Category: Dance

This is a response paper to a ballet dance event I attended at the Sadlers Wells Theatre in London on the 2nd of April 2011. The title of the dance was Early Works created by Rosa, a ballet dance company belonging to Ann Teresa De Keersmaeker. This was part of a series of dances that…

In the Swan Lake dance, there is a significant number of dance elements of energy, space, and time. The dimension of the dancers movements is simultaneously deep, wide, and high. Their tempo changes from quick to slow, and the energy of the dance is rather delicate and strong. It is possible to identify Swan Lake…

At the beginning of the XX century, great artists like Kazimir Malevich reinvented visual art, as it was believed there were no other directions it could evolve to in a conventional manner. It is doubtful that contemporary art has given up the idea of the importance of the form and only prioritizes the message behind…

Table of Contents Introduction History of Belly dance Comparison between Ghawazi and Modern-day Belly Dance Costumes Movements of the Belly dance Annotated bibliography Introduction The culture of dance has been in existence since time immemorial where different cultures have performed the art for several reasons for instance as a way of celebrating the birth of…

Table of Contents Art Dance Music Work Cited Art Art is a distinctive map of the success of all humankind. It shows how people developed in different eras, what they believed in, how their perception of the world collapsed, changed, and was built again. All discoveries, new ideas, goals, and beliefs are reflected in art.…

Introduction Dance implicates an expression that originates from the human heart and uses gestures and movements, that revolve around daily events to define ordinary and unique experiences for people. African communities highly regard dance as a sacred art that serves as the pivot around which African lives spout. This paper aims at educating people across…

The dance represents a spectacular art of bodily movements and symbolic communication about the human experience. The art of dancing is closely intertwined with the symphonic musical accompaniment and, as a rule, with the lyrical background. In this essay, I will analyze three dances that vary in style, tile of creation, modernity, and audience-orientation. Sergei…

In this discussion post, I would like to provide my understanding of transmission and dance from the provided sources. First of all, the transmission of dance techniques, as discussed within the article by Anthea Kraut, can be summarized as a way of cultivating particular movement patterns through replication (Kraut). Through this replication, a technique will…

No field is exempt from the sociopolitical influence of history in the modern world of neocolonialismeven and especially art. Current scholars and practitioners in the departments of Dance, Performance, and Africana Studies are working to dismantle the colonialist structures that still dictate our perception of what constitutes art and its function in our lives. The…

Art has long been considered a form of undirect self-expression where people could reveal their feelings and emotions on a disturbing matter without directly speaking about them. Naturally, the government realized this and either started to use various forms of art as propaganda to influence society or wholly banned it. Overall, under communist rule in…