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What is Blue Room, Green Room and Purple Room?
Each dance studio in our school has a colored door. Blue, Green, and Purple. We have found that this makes it easy for students to know where to go. We have tried numbers and letters and colors are easy, simple and fun.
What is Corps, Principle and Level?
Corps, Principle and Level are dance terms that basically mean Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced. All new dancers are evaluated and place in the class that best fits their skill and performance history.
What is Ballet?
Ballet is one of the few dances that have stayed approximately for centuries not decades and is still magical, spectacular and artistic.
Ballet have its beginning in the Italian Renaissance court, is a formalized style of dance, In France and Russia was developed as a concert dance form. It is distinguished for its techniques style of dance, such as Pointe work, turn-out of the legs; it's graceful, flowing, precise movements; and its ethereal character, with its own terminology. It has been influential as a form of dance globally and is trained in ballet schools around the world. Ballet dance works (ballets) are choreographed, and also contain mime, acting, and are set to music.
The etymology of the word "ballet" is associated to the art form's history. The word ballet comes from French. The French word in turn has its beginning in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance). Ballet finally traces back to Latin ballare, denotation to dance.
Classical ballet
is the most formal of the ballet styles; it uses to traditional ballet technique. There are differences concerning to area of origin, such as Russian ballet, French ballet and Italian ballet. There are two methods Vaganova method and the Cecchetti method.
Neoclassical ballet
is less rigid than the classical ballet and use the traditional ballet vocabulary. The characteristic of neoclassical ballet is that its organization focuses on structure.Contemporary ballet
is a form of dance influenced by both classical ballet and modern dance. Many of its notions come from the ideas and innovations of 20th.Generally it is performed in the opera house, theatres, Broadway like shows, has very good training for its ballet dancers, and is one of the hardest trained, along with modern dance performers and jazz dancers.
What is Jazz?
Jazz has become one of the most popular dance styles in recent years, mainly due to its popularity on television shows, movies, music videos and commercials. People enjoy watching jazz dancers, as the dancing is fun and energetic.
Jazz dancing is a form of dance that showcases a dancer's individual style and originality. Every jazz dancer interprets and executes moves and steps in their own way. Jazz dancing is energetic and fun, consisting of unique moves, fancy footwork, big leaps and quick turns. To excel in jazz, dancers need a strong background in ballet, as it encourages grace and balance.
What is Irish?
Irish dance is a type of traditional dance form that originated in Ireland. Irish dance can be divided between social Irish dance and performance Irish dance. Irish social dances include céilí and set dancing. Irish céilí dances are danced in various formations of couples from 2 to 16 people. Irish set dances are danced inquadrilles, or 4 couples arranged in a square formation.
Irish performance dance is traditionally known as stepdance, popularized by the famous "Riverdance" show. Stepdance is known for its rapid leg movements and stationary body and arms. Solo stepdances can be performed in soft shoes or hard shoes.
What is Lyrical?
Lyrical dance is a dance style that blends ballet and jazz dance. Lyrical is generally smoother and a bit faster than ballet, but not quite as fast as jazz. A lyrical dancer uses movement to express strong emotions such as love, joy and anger.
Lyrical dancers usually perform to music with lyrics...the lyrics of the chosen song serve as inspiration for movements and expressions. Music used for lyrical is typically emotionally charged and expressive. Music may consist of many genres including pop, rock and hip hop. Powerful, expressive songs are often used in lyrical dance to give dancers a chance to express a range of strong emotions through their dancing.
Movements in lyrical dance are characterized by fluidity and grace, with the dancer flowing seamlessly from one move to another, holding finishing steps as long as possible. Leaps are exceptionally high and soaring, and turns are fluid and continuous.
What is Hip Hop?
Hip hop is a dance style, usually danced to hip hop music, that evolved from the hip hop culture. The first dance associated with hip hop was breakdancing. While breakdancing consists primarily of moves executed close to the ground, the majority of hip hop moves are done standing up.
What is Tap?
Tap is an exciting form of dance in which dancers wear special shoes equipped with metal taps. Tap dancers use their feet like drums to create rhythmic patterns and timely beats. The term "tap dancing" is derived from the tapping sound produced when the small metal plates on the dancer's shoes touch a hard floor or surface.
What is Pointe?
En pointe (pointe) means "on the tip" and is a part of classical ballet technique, usually practised using specially reinforced shoes called pointe shoes or toe shoes. The technique developed from the desire for dancers to appear weightless and sylph-like and has evolved to enable dancers to dance on the tips of their toes for extended periods of time. Although both men and women are capable of dancing en pointe, it is more commonly done by women, because men's feet are larger and less delicate than that of women's.
What is Zumba?
Zumba is a Latin-inspired dance fitness program created by dancer and choreographer Alberto "Beto" Perez in Colombia during the 1990s.
Zumba involves dance and aerobic elements. Zumba's choreography incorporates hip-hop, samba, salsa, merengue, mambo, martial arts, and some Bollywood and belly dance moves. Squats and lunges are also included.
What is Pom-Pon?
A pom-pon (also known as pompom) is, at its most basic level, a decorative ball of fluff. Pom-pons may come in many colors, sizes and varieties and are made from a wide array of materials, including fabric, wool, cotton, paper, plastic, or occasionally feathers. While not necessarily the most common usage of a pom-pon, the most noticeable and widely-recognized use is generally in cheerleading and often by fans during other spectator sports.
Pom-pon is originally a term derived from the French word "pompon" and sometimes hyphenated (though possibly erroneously) in imitation of the echoic word "pom-pom". "Pompon" refers to ornamental spheres of fabric, feathers, etc., and, by extension, to a kind of chrysanthemum characterized by small, spherical flowers. This term is often spelled "pom-pon", "pompon", "pom-pom", or "pompom" (see "Variations", below).[1]