Everyone wants to be something when they grow up, but when someone asks them, “Why do you want to be that?”, their answers are a little more dreamy than they are realistic. When I am asked what I want to be when I grow up, the answer has always been, and will continue to be, a professional ballet dancer. And when they ask “Why?”, I could tell them exactly. I want to become a professional ballet dancer because when I was a younger child, before I started dance classes, I saw a ballet and it was like a dream. I have been doing ballet since I was two years old and realized quickly that if I worked hard enough, that dream could be a reality. I have never quit or taken a break because there are many other girls who have the same dream, but just because you dream it doesn't make it so. The hours you must spend every day practicing …show more content…
and rehearsing, blisters, sore muscles, sweat, and pointe shoes. Pointe shoes, and the way my feet feel afterwards… all this is the realistic, and sometimes painful part of what I want to do when I grow up. And one day my dancing might be the thing that gives another little girl the same dream I had once. Because when I dance, I am the stuff of dreams. Of course, every person has short term, mid term, and long term goals that they want to achieve in their life. All of my goals have something to do with ballet. My short term, immediate goals for this year are to: Maintain and improve my grades in school. Today, dance companies not only want a great dancer, but an intelligent dancer as well. Continue my dance training at Pennsylvania Regional Ballet. Audition for, and get selected for a piece of choreography to be performed at Regional Dance America’s National Festival in Phoenix, AZ this coming May of 2017. Audition for Summer Intensive courses including American Ballet Theater in NYC. Miami City Ballet in Miami, FL. Boston Ballet, Boston, MA. Joffrey Ballet in NYC, and Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia, PA where I attended last summer. All courses are five weeks long, six days a week, and no less than six hours a day of training. My mid term plans are kind of the same for the next few years, but improving myself all the time: Continue my academic studies, and audition for Capital Area School of the Arts in theater. (Acting classes will only help my dancing, and I’ve always enjoyed acting in the school plays.) Also prepare for SAT’s and college applications. Continue my dance training at PRB to develop the skills I need to become the well-trained and versatile dancer good colleges and professional dance companies want to enroll and hire. Continue with the Summer Intensives, and eventually prepare for college auditions. My long term plans are to: Audition for at least five college dance programs with The Julliard being my first choice; only twelve women are accepted each year from thousands of applicants from all over the world. Graduate from The Julliard. And audition for jobs with prominent dance companies. Become a professional Ballet dancer! I decided to interview my father, who was a professional dancer with Parsons Dance Co. NYC, and later with Cirque Du Soleil's Mystere Production in Las Vegas, NV. He has recently begun dancing again, and has hopes of making it his profession once more. Question 1: When did you start dancing?
Answer: “I was 14 years old.”
Question 2: How old were you when you stopped?
Answer: “I stopped dancing professionally in 2005, but at the beginning of 2016 I began to dance again. I am now in the process of beginning a professional dance company in Harrisburg and have started planning the Second Annual Harrisburg Dance Festival.”
Question 3: What was the best part of being a professional dancer?
Answer: “In so far as dance, actual dance, is considered I enjoyed partnering more than anything else. The creative process (choreography and improvisation) were equally enjoyable but different than “just dancing”. There was also the touring that I loved.”
Question 4: Did you travel around the world all the time?
Answer: “Yes. I never did make it below the equator, though.”
Question 5: Who or what influenced you to start dancing?
Answer: “It was partially on a dare… Lynn Swann was the wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers and my favorite player. In an interview with him, he revealed that he took class and had performed with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater. Then, I discovered Rudolph
Nureyev.” To conclude, after writing all this down, I am more convinced than ever that I will become a professional dancer. I am aware of, and already doing the work necessary to achieve this goal. With the support and encouragement of my family and friends, I have every confidence in myself that I can, and will make this dream of mine a reality.
... 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.
I considered myself a performer, and after years training as a classical ballerina I expanded into stunting and tumbling. While on tour, I developed friendships and bonds with dancers strengthened by a mutual love for dance, a commonality over the pain our bodies endured daily, and conversations on bruised and broken toes.
...ical and close together. This dance involved a lot of spinning and pelvic motion, which added to the flirtatious mood; all of these movements were done in sync with the tempo of the music. Furthermore, Rhoden did a wonderful job of conveying trust in the relationships. Rhoden did this by having the danseurs catch the ballerinas in motion while in the air. The female dancers did a lot of leaps and sashays, which also added to the happy mood.
There was a collaboration between male and female dancers making dance or show a significant increase. Partnering has become less conventional, utilizing alternate supports in a variety of body orientations (upside down, sideways), with variety also in the energy between the partners which can range from aggressive to sterile.
[6] Cohen, Selma Jeanne. International Encyclopedia of Dance: A Project of Dance Perspectives Foundation, Inc. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.
... we still managed to pick partners and dance. It's the dance that's important not the difference (I shouldn't leave out who leads and who follows. But I speak to that from a strange perspective, since any man who has ever danced with me can attest to the fact that I have never learned to follow.)
does our society fail to respect dance as a sport? Dancing as a career requires an incredible
Fast forwarding to the summer of 2016, I took part in a two week dance program at New York University. At that point in my dance career, I had improved so much and dance had become my life.
Miami Dade College’s very own dance majors, who were challenged by the artistry of guest choreographers as well as themselves, performed The Art of Dance. Watching this performance truthfully made me question if the dancers in this program were being trained properly to be professional dancers
How did ballet come about and what are some of the beginner’s steps? To understand the roots of ballet, one must first look at the roots of dance in general. Dance has roots in early civilizations. People once used moves and gestures to communicate before the spoken language was invented. Many dance terms and aspects of ballet theaters originated in Greece. Ballet has a long history that leads up to the current style and techniques taught today.
Many young girls grow up taking ballet class, but there is a lot more to ballet than just little girls running around in tutus. Many people think that ballet is boring or isn’t their thing but there are many roles that go into putting on a ballet. A lot of work goes into doing a ballet. There are many famous ballets that without the story, the ballet wouldn’t be as interesting. There were many influential dancers and choreographers in ballet. There are many basic steps that frame the technique of ballet. Ballet is very physically and mentally demanding. Ballet is an art that many people misunderstand, but there is so much more to ballet.
I've always had experience in dancing, I honestly think i was born to dance and to have a career in dance because that's all I've ever wanted to do in dance. I've always wanted to dance for the rest of my life and that's what I plan on doing. What will help me be successful in this major is to be taking lots of different dance classes now learning all I can learn and focusing on schooling and my dancing. Also a lot of support will help me to be successful because it's a lot of work and money and my parents have been so supportive and dedicated when it comes to my dancing and they have always motivated me to do what I desire and have helped me to reach it. You don't have to be very qualified to dance, all you have to do is to take the classes and learn the material and it will stick in your brain.
People have a lot of goals they want to accomplish in life. For example, going to college to be a doctor. Or to become a teacher, it just all depends on what your dreams were set to be. For me it’s something
Now that I have told you what has led me to this decision I would like to tell you exactly why I have chosen to become a teacher. I want to become a teacher not because of the salary nor because I want weekends and holidays off; rather, I want to become a teacher because I truly have a passion for making a difference in others lives. I feel that teaching is perhaps one of the most fulfilling roles in life. Becoming a teacher to me means helping to shape another person by teaching and instructing them.
Casey, Ryan. “Why There's Nothing Else Like The Bond Between Dancers.” Dancemagazine, Dancemagazine, 2 June 2017, www.dancemagazine.com/why-theres-nothing-else-like-the-bond-between-dancers-2372571369.html.