Keeping Up With Juliette

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post, Now that I've finished the IB, I thought it would be a good idea to share my coursework with you guys, since I did spend a lot of time writing each of my essays and I wanted to share all my hard work with you. Today I am publishing my IB dance investigation where I compared two dance styles to see what was similar and what was different about each of them. Usually, this report would come with pictures but for the purpose of not getting copyrighted, I didn't include them today. But I do still hope you enjoy reading it because I certainly did, when I looked back at it.   Introduction: In this report I will compare the similarities and differences between street commercial and capoeira dance. I will be exploring the origins, the culture, and the technique of street commercial dance and capoeira in order to determine how these dance styles have evolved and grown in popularity over time. The purpose of this report is to see...

Hello everybody and welcome back to another blog post,  A few weeks ago now, I told you guys in a blog post that I would be taking a dance taster session at Impington Village College with the members of Cambridge Youth Dance Company. You can read that blog post here if you missed it. However, I did end up going to the taster session and overall it was an enjoyable experience. As I mentioned in the last blog post, the session took place between 5pm and 6:30pm on a Tuesday. When I arrived at the large dance studio at 5pm, I was joined by a group of other young dancers who were around my age, although I do believe that I was the oldest in the group. We began the class with an introductory session, where we introduced ourselves and Kate, the artistic director, gave us a brief description of what the company classes entailed. Then we moved onto some improv exercises. Initially, we had to close our eyes and feel and interpret the music in our own different ways. Then, when we were warm,...