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Analysis of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's "Achterland", 2006.
An analysis of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's modern dance film "Achterland," from a dance and filmmaker's perspective.
1,190 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 23.95
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This paper analyzes "Achterland," written by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker. It discusses film techniques, camera placement and the motivation behind the piece, all from the filmmaker's perspective. The paper then examines the dance technique and choreographic standards. Finally, the paper looks at how "Achterland" portrays gender roles and feminism in fine arts.
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"Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's piece Achterland is an award-winning dance film featuring male and female dancers that clearly express the struggle for equality between men and women. The music includes Eight Studies for the Piano by Gyorgy Liegeti and Trois Sonates pour Violon Seul by Eugene Ysaye."
"Filmed onstage with de Keersmaeker behind the camera, viewers are given a great insight into what de Keersmaeker's true artistic vision is. The camera is guided to frame and stress certain aspects of her choreography. It is interestingly done so (i.e. focusing on random body parts) that the viewer is forced to focus on certain things that may not have caught attention otherwise. I was often left wondering if there were specific movements or body parts to focus on, but at times it just seemed like an artistic choice with no real motivation."
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Review of "The Red Shoes", 2007.
This paper provides a review of Michael Powell's 1948 dance film, "The Red Shoes."
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 0 sources, £ 28.95
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In this article, the writer analyzes the film "The Red Shoes". The writer considers a number of aspects of the film including characters, lighting, dance sequences and color. Further, the writer highlights a number of the film's main themes including passion and jealousy. Overall, the writer maintains that the film's appeal should be attributed to the good taste of Michael Powell and the multitude of prestigious aids he employed such as Jack Cardiff, Robert Helpmann, composer Brian Easdale, and art director Arthur Lawson. Their contributions to the film are invaluable, making "The Red Shoes" a special film that offers overwhelming visual and aural sensations. The writer concludes that combined with the complicated philosophical and emotional issues, Powell and company produced a movie that should stand among the greatest in its genre.
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"By the time this plot has come fully to fruition, the film is nearly over. The second act last somewhere around one hundred minutes; it is not hard to imagine a less patient audience being bored with, if not entirely dismissive of, the film's long path toward a culmination that last only a matter of minutes. The Red Shoes, however, is not really a love story at all; the relationship between Craster and Paige is present only to set up some of the larger themes that are all resolved in the end. Thus, the concrete story must be approached as something to be dissected, a narrative with many layers to be pulled away and exposed.
The real goal of Powell's film is to examine the pressures and costs of passion. This theme is focused directly on Vicki Paige; she is the character most influenced by Lermontov and most willing to sacrifice everything for the ballet."
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Rock and Roll History, 2006.
A discussion regarding the macrocosm and microcosm of 'Rock and Roll History in Coming of Age in Buffalo' by William Graebner and 'Flowers in the Dustbin' by James Miller.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, £ 25.95
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This paper discusses the historical research of both Miller and Graebner rely on different macrocosmic and microcosmic approaches for understanding the rock and roll phenomenon. The paper further discusses how the Miller tends to apply a national approach to his understanding of rock and roll through fashion and musical trends, which often involves secondary sources in the media. Graebner also relies on secondary information to a certain degree, but certainly, he seeks deeper empirical data that reaches into the racial and ethnic barriers that Miller does apply.
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"The book review being analyzed here will analyze the microcosm and macrocosm of rock and roll history within Coming of Age in Buffalo by William Graebner and Flowers in the Dustbin by James Miller. By understanding the microcosm of history within a small historical location in Graebner's history, rock and roll is not as generalized as one finds in the more national perspective of music history. While Miller often defines national trends in music and fashion in rock and roll culture, both books offer different points of view on how music history should be analyzed."
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Dance Movement Therapy, 2005.
A discussion of dance as a form of therapy.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper is about dance movement therapy as a form of expressive art therapies. The paper focuses on how dance therapy is about the release of emotional trauma or beliefs as well as feelings that have been suppressed, through appropriate movement. There is a brief history of development of dance therapy as well as a personal story about how fears can limit the ability to dance.
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"The expressive arts offer a multitude of opportunities for the human spirit to achieve balance, freedom, relief and potentially self-actualization. While great emphasis in class has been placed on the spirit of the human condition and spirit of the soul, after a brief discussion about the spirit, this paper will focus on what movement and dance therapy are about, the use of dance therapy as a way of unleashing burdensome emotions and psychological pathology in combinations of the arts and solely using dance and movement as the expressive medium. This paper will also include comments on the generally fear and shame based reasons why individuals might initially shy away from dance and movement therapy."
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Strengthening for Dance, 2005.
Examines the importance of strength when becoming a dancer.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 10 sources, £ 20.95
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To be a successful dancer is to be a strong, flexible athlete who has found a balance between physical and mental strength and made the mind to body connection. This paper shows that strengthening is a key element to finding this mind to body connection and in both the physical and mental training of a dancer. This essay briefly discusses the importance of strengthening in the conditioning of a dancer, the best ways to strengthen and the advantages and disadvantages of strengthening."
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Ballet, 2005.
This paper discusses ballet as a form of dancing and examines its significance.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 36.95
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The paper explains the origin of ballet in relation to semiotics and aesthetics. The paper then discusses its appeal to diverse audiences, using the example of Chinese and Chinese overseas culture. The paper includes notes on the theory of aesthetics and how some may appeal across cultures, as opposed to others. The paper presents ideas of ballet as an institution and not just a form of classical dance, explaining that this depends on location.
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"Marcel Danesi explains that dancing is found in all cultures, sometimes as a 'body art' that can be a form of aesthetic communication. (2004, 61) This form of dance can express emotions, moods, ideas, or it can tell a story. Danesi refers directly to Western classical ballet as his example. This paper tells more of ballet and how it can appeal to people, too, who live beyond Western countries, and those who belong to non-Western cultures. As aesthetic communication, ballet has become part of Chinese culture in particular."
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The Semiotics of Dance, 2005.
This paper discusses the semiotics of dance, with a focus on ballet.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 4 sources, £ 36.95
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This paper looks at ballet as the form of dance. The paper presents the major argument that ballet is used to create ideas of cultural superiority. The paper considers that at the same time this cultural superiority is used to make other cultures look inferior.
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"Art forms are filled with signs, messages, symbols and a whole range of other semiotic features. In Messages and Meanings II Marcel Danesi defines art as, "Disciplined expressive activity that provides the people who produce it and the community that observes it with a range of experiences that might be aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, or a combination of these (Danesi 2004: 332)." Many activities within human societies could be considered art. Singing, music, sculpting, drawing or painting, writing and acting are all activities preformed by societies that are considered art. Each piece of artistic work is filled with symbols, signs and meanings."
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The Multi-Cultural Connection of Dance, 2005.
This paper discusses the multi-cultural connection of dance presented through 'divine love' in Kathak, Middle Eastern and Flamenco dancing.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 20.95
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In this paper, the writer discusses that the Baile, Egyptian Cabaret, and Nritta represent a cross-cultural connection in world dance, which embodies the love that men and women share for each other. In this manner, the religious idioms of the cultures described here represent the manner of movement that depicts love, but through the sacred ideals of commitment and love. The writer points out that although these differ slightly in the accompaniment of dancers, or in the stylistics of the choreography, there is a archetypal cultural unifier that relates the desire and higher love of men and women across the world.
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"This study examines the multi-cultural aspects of "divine love" in Kathak, Middle Eastern, and Flamenco dancing. Within these dances there is a greater blend of different cultural values that make up each of the formats of these dances. In this manner, the chain of influence upon the Kathak, Middle Eastern, and Flamenco dances offer a multi-cultural depiction of how dance is not created within the limitations of geographical boundaries. By understanding the cultural similarities based in these dances, one can realize the power of movement that is a commonality within the religious and divine nature of love. The Kathak dance is a religiously based dance that formally uses the divinity of love for Indian gods, and their dance in the Cosmos."
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Religious Dancing, 2005.
This paper examines the Indian and Indonesian forms of religious dancing.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 20.95
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This paper explains that many dance traditions have originated in India and Indonesia, such as the Bharata Natyam from South India, which had an important historical and cultural influence on the history of India. The author points out that important elements of Hinduism, particularly the figure Nataraja, a form of Shiva, are expressed in Bharata Natyam. The paper relates that this dance, as well as many other religious dances, demonstrate the integral relationship between religious dances and the religious themes that inspire them.
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"Many dance traditions have originated in India and Indonesia, such as the Bharata Natyam from South India, which had an important historical and cultural influence on the history of India. Important elements of Hinduism, particularly the figure Nataraja, a form of Shiva, are expressed in Bharata Natyam. This dance, as well as many other religious dances, demonstrates the integral relationship between religious dances and the religious themes that inspire them. In terms of specific details of Bharata Natyam, it emerged in southern India and developed over the centuries as a living tradition as generation after generation handed it down from parents to children, and gained ascendancy when the Devadasi system emerged in India."
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Ballet and The Ballet Dancer, 2006.
A look at ballet as an art form and the demands ballet has on the ballet dancer.
1,680 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 31.95
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This paper takes a look at the history of the art of ballet, as well as reviews the different types of the ballet dance and the strenuous demands that ballet makes on the dancer. This paper also covers various dance choreographers and their particular styles of dance.
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"Classical ballet celebrates the potential harmony of the human body, the utopian ideal of collective endeavor, the possibility of the interchange between masculinity and femininity. Something of this is what has recommended ballet to the communisms of the USSR, Cuba and China. Beneath the aristocratic tat of the settings and the charming but dispensable never-never of the stories, there is an implicitly socialist vision.
Yet classical ballet must of course always come wrapped in the specifics of where and for whom it is performed, what other values and meanings it is attached to, and these are riven with contradictions. In practice, in Britain, classical ballet is, at one and the same time, elitist and popular, and woman-centered, heterosexist and part of gay male culture, universal and distinctly white. It is all of this at once.
It is selective in part because it is expensive. Not only are sets on a grand scale and not only do most of the classics require large casts, but behind all that there are the years of investment in training. "
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Flamenco Music, 2004.
This paper is a discussion of the modern style of flamenco music.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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The writer discusses the modern style of flamenco music in Spain. In this paper, the writer looks at the performers of flamenco music. The writer examines the impact of flamenco on Western music. Flamenco icons are also discussed and the writer looks at how the songs tell a story.
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"Flamenco is the quintessential music of Spain. It springs not merely from a musical heritage but from an entire way of life. Spaniards the Andalucians and the Gypsy peoples have a long history of music and dance of many different styles. From the familiar works of Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Montserrat Caballe to the lesser known classical composers Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, Fransisco Guerroro and Fransisco GilValencia, Spanish culture has spread its influence around the world. Contemporary icons like Julio Iglasias and his son ... "
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Loie Fuller, 2004.
An overview of the career and art of dancer, Loie Fuller.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 13.95
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This paper discusses the art of dancer Loie Fuller and her illustrious career as a dancer. It looks at Fuller's unique contribution to dance as an innovative blend of the artistic and the scientific. The paper contends that although her dances cannot compare on a technical level with the kinds of special effects that even a straight-to-video movie has today, she is in many ways directly responsible for what we see on both stage and screen.
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"Loie Fuller was not a great dancer. Although she studied dance as a child she quickly gave up on the lessons because she found them too difficult. But this did not stop her from having an illustrious career as a dancer because Fuller did have something wondrous to offer her audiences which was a unique and innovative blend of the artistic and the scientific. Although her dances in which she was partnered with the magic of early electrical lighting cannot compare on a technical level ..."
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Latin American Identity Formation, 2004.
A look at the obstacles faced by Latin America in its attempt to forge its own identity.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 22.95
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This paper presents an analysis of how Ruben Dario's poem "To Roosevelt" and the music and dance form known as "tango" are representative of the Latin American struggle to forge an identity.
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"If the history of Latin America can be described as a search for a viable identity, then without doubt two expressions of that identity come in the form of Ruben Dario's poem "To Roosevelt" and the dance and music form known as tango. Having won independence from, Spain having survived an umber of civil wars and having to contend with its increasingly powerful neighbor to the north, Latin Americans continued to struggle to formulate a viable identity. Because of both internal and external oppression..."
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"Philadanco", 2003.
A discussion on "Phildanco", a dance company in Philadelphia.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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This paper discusses the dance company and school "Philadanco". It includes a discussion on both the school and the company that uses primarily African American dancers. The author also explores the form of this modern dance.
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