Essay Part B: Describe how you overcame this challenge. Tell us how it has shaped you as an individual. (250 to 500 words) While trying out I felt like I was an apple trying to be an orange. It didn’t feel right. We had to learn 10 cheers and two dances. Being a slow learner, I struggled to keep up. I never did anything like this in my life before. Cheering was like a foreign language to me. You had to be stiff like a rock
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IMCC Newsletter 36 Friday 21st November 2014 From the Principal Over the last two weeks auditions have been held for Sounds at Sunset and Escape Festival. This term has seen the largest number of students auditioning to play (and also the highest quality of auditions) that we’ve ever had. It is also fantastic to hear students creating and performing their own original work. We have really enjoyed listening to our students audition, and they are to be congratulated on the quality of their music
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Griffin tells how people in her past make her the way she is today. Many people in my live inspire me to do great things and live up to the potential I have. So many people in my live inspired me and continue to do so as I mature into adulthood. My dance teacher, grandmother, uncle, and mom all inspire me as a young child and they things they said and did are now put in to action as I see myself becoming an adult and on my own. Throughout “Our Secret” Griffin explores the different characters’ fears
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and men and women of her caravan have gathered around the fire to watch her dance. The flames of the fire crackle and hiss as the gypsy girl takes one step, then another. She saunters around the fire like a tiger stalking his prey. She is quiet, steady, and unchallenged by any mortal being. As soon as she takes the first steps of her fire dance, a man creates a rhythmic pattern on the drums to accompany her haunting bells
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When hip hop first started it was a performative, but informal, dance culture. B-boys and b-girls (terms introduced by DJ Herc) would be invited to show off their moves by other people on the street, on the basketball court, or wherever the group happened to be. As the moves became more institutionalized (for example, breaking, popping, and locking), and more and more dancers got caught up in the rhythms of the music, more formal dance venues arose. While these performances were more formal, the competitive
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meaning “dance”. It is a formalized form of dance with its origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th and 16th centuries. It quickly spread to the French court of Catherine de' Medici where it was developed even further. In the late 17th Ballet developed as high art during the reign of Louis XIV, who was totally found of dancing and even gave representations in French Court. Beauchamp, who was the personal teacher of the King, codified the five basic positions of classical dance which are
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What is my Inspiration? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laoVH3ajdHQ&list=UUJSFn_YTKUi0Yto4uvyvHGg Lukas McFarlane. Winner of Got To Dance 2013. From his audition I was captivated by the strength of his movements and how he could still look so graceful, flexed foot and bare. I’ve loved watching his development in dance through his YouTube and how far he has progressed. I think what inspires me the most from watching him is not his sheer technical perfection, nor his complex and advanced choreography
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Dance Dance is an art form, moving the body, often rhythmic and to music. It is in many cultures as a form of emotional expression or exercise, and is sometimes used to express ideas or tell a story. There are many styles and genres of dance. African dance is interpretive. Ballet, ballroom and tango are classical dance styles. Square dance and electric slide are forms of step dance, and breakdance is a type of street dance. Dance can be participatory, social, or performed for an audience. It
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HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING HERE ON THIS NIGHT WITH THE PIRATE QUEEN Have you ever wondered what would transpire if Mulan was dropped in 16th century Ireland? If you have, come out and see Lees Summit High School’s production of THE PIRATE QUEEN. As soon as you walk through the door you are transported to an entirely different time and place. The ship near the doors to the theatre and the concession stand covered in Pirate trinkets set the mood before you even get in the theatre. Alain Boubil,
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Carolina School of the Arts for my Junior year of high school seemed like an inconceivable possibility my mind could not bear to acknowledge. After all, I had left the comfort of my home studio on a risky move to a less popular, but seemingly better, dance studio. Over the past year I had sacrificed my social life to train in the new studio for the dream that one day I might become a professional ballet dancer. I had all the resources an aspiring ballerina could want: a retired ballerina as my teacher
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