Essays on Dance

You’re on a big stage. The stadium is packed with everyone in your city watching. Millions of people are watching you on their televisions, computers, and smartphones. Months of preparation leading to this moment. You finally made it. You’re a professional. A star. Lights are…

Dance can be known as a way of bringing people together. Ideas from the past are the roots of the evolving ideas and movements in dance, which contribute to any social dynamic within each generation. Through the generations of my grandparents, parents, and myself, dance…

Five! Six! Seven! Eight! Pull up, turn out, head erect, toes pointed. Counts and corrections have always been significant factors in my life. Never have I questioned or complaint about the time spent in the dance studio where I now call it me second home….

Dancehall as defined by Donna P Hope can either be a culture that is a space for cultural creation and dissemination of symbols and ideologies that reflect and legitimize the lived realities of its adherents, particularly from the inner cities of Jamaica. Or it may…

The Pole Dance or Pole fitness is a discipline that goes back to the England of the 80s and has more and more followers. Surely when we think of Pole Dance we relate it to places like bars or discos with stripers, in reality nothing…

Dance is an art that allows for expressing ideas through the human body. Dance has the ability to tell a story without words and the extraordinary work of Agnes de Mille is a prime example. Agness de Mille’s heritage was of a storyteller. Her choreography…

The dance styles of salsa developed in the 1920s as various styles such as Mambo, African, and “Son Montuno” came together on the island of Cuba. A studio named the new style “Salsa” and began spreading it through the island clubs. The dancers followed along,…

The grade twelve dance is absolutely the most significant event of your entire existence. It is more important than getting married, having babies, launching a successful career and traveling combined. In fact, if you do not go, you might as well cover your face with…

The Pole Dance or Pole fitness is a discipline that goes back to the England of the 80s and has more and more followers. Surely when we think of Pole Dance we relate it to places like bars or discos with stripers, in reality nothing…

Is Electronic Music Real Music? Some people call it techno. Others call it electro. Many of its listeners call it electronic dance music, or EDM. Regardless of what they may refer to it as, there are many individuals out there who claim that “electronic music…