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The James Parker Middle School dance shooting was an incident that occurred on April 24, 1998, at a banquet facility in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, United States. Andrew Jerome Wurst, 14, fatally shot 48-year-old John Gillette and wounded another teacher and two students [1] at Nick's Place, a nearby banquet hall [2] during an 8th-grade dinner dance.
The education division of the National Endowment for the Humanities has prepared a lesson plan for schools asking whether "robber baron" or "captain of industry" is the better terminology. The lesson states that it attempts to help students "establish a distinction between robber barons and captains of industry.
Irmgard Bartenieff (February 24, 1900 – August 27, 1981) was a German-born American dance theorist, dancer, choreographer, physical therapist, and a leading pioneer of dance therapy. A student of Rudolf Laban , she pursued cross-cultural dance analysis, and generated a new vision of possibilities for human movement and movement training.
Solo dance – a dance danced by an individual dancing alone. Partner dance – dance with just 2 dancers, dancing together. In most partner dances, one, typically a man, is the leader; the other, typically a woman, is the follower. As a rule, they maintain connection with each other. In some dances the connection is loose and called dance ...
Dance workshops generally go from a day to a week, often in Summer, and offer a variety of dancers an opportunity to hone their skills. [7] Dance intensives are generally for higher-level dancers. They have a more focused lesson plan than workshops, and last between two weeks and a month. [7]
Eighth grade (also 8th Grade or Grade 8) is the eighth year of formal or compulsory education in the United States of America. The eighth grade is the second, third, or fourth (and typically final) year of middle school. Students in eighth grade are usually 13–14 years old. Different terms and numbers are used in other parts of the world.
The Gaga movement language was created by Ohad Naharin, former Martha Graham dancer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company (1990-2018), and has been further developed in relation to Naharin's research in dance and choreography. Naharin created Gaga as a reaction to a back injury he was experiencing.
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks is a 2001 play by American playwright Richard Alfieri. [1] It is a play with only two characters : Lily Harrison, the formidable widow of a Baptist minister, and Michael Minetti, a gay and acerbic dance instructor hired to give her dancing lessons. [ 2 ]