dance

I Believe in Dance

It's a funny thing when I say I believe in dance because dance is already a real life sport that a bunch of people love. Including me. But dance is more than just a sport i do just because. It's a passion that I have. And i know that I have the passion because I think about dance all the time. I also dance literally 24/7. For example, I practice ballet at school and no one notices.

I believe in the power of dance. Dance is defined as a type of art that involves a rhythmic movement of the body to music, performed as a form of emotional expression, the expression of ideas, story telling, or non verbal communication. To me, dance is my outlet, my passion, my art form, and how I express what I'm feeling. It's always been a constant in my life; no matter what's happening, what I'm feeling, or how stressed I am, dance has always been there for me. It's my creative outlet.

I love to dance, and I mostly like to dance Hip Hop, and in this essay, I explore the roots of what I like to do best and where it came from. I also am interested in this topic because I wanted to know which culture or cultures started Hip Hop dancing. I grew up looking at my older cousins dancing at school shows or competitions, and I loved it. As I got to middle school, my friends and I decided to make our own Hip Hop dance. Ever since then, I've danced Hip Hop and taken lessons. Many think that Hip Hop dance is something that releases stress. When we dance, we feel it.

What is inspiration for choreographers? I have watched many dance performances, both live and on TV, and I have been moved by what I have seen. While researching the topic or choreography I found out that anything can inspire choreographers. Dance is movement but it can start from many places. The choreographer can see an image, hear music, see a photo, have a thought, or experience anything, and it can inspire them to create a piece of choreography to express how they felt about their inspiration.

The dance concert season here at Judge Memorial has quickly come and gone, and this year lived up to the hype. There was plenty of flare, dramatics, and even back stage controversy, but the dancers performed better than ever. My personal was the couples dance called "genderology", which switched up the roles between man and woman. You could tell how much time was put into not just this dance, but all of them, with all of the complicated lifts and flips that were going on. Even if a couple messed up on a lift, they were able to smoothly transition back into the dance without panicking.

I began dancing when I was five years old, loved it, and here I am 13 years into lessons. I have been encouraged to take my inspiration from the greats like Mikhail Baryshnikov, George Balanchine and Isadora Duncan. However, the dancer who has had the most effect on me is the revolutionary Martha Graham. Graham inspires me for many reasons, including her successful career, her attitude for life and especially her perseverance.

This year for our spring dance concert I am choreographing a dance. My dance focuses on the battle between the body and an invading virus. I have found choreography to be much more complicated than I had originally planned.

It is hard to envision 14 people dancing on a stage, doing your movement, but doing it on different counts, with different places, and different ways of performing it. All in all it is something that takes a lot of practice as well as a lot of patients.

Dance has always been a very large part of my life. I have been dancing since I was three years old and have had the great opportunities to be exposed to many different and unique styles of dance. I have learned traditional African dances, hip hop dances, ballet, modern, jazz, tango, salsa, etc. I have a solid background in dance and am very interested in knowing what other types of dances there are around the world and what the most commonly practiced is. My guess would be that ballet is the most commonly practiced dance style in the world, followed closely by modern.