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An Essay About Dance

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“Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” Dance is nonverbal and is often used by many people as a language because they often believe that dancing can be a language. Dancer can tell emotions by dancing even beginner and amateur classes. In the world, there are many kinds of dancing, for instance, jazz, hip-hop, ballet, and samba. Each dance has completely distinct parts because all region’s cultures gave influences to each dance style in the past time, for example, classical Japanese dance and salsa. Furthermore, many people dance as an entertainment and exercise. And also, human can trace by practicing dance. Although there are no rules to dance all over the world , human dance for three reasons: working as a professional, learning culture, …show more content…

There are so many stages and dancing companies which people can dance, for instance, DisneySea, Disneyland, Broadway, and Shiki Theatrical Company. Each of them requires different types of the dancer in the show because choreographies and stories are totally distincts. In Disney, Sonia Jesso said, “Her audition included ballet, musical theater and tap.” As a result, people who want to be a dancer in Disney have to practice these three kinds of dance. However, here is a really unfortunate problem in the dancing business. Everyone who wants to perform in the stage or parade can not be a dancer because there are auditions which are proportional with famous and popular boards and associations. This is because most dancers aspire to perform on there. The reason why the dancers want to join these dancing companies or groups even hard auditions is that they really want to success as one dancer. And also, they hope audiences will be happy and excited to watch their performances. In my experiences, when I visited Tokyo Disneyland or Sea, I often watched many shows and parades. I always feel that all dancer seem diamonds because anybody wear beautiful and cool costumes on stages, and dancer`s smiling is always brilliant. It can say similar thing to dancers who work at Shiki Theatrical Company and eleswhere, so these jobs are really challenging

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