Diversity In Dance

“I feel as though they do the happy-go-lucky dances and never do the gritty, what’s really going on dances,” says high school junior Jenae Rogers from George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology. The modern world has been put against many global issues: ones that relate close to home, and ones that don’t particularly pertain to us. Despite not being able to primarily fix these issues, we can certainly draw attention to it. Many outsiders feel as though dance is a hobby, however, dancers and dance companies can do a lot to help spread awareness of certain issues such as police brutality, gender workplace diversity, and immigration just to name a few. Dance gives us the ability to share our thoughts on social issues that do not

A major dance to the cast showcased ethnic diversity which is one step further to racial equality in the dance world. Although the casting converged differently this year, the sense of choreography has remained the same- abstract. Macaulay explains “Ms. Lang’s “The Gift” begins (like an advertisement) with taped testimonies from young artists about the rewards of dancing. But it goes on to use its music (excerpts from a Corelli concerto grosso) skilfully, for dozens of dancers (students, studio company, apprentices), with theatrical entrances, sequences, formations and exits.” It is exciting to view more contemporary and inventive additions in ABT, then again, they could use the same audio technique in order to talk about women 's

He states “Mr. Mitchell is well aware that black dancers are still very much in the minority in most of the country 's ballet troupes. New York City Ballet, with more than 100 dancers, has three blacks on its roster. The huge American Ballet Theater has just one - the gifted Carld Jonassaint, recruited from Dance Theater of Harlem.” Many major dance companies that people look to for admiration and reformation struggle to make changes that benefit both dancers and the