In 20th century, the contemporary performing and visual arts has been one of the contested terrains in Los Angeles. The city has noted that the dancing thought is considered one of cultural artifact and that the knowledge legitimation in the city is quite contingent. There is solid proof that Los Angeles responded to societal pressure around the segregated issues. The culture of the city entails the centers and sites for dancing. Some of the common spots for this culture include the Electric Lodge, REDCAT downtown, and Highways Performance Space. Other areas within the city include street corner studios, and rehearsal spaces in their living rooms, the performances spaces which are vastly distributed in the entire basin of Los Angeles. Participants …show more content…
Dancing culture is categorized as one of the alternative geography. The cultural scenarios are found in the following areas that include Los Angeles, which include Pilate training and Ballet, Butoh with Oguri, Khmer Classical Dance, and Hae Kyung Lee. The culture has focused on these protocols where the professionals and amateur understand their stand as agents and creators within their community. The goal of this is to reframe the training scenarios, audience, and performance in casting of daily practices. The role of dance and performance is to come up with civic infrastructure and position dance as one of the deliberate techniques to place urban making. Therefore, the cultural spectrum of Los Angeles comprises of centers and sites for dancing. The dancing culture is significant since is shapes the environment …show more content…
The dancing culture in Los Angeles is a spiritual, political, and social frameworks acting as an archive that preserves the past and look into the future. For instance, the Pilates training have a duality perspective where the associated techniques are considered as disciplinary project and their connection of alibi. In Los Angeles, intimacy of Alibi is gotten from the a shared understanding of the physical limits, metaphors in organizing the body, and sharing of personal stories all of which insert into the technique of an operation setting. The concentration of the methods outline that the movement behavior in dancing that occurs from training has a long-term social effect in Los Angeles. Dancing intimacy is found in spectatorship scenario, which was very common in Butoh Dancer Oguri. The ecosystem of the dancing culture in Los Angeles was altered; this is directed to the entrepreneurial spirit in combination with the rising activities among the commercial houses and the resident theatres that produced an enhanced artistic profile and the organic cultural voices that the people of Los Angeles have recognized as their own. Therefore, many people have participated in researching the professional and amateur community of dancing in Los Angeles to come up with various perspectives on ways that training of dances, conversations, and methods in creating the social and
Dance halls were growing increasingly popular, on average, most people attended at least once a week. Twenty-five percent of San Francisco youths regularly attended their local halls, according to American Mercury magazine. Admission ranged from fifty cents to dollar and a half (McCutcheon 217). Many times women would supervise so that the proper rules of dancing were overlooked. Proper dance rules were that the p...
The dancing community I’ve been apart of since the age of three is one that has consisted of blood, sweat and tears... literally. My discourse community, meaning a group of members who use communication to achieve goals and purposes, is one I have worked hard to be apart of. My Dance studio is its own discourse community. With the movement of a person’s body on and off stage, they are able to express emotions as well as tell a story at the same time. John Swales believes their are six characteristics which makes for a discourse community. These include having the members of a community sharing their own goals, intercommunication, feedback, genre, lexis, and a level of members with a suitable degree (Swales 220-222). When one thinks of dancers,
Dance is an ever evolving form of art; in much the same way that one can categorize and differentiate between eras and styles of architecture one can also do so with dance. These eras at times have sharp delineations separating them from their antecedents, other times the distinction is far more subtle. Traditional forms of dance were challenged by choreographers attempting to expand the breadth and increase the depth of performance; preeminent among such visionaries was Seattle born dancer and choreographer Mark Morris. Mark Morris' began as one of the millions of hopeful individuals attempting to simply make a career in dance; he not only succeeded but managed to have a lasting effect on the entire landscape of dance.
The freedom of the American life and culture of the 1970’s overflowed to make a major impact on music and dance during this period. American culture flourished. The events of the times were reflected in and became the inspiration for much of the music, literature, entertainment, and even fashion of the decade. Choreographers wanted to motivate the dancers to leap into the unknown and experience the contact of dance in their own way.
Ramsay, B. (2000). Dance theory, sociology, and aesthetics. Dance Research Journal, 32(1), 125-131. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1478286
Hispanic American community are rooted from their origins in Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and other Spanish speaking countries that have come together and form a culture in the United State of America. The culture is built in different categories; for instance, religion, social custom, health practices their privacy, and birth. They come from a comprehensive familiar culture that has been called the second in America. Because of their pride and affection they feel unsafe to give up their past. Their notoriety in the United State has been their resistance to assimilate; their guarded image of Hispanic-American culture has been the tongue of flame. However, their remarkable legacy, Hispanics carry from Latin America is not their language, an inflatable skin, but breathe itself, capacity of soul, an inclination to live. The genius of Latin America is the habit synthesis. Their dance is colorful and beautiful. The dance is to keep in touch with their culture, pass down their culture heritage, and to unite people from different ethnicity who share their passion for dance. Through dancing, help in meditation, to promote health, and spiritual well being.
... social dance. Many people in today’s society enjoy social; dancing. Chapter eleven dance concert, properly planning and establishing a dance concert is of the utmost importance. The partnership with the lighting designer usually takes priority over all other factors. One of the most important issues concerning customers has to do with mobility. The dancer must be able to move comfortably in the costume. The task of producing a dance concert is an overwhelming and tiring one. Chapter twelve dance in education and career in dance, many dance educators present the argument that teaching and learning dance as an art form is obviously absent from the American student education. There has always been and always will be people who have a love, desire, and passion to instruct and learn the art of dance, will ensure an important place for dance in higher education.
Ballroom dancing in New York gives underprivileged children the opportunity to be exposed to the arts, which is usually a program that is cut from low-income schools. This program is a part of a fine arts curriculum with a focus on movement/dancing. A fine art curriculum approach integrates the different aspect of the arts to enhance the learning experiences of the students (Agrelo, 2005; “Dancing Classrooms- Mission”, 2015; Gorski
...re of different dance cultures within the vocabulary of their scope, then the results would be so astounding as to give that dancer an unspoken quality distinguishing them from among their peers. Movement knowledge is cultural knowledge and remembering that each culture is beautiful and different in its own way can help create a dancer that will resonate with any audience member.
Every dance that is created by a choreographer has a meaning and or purpose behind it. The dance choreographed could be used to send a political, emotional, or a social message. Regardless of the message being sent, each dance created possesses a unique cultural and human significance. This essay will examine and analyze two dance works from history and give an insight into what each dance work provided to the society of its time.
Anthony Macia’s Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968 (2008) and Ignacio Lopez-Calvo’s Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction (2011) served to, “Shed light on their creations, aspirations, acculturations, and associations, brushing layered details into a historiographic portrait of a generation” . The clean look that Mexican-Americans wore is what gave them the higher profile in society. They were able to steer clear of the stereotypes that depicted them as dirty, greasers, farmers etc… and present themselves as people who were worthy of the California good life. The influence of music is what kept Mexican-American youth off the streets. The start of weekend dances was a way they incorporated themselves into mainstream society, they were not these outlaws who were only looking for trouble. These authors approached the subject socially and culturally, contributing to the debate that the power of expression liberated Mexican-Americans from their
...ating with each other and these are the same values that are being passed on to this generation. The dancers in South-central Los Angeles, uses this form of art to express their feelings and it a form of communicating just like their ancestors did back in there days. At the same time, it allows them to have a much deeper connection with their roots.
Bollywood film has opened the gates to Bollywood dance, creating a popular style that spread throughout the world. This style would not have been able to spread so quickly if it not had been for the familiar themes and culture found in the genre. Because of this diverse make-up, Bollywood dance is being questioned, for it cannot be seen as traditional Indian dance if it is made up of so many different cultures and styles. Due to the creation from a wide assortment of cultures and practices, Bollywood dance has been the subject of a controversy focusing on its authenticity. Although it is not pure Indian movements, it has become the face of Indian dance due to accessibility and familiarity.
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