My guiding question: How did different events, people, places, and experiences throughout history influence current dance styles, techniques, performances, and choreography?
For this inquiry post, I have decided to focus on tap dance. Growing up, tap dance was one of my favourite styles. However, I don’t really know anything about the history of tap dancing. I’m sure that most of us can imagine what tap dancing is, but I’m going to include a video below of […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 8: Tap Dance"Acro dance (acrobatics) is newer style to the dance world, and can be similar to gymnastics or cheerleading. Honestly, sometimes I think that acro is more gymnastics than it is dance. In my experiences with acro, it is hard to choreograph. Blending between acro tricks and dancing isn’t easy, and often looks choppy or out […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 7: Acro Dance"From what I know, concert dance is very much performance based, and focuses more on ballet and contemporary. By making a simple google search, Wikipedia tells me that concert dance is “performed for an audience,” and is “frequently performed in a theatre setting.” (Concert Dance by Wikipedia). From this definition alone, I don’t see much […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 6: Concert Dance"For my fifth inquiry post, I decided to focus on the idea of competitive dance. I have been doing competitive dance since I was 7, and am lucky enough to have continued with this after graduating high school. Personally, I have only ever known the competitive side of dance, and I have varying opinions on […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 5: Competition Dance"There is a diverse variety of different dance styles and traditions that Indigenous Peoples performed in the past and still perform to this day. When researching these styles, I wanted to avoid appropriating Indigenous culture, so I looked for sources that were created or approved of by Indigenous creators. I know little to nothing about […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 4: Indigenous Dance Traditions"For this week’s inquiry post, I decided to focus on Irish dance. More specifically, I wanted to learn about the history of Irish dance, it’s presence on Vancouver Island, and what Irish dance competitions look like. I chose to do a video interview with my fellow classmate, Bridget, because our lecture content from this week […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 3: Irish Dance – An Interview with Bridget Barr-Hoadley"For my second inquiry post, I am going to be researching latin dance styles, and the history behind them. Latin dances are often done in pairs, and are much different than typical Western dance styles. I have never learned any latin styles, but have seen tons of videos on social media as well as on […]
Read more "Free Inquiry 2: History of Latin Dance Styles"To start off my free inquiry project, I am starting somewhere familiar. Today, I will be focusing on the history and culture associated with the style of hiphop. Hiphop is one of the styles of dance I am most educated in, due to the fact that I have been exclusively training it for almost 2 […]
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