemento fundamental para el entretenimiento y placer en la vida diaria de las personas. Esta expresión artística convive y es influenciada por el contexto histórico y social
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