Betty Marie Research Paper

Lynn Simonson is an internationally respected educator of jazz dance and is the creator of the Simonson Technique which is an organic approach to movement that prepares the body to dance in a way that is anatomically intelligent and somatically aware. Lynn was born in Los Angeles on April 24, 1943, to her parents Henry and Louise Simonson. When Lynn was 8 years old, she moved with her family to Seattle, Washington where her father joined the Seattle Symphony Orchestra where he played the violin and her mother opened a dance studio. This is where she began to get ballet training from dancers who used to be part of Diaghllev and Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. When she was 13 years old, she began to teach dance in her mother’s studio where she got introduced to jazz and then went on to be hired as a singer and dancer for Equity stock musicals.

Pohl taught her interpretive dance. By the time she was fifteen, her teachers had taught her everything, so they sent her off to one of the first Off-Broadway theaters. Sokolow attended the Henry Street Settle House, which was the original Neighborhood Playhouse. In 1928, she was given a full scholarship to dance in the special classes of the Junior Festivals Players. Some of her teachers were Martha Graham, Louis Horst, Michio, Ito, and Benjamin Zamach.

And the 50 Shades Of Grey star wore her hair up and let her natural beauty shine through in minimal make-up. American actress and comedian Leslie Mann introduced Dakota Johnson, then took the stage to accept her award, give a hearty speech in that way she thanked her mother and grandmother for "making her the woman she is today." Dakota, who 's been rocking brunette tresses since dock the role of Fifty Shades of Grey 's also thanked her grandma Tippi for being her biggest role model inside Elle 's November issue: "When I saw her in Marnie, I just thought it was such a magical thing to be one way in real life and then be a completely different way [on-screen]." Griffith and Johnson divorced in 1976 just six months after tying the knot. After Griffith married and divorced actor Steven Bauer, she re married the Miami Vice star in 1989, welcoming their little girl that year.

Born in Fairfax, Oklahoma, Maria Tallchief was one of the America’s most known ballerinas from the mid 1900s. She was considered to be “America’s first prima ballerina.” Something very notable about this women was she was from an Osage tribe and she was the first Native American to start a dance career. Maria Tallcheif showed her passion through dance through her performances, her marriages to people of the dance world, and through her persistent teaching to other dancers. Maria Tallchief danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1940s and then became professionally known. In 1947, Tallchief danced with Paris Opera Ballet and was the first American to do so.

It also introduces her to 47 year-old Maurice DuPont, a reclusive, charismatic balletomane who becomes her mentor. Over the course of three years, Mira is accepted into the School of American Ballet, run by the legendary George Balanchine, and eventually becomes one of Mr.B’s girls - a dancer of rare talent chosen for greatness. As she ascends higher in the ballet world, her relationship with Maurice intensifies, touching dark places within herself and sparking unexpected desires that will upend both their lives. She moves, from living with her dad, to California with her mom where, after putting up for adoption the last reminder of her life back in New York, she attempts to start her life over again, leaving behind her memories of ballet and Maurice, going as far as legally changing her name to Kate. In the present day, Mira, now known as Kate, is a professor of dance at a Midwestern college.

The book that I have chosen for this semester was “Life in motion”, an autobiography by Misty Copeland. I personally chose to read this book because it is about a dancer and I am a dancer. This book stood out to me because she is my inspiration and has been for a long time. I look up to her and I decided well, to read a book about my inspiration. Misty Copeland had written her autobiography about her dance experience and more.

Her father frequently played the piano and her nurse ,Elizabeth Pendergrass, would set up plays for the children to act out while she was watching them. In 1908 Graham 's family moved to Santa Barbara, California because Martha 's sister Mary developed chronic asthma. It is known that the air in Pittsburgh was dirty , unhealthy and full of soot from the factories that had been springing up around the area. The air and weather in California was far cleaner, healthier and nicer to live in. Martha did not have a desire to dance till the year 1914 when she got the

So Megan raise with her sister , step father, and her mother, when she with family she got strictly raise by her family. When she was young she has alot of lesson like dance, singging and other stuff that her family want to, after the few lesson she try competiting in the competition that she want to try and then she one several

Fonteyn focus on her entire career with the Royal Ballet. Her debut was as a snowflake in The Nutcracker in 1934. The next year a wealth of dance roles in the standard classics, such as The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, and Swan Lake, became open to the young Margot due to the departure of the great ballerina Alicia Markova. Fonteyn loved to become the romantic heroines. Her first major role was in Frederick Ashton 's new ballet Le Baiser de la Fee in 1935.

Dancer/Photographer/Writer Caitlyn has been doing dance for 11 years and recently made the Miller dance team. She hopes to become a professional photographer,