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American Concert Dance Periods

time to waste. Indeed, nothing could be further from the truth, as is clearly demonstrated by the following four American Concert...

August 2003 Daniel Bolshoy and Julie Nesrallah Concert Report

in guitar at the Indiana University School of Music where he has developed a course on the history of the guitar (DB&JN). Bolshoy ...

Creek and Cherokee Tribes and Traditional Southeastern Dance Decline

In six pages this paper examines the reasons why traditional Southeastern Native American dances like the stomp dance have decline...

The Cakewalk Dance

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...

Overview of the Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago

company (which took on the name Gus Giordano Dance Company) was televised live frequently on WTTW-TV, which was Chicagos public te...

Concert Review and Writer Impressions

what the loss of the deceased means to those who have been left behind, while he simultaneously acknowledges the glory of the afte...

The Alex Blake Quartet in Concert

the floor tom-tom- for dynamic effect" (Alfaro). The group would break into a swing change and bounce back into a "hard Latin chop...

Irvin Mayfield & The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

musicians fellow players gave quiet murmurs of approval or even whooped their appreciation at especially brilliant improvisation (...

Concert Report/University of Michigan, October 1, 2008

there is an intense emphasis on rhythm in this work that conveys a sense of motion and urgency. However, there is also quite a bit...

Does an Economic Crisis Hurt the Entertainment and Sports Industries?

it seemed, the United States was plunged into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. For the entertainment and spo...

Yavapai College, A Jazz Performance

This concert report offers a hypothetical example of how a student might describe a jazz concert that occurred at Yavapai College ...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Dance Music in Musical History

This research paper briefly describes the dance music within the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods. Two pages in length, ...

Public Space Function of the American Street

In five pages this paper discusses the evolving function of the American street as a public space and considers how it may not aga...

Middle East and Belly Dancing

In five pages the cultural value of belly dancing in the Middle East is examined and is also compared with other U.S. dance forms....

Theater and Dance

In twelve pages this paper discusses how dance has been an essential component in theater evolution throughout history in terms of...

Dancers and Variations in Attitudes

also evidence that some attitudinal variations were indeed caused by prejudice. Authors suggests that more research is necessary t...

'Dance' Master Henri Matisse

Any artist may be intrigued by a subject and ask the proverbial - "what if" concerning that subject or idea. Then the question m...

Life and Dance Philosophy of Merce Cunningham

Merce Cunningham's life and dance philosophy that radically innovated dance to an evocative postmodernist expression are discussed...

'Dance' and the Painting by Matisse and Poem by Natalie Safir

hilltop is now shown as much as it is suggested by two rounded green shapes in the lower half of the painting. The dancers barely ...

Doris Humphrey and Her Dance Reviewed

as is further seen in the following: "Welcome as it was, however, this very success meant that young Doris was trapped in a teachi...

The Connection between Traditional Indian Dance and Contemporary Women's Expression

Dance comprises one of Indias most important art forms, art forms which have been in existence for thousands of years. While clas...

Choreographers Charles Weidman and Alvin Ailey

which included Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (Beginnings of Modern Dance, 2004). By the end of the 1920s, th...

Dancing and Fela Anikulapo's Music

This 4 page paper gives an overview of how African beats and music have influenced dance. This paper includes Fela Anikulapo's mus...

Katherine Dunham, Aspects of Her Legacy

This research paper discusses aspects of the career of Katherine Dunham, the first choreographer to research and incorporate Carib...

Paul Taylor - Interpreting Works of Modern Dance

moving about in a city going about their everyday business. In particular, one can observe movements in just the first installment...

Nature Versus Industrialization

their lives and they were willing to offer such gifts to others, symbolic of their natural existence and nature as giving people....

Dance Practice

indications are, as they attempt the dance moves that are described by the instructor, that this is the initial lesson for the mov...

North American Colonial Period, Native Americans and African Slaves

It was also based on the Europeans ability to see Africans as a source for slave labor. Africans who were captured and shipped to ...

1990s' American Economy

of falling prices always followed these periods of inflation associated with war, so that price levels were quite stable (PG). How...