Dancing

When going to see a broadway show, audience’s eyes are caught on the extravagant musical dance numbers. For as long as theater has been around, dance has been there along within it. When plays first originated from the ancient Greeks, they incorporated movements in many of their performances. Throughout the evolution of musicals, dance has…

Introduction: Eleanor Torrey Powell, was an entertainer. Commonly known as a dancer and actress, she was the first female to achieve star status as a tap dancer. Powell was named the Queen of tap and the Best tap dancer in the world. Even though she is most known around the world as only a tap…

Dance is a physically demanding sport and art form. Dancers are considered not only performers but athletes as well due to the flexibility, strength, and power needed to perform. Because it is such a high-intensity sport, dancers are often injured. Injury can be fatal to a professional dancing career. As more studies are conducted about…

During flamenco dancing and Feria de Abril, women attendees wear the flamenco dress, otherwise known as “bata de cola”(Schreiner, 1990, pg 171). They adorn their bodies by wearing this dress and accessories to the hair and neck. The dress can be in a variety of bright colors and range from having a short or long…

When it comes to having a great time, staying in shape and perking up the brain chemicals that bring on joy, there are very few activities that can rival dancing. In addition to keeping your bones, muscles and cardiovascular system fit and strong, dancing also keeps your brain strong. It turns out that remembering dance steps and sequences is…

Dancing can enhance neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. Neuroplasticity allows the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain to compensate for injury and disease and to adjust their activities in response to new situations or to changes in their environment. Dancing can reduce the risk…

Dancing in the snowHave you ever awakened to see the frosty chill of a Denver morning where you can look out of the frosted window and see the fresh blanket of soft snow gleaming in the morning light? Well, I have and it fells like paradise. The skiing is brilliant in the wintertime, the snow…

Have you did something that you didnt really want to do, and then later get selected fordoing it? Well, I have. It was another beautiful Friday at Spottsville Elementary School, and ever Fridayat Spottsville was music class. But today we didnt have music class, today wassomething totally different. Our music teacher Ms. Belcher was having…

Most people dance to have fun or to entertain others, but dance can also be used for communication. Dancers express feelings of joy without saying a word. Since prehistoric times people have danced, and there are lots of kinds of dancing. There is folk dancing and religious dancing, popular dancing and theatrical dancing, to name…

Dancing at Lughnasa, a play written by Brian Frier, is a depiction of a man’s memory of his childhood. The narrator, Michael, takes us back to the warm harvest days of August 1936, when he was a seven-year-old boy being brought up by his unmarried mother Chris and her four sisters. The play, through Michael’s…