Right next to to New York's Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, the building that is now home to LaGuardia Arts was opened in 1984 to bring together two "sister" arts high schools of the day, The High School of Music & Art (started by Mayor LaGuardia in 1936) and the High School of Performing Arts, established in 1947. Prior to the building's completion in 1984, Music & Art was located on Saint Nicholas Terrace and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College South Campus; Performing Arts was located in midtown on 46th Street, both in Manhattan.
The movie Fame and the TV Series Fame both dramatized student life at the School of Performing Arts prior to its merger into LaGuardia High School, and an Off-Broadway show of Fame was produced in 2003-2004.
Alumni from LaGuardia and its two legacy schools, Music & Art and Performing Arts, are active in supporting the students and the school through scholarships and support for special programs, school events, and reunions held at the school and throughout the world. The school's alumni organization has a full-time executive director and offices at the school. It functions as an independent charitable organization organized under the laws of New York.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Knicks City Dancers
The New York Knick City Dancers are a dance team that performs at all Knicks games at Madison Square Garden. The try-out takes place each summer during the month of July and it is a week process. The last day they narrow the try-out down to about 20 girls. Once they are on the team these dancers are obligated to perform at all games and other other different events as well. The follwing is a video of the knicks city dancers and their performance at a Knicks game this past season. This will help you as viewers to get and idea of the styles of dance and the entertaining performances.
Radio City Music Hall
More than 300 million people have come to the Music Hall to enjoy stage shows, movies, concerts and special events. There's no place like it to see a show or stage a show. Everything about it is larger than life.
Radio City Music Hall is the largest indoor theatre in the world. Its marquee is a full city-block long. Its auditorium measures 160 feet from back to stage and the ceiling reaches a height of 84 feet. The walls and ceiling are formed by a series of sweeping arches that define a splendid and immense curving space. Choral staircases rise up the sides toward the back wall. Actors can enter there to bring live action right into the house. There are no columns to obstruct views. Three shallow mezzanines provide comfortable seating without looming over the rear Orchestra section below. The result is that every seat in Radio City Music Hall is a good seat.
The Great Stage is framed by a huge proscenium arch that measures 60 feet high and 100 feet wide.The stage is considered by technical experts to be the most perfectly equipped in the world. It is comprised of three sections mounted on hydraulic-powered elevators. They make it possible to create dynamic sets and achieve spectacular effects in staging. A fourth elevator raises and lowers the entire orchestra. Within the perimeter of the elevators is a turntable that can be used for quick scene changes and special stage effects.
The shimmering gold stage curtain is the largest in the world. For more than sixty-five years audiences have thrilled to the sound of the "Mighty Wurlitzer" organ, which was built especially for the theatre. Its pipes, which range in size from a few inches to 32 feet, are housed in eleven separate rooms. The Hall contains more than 25,000 lights and features four-color stage lighting. And what's a show without special effects? Original mechanisms still in use today make it possible to send up fountains of water and bring down torrents of rain. Fog and clouds are created by a mechanical system that draws steam directly from a Con Edison generating plant nearby.
Radio City is a spectacular place to come and see shows and get ready for a fun filling night!
Dancing with the Stars
Twelve celebrities - six men and six women - attempt to outshine one another on a sixth season of the hit series. The season six cast includes some of our most lauded stars yet: an Academy Award winner, a Tony Award winner, an Olympic Gold medalist, a nine-time Grand Slam tennis champion, and the NFL's current Man of the Year. Six teams will strut their stuff on Monday night, while the other six teams will show off their moves on Dancing with the Stars the Results Show, where for the first time in the show's history, two couples' fates will be determined in a dramatic double elimination.
There are various challenges each week on the show to keep the audience interested in what was going on. Week One, Night One: The men take to the floor first, kicking off the season.
Week One: The women answer the men's challenge.
Week Two: All twelve celebrities - 6 men and 6 women - go head to head on one night!
Week Three: Penn Jillette and Monica Seles have been sent from the floor. Now the remaining ten stars must give it their all in the jive and tango!
Week Four: Steve Guttenberg is gone! The remaining nine stars must now tackle the paso doble or the Viennese waltz in an effort to stay on the floor.
Week Five: Adam Carolla has been banished from the ballroom! The remaining eight stars must shake it on the dance floor in either the samba or the rumba.
Week Six: Priscilla Presley has left the building! The remaining seven stars must attempt their first group performance as well as learn a new dance.
Week Seven: The ballroom says bye-bye to Marlee Matlin, and hello to double the trouble, as each of the remaining six stars must learn two new dances!
Week Eight: Shannon Elizabeth has been sent from the floor! The five remaining stars must learn another set of Latin and ballroom dances to stay in the game.
If you have missed the scheduled show times you can visit the website on google by simply typing in the words Dancing with the Stars. It is exciting once you get into watching it, trust me you won't regret it!
There are various challenges each week on the show to keep the audience interested in what was going on. Week One, Night One: The men take to the floor first, kicking off the season.
Week One: The women answer the men's challenge.
Week Two: All twelve celebrities - 6 men and 6 women - go head to head on one night!
Week Three: Penn Jillette and Monica Seles have been sent from the floor. Now the remaining ten stars must give it their all in the jive and tango!
Week Four: Steve Guttenberg is gone! The remaining nine stars must now tackle the paso doble or the Viennese waltz in an effort to stay on the floor.
Week Five: Adam Carolla has been banished from the ballroom! The remaining eight stars must shake it on the dance floor in either the samba or the rumba.
Week Six: Priscilla Presley has left the building! The remaining seven stars must attempt their first group performance as well as learn a new dance.
Week Seven: The ballroom says bye-bye to Marlee Matlin, and hello to double the trouble, as each of the remaining six stars must learn two new dances!
Week Eight: Shannon Elizabeth has been sent from the floor! The five remaining stars must learn another set of Latin and ballroom dances to stay in the game.
If you have missed the scheduled show times you can visit the website on google by simply typing in the words Dancing with the Stars. It is exciting once you get into watching it, trust me you won't regret it!
Quote of the Day
"I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."
The following words listed above is a quote that was once said by a famous dancer name Martha Graham. When I sit here and read this quote I think that all things and all problems go away when u dance. The music can sometimes be fearful and the expressions may not look so happy, but deep down inside the dancer is telling you how they feel. The feeling of a dancer is inevitable.
The following words listed above is a quote that was once said by a famous dancer name Martha Graham. When I sit here and read this quote I think that all things and all problems go away when u dance. The music can sometimes be fearful and the expressions may not look so happy, but deep down inside the dancer is telling you how they feel. The feeling of a dancer is inevitable.
Catch the Step
Dancing consists of many types of movements. It is the job of a dancer to learn these steps in order to fulfill the requirements in the field of dance. the following explanations are all different steps in which dance consists of. The point of these descriptions is to help you catch on to any of the steps and pick them up by reading the description step by step. I am not going to list all of them, otherwise I would be here forever.
Ball change is a dance move that consists of two steps: a partial weight transfer on the ball of a foot behind or by the other foot, followed by a step on the other foot. This action has a syncopated feeling and counted &1, or &2, or a1, or a2, etc., i.e., the "ball" step splits off the end of a beat. It is used, e.g., in the kick ball change. Basic figure One of several step patterns that characterize a dance and constitute its basis. Sometimes there is no strict agreement as to their number. Usually they are the ones taught at the beginner level. Box Step is a dance figure named so because the steps rest in the four corners of a square. It is used, e.g., in American Style ballroom dances: Rumba, Waltz bronze-level Foxtrot. The leader begins with the left foot and proceeds as follows. Chasse is any of three-step patterns, steps going basically side-together-side. The word came from ballet terminology. Finally the last basic step that I am going to describe to you is the Cross body lead. The Cross-body lead is a common and useful move in Latin dances such as Salsa, Mambo, Rumba and Cha-cha-cha. Basically, the man on counts 2 and 3 of his basic ste does a quarter-left turn, that is 90° counterclockwise, while still holding on to the woman. On counts 4 and 5, he leads the woman forward across him, and he firmly leads her with his right hand on her back, so that she travels across and turns around and faces the opposite direction she was facing. At the same time, the man does another quarter-left turn as necessary in order to follow the woman and face her. At the end of the move, the couple has reversed their original positions.
The Cross-body lead can be done with single-hand or double hand hold, with or without a woman's underarm turn, or leading the woman to do a free spin. These are just some steps of dance mostly the common ones that a lot of people tend to hear about; however, if you would like to learn more about htese particular dance moves they are available on several online dance websites. Just type the name in and it's a click away!
Ball change is a dance move that consists of two steps: a partial weight transfer on the ball of a foot behind or by the other foot, followed by a step on the other foot. This action has a syncopated feeling and counted &1, or &2, or a1, or a2, etc., i.e., the "ball" step splits off the end of a beat. It is used, e.g., in the kick ball change. Basic figure One of several step patterns that characterize a dance and constitute its basis. Sometimes there is no strict agreement as to their number. Usually they are the ones taught at the beginner level. Box Step is a dance figure named so because the steps rest in the four corners of a square. It is used, e.g., in American Style ballroom dances: Rumba, Waltz bronze-level Foxtrot. The leader begins with the left foot and proceeds as follows. Chasse is any of three-step patterns, steps going basically side-together-side. The word came from ballet terminology. Finally the last basic step that I am going to describe to you is the Cross body lead. The Cross-body lead is a common and useful move in Latin dances such as Salsa, Mambo, Rumba and Cha-cha-cha. Basically, the man on counts 2 and 3 of his basic ste does a quarter-left turn, that is 90° counterclockwise, while still holding on to the woman. On counts 4 and 5, he leads the woman forward across him, and he firmly leads her with his right hand on her back, so that she travels across and turns around and faces the opposite direction she was facing. At the same time, the man does another quarter-left turn as necessary in order to follow the woman and face her. At the end of the move, the couple has reversed their original positions.
The Cross-body lead can be done with single-hand or double hand hold, with or without a woman's underarm turn, or leading the woman to do a free spin. These are just some steps of dance mostly the common ones that a lot of people tend to hear about; however, if you would like to learn more about htese particular dance moves they are available on several online dance websites. Just type the name in and it's a click away!
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