Essays Tagged: "Ballerina"

Center Stage.

the director to throw her out. Their third roommate is Maureen (Susan May Pratt), a highly talented ballerina who has been at the Academy since age nine, but who is unhappy and in a career chosen for ... movement must be in order to make it big. The movie accurately portrays the struggles that would-be ballerinas must undergo with their physical appearance, making references to eating disorders.In con ...

(5 pages) 66 0 3.4 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Stanislavski's Theoretical System.

t teachers. 1884 marks the public debut of Konstantin Stanislavski--a name he adopted from a Polish Ballerina in hope of keeping his theater aspirations hidden from his family. In 1888 Stanislavski, j ...

(4 pages) 53 0 3.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Athletes and eating disorders.

ing us with their speed, height of their jumps and their graceful spins. And the beautiful and thin ballerina who seems to capture an audience as she dances across a stage. Many athletes are looked up ...

(7 pages) 136 1 4.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

A report on Edgar Degas. Choosing and describing certain peices from a gallery at the norton simon museum.

Those included paintings and sculptures. The first piece I chose was a bronzed sculpture of a child-ballerina, it was entitled "Little 14 Year Old Dancer". I chose this peice because I like the "un-go ... an Oil painting on a canvas. I chose this painting because I loved it's movement it portrays. Many ballerinas, mostly in pairs, seem to be in the rehearsal hall dancing. In this painting Degas reposi ...

(3 pages) 74 1 3.7 Dec/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

Harrison -- a short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. turned into a screenplay by me -- Great for media class or creative writting class A- paper

apper General, D.M. Glampers."Both Hazel and George are glued to the television, which is showing a ballerina performance. The ballerinas are clearly not too graceful or skilled and are all wearing sa ... orgeYup!George has a pondering look on his face as he watches the TV.George (cont'd)You know, maybe ballerinas shouldn't be handica-A loud smash, like glass breaking accompanies another light flashing ...

(6 pages) 62 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

This assignment dealt with writing two different poems and mixing them together to make one poem. Its entitled "Abstractions"

e world to start anew.The mood soon becomes reckless, As a stork is selling, My mother a necklace.A ballerina walks up, And asks me to dance. But I ask to go pee, And she nails my pants.There up on th ...

(1 pages) 12 0 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Campfire Story

So in curiosity, he peeped through the large keyhole of the door.There in the second room, he saw a ballerina dancing to the music. Thinking that themanager must have forgotten she rented out the room ... ack to bed and slept the rest of the night.Next morning, the man went to ask the manager about that ballerina next door. But themanager was more surprised than he was. "Why, no one's stayed in that ro ...

(1 pages) 31 1 4.5 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Isadora Duncan: The Foundations of Modern Dance - Shows how Duncan was influention in pionerring modern dance. Works Cited page included.

tieth century. Unlike other dancers of her time, Duncan danced with a flowing motion. She was not a ballerina, and greatly disliked watching ballet dancers with their stiff bodies and unnatural Pointe ... t ballet was a strict, unnatural form of dance in which every movement had to be exact and precise. Ballerinas used a sort of sign language or pantomime in order to tell their stories. They wore Point ...

(7 pages) 49 0 4.2 Jun/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Kristina

encouragement cascaded out of her mouth like a waterfall of motivation. She can be as graceful as a ballerina but sometimes she can seem tough enough to look like she can beat every boy on the block. ...

(2 pages) 21 0 4.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Individualism in "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut

t and be the announcer man with energy, but since everyone was the same he just gave up and let the ballerina read the announcements in monotone voice. Now I for one would never want to hear n announc ...

(1 pages) 38 0 1.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Art of Eating Spaghetti

ther, one would have to twirl the spaghetti around and around when using utensils, just like when a ballerina twirls and twirls around an imaginary pole that keeps her body in a perfect stance.Just as ... graceful posture that allows them to elegantly bring the spaghetti to their mouth, just like when a ballerina takes a leap. Getting spaghetti sauce on ones face is a flaw and the only way to correct i ...

(2 pages) 4554 0 2.0 May/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Perfect Lifestyle

limz dance tights, which appeared in Dance Spirit magazine, is no different. This ad depicts only a ballerina's legs, rather then showing her entire body. She wears pointe shoes and a tutu, an image t ... that outward appearances are what matter most. The pair of legs are flawless and skinny, what most ballerinas strive to be. On the dancer's legs are the tights the ad is selling. They are of a light ...

(4 pages) 22 0 4.1 Nov/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Alternative

Athlete's With Eating Disorders

ing us with their speed, height of their jumps and their graceful spins. And the beautiful and thin ballerina who seems to capture an audience as she dances across a stage. Many athletes are looked up ...

(7 pages) 37 0 4.3 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Edward Scissorhands

ecause in this film Edward makes everyone feel special by doing things for them such as sculpting a ballerina out of a tree for Helen and making two swans that form a heart for Joyce. These symbolize ...

(2 pages) 18 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Benefits of Taekwondo

ular as the Korean art of Taekwondo. It attracts many student of various age. It has the grace of a ballerina and flexibility training of yoga, mental discipline of Aikido and defense action of Judo. ...

(1 pages) 4224 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports