Dance Bloggers!

Contemporary Dance is a type of dance that was originated from both Europe and North America. It is a combination of different forms of dance including modern dance, ballet, and post modern dance. Contemporary dance can be choreographed into any kind of music and the forms of dance range widely. I feel that contemporary dance is choreographed onto the music, and each dance is original to its music it is being choreographed to. There are several dancers that have made contemporary dance the new form of dance including Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Lester Horton. Contemporary dance is all about the improvisation and the non choreographed movements that flow onto the music.

I was surfing on the net and found a blog site for dancers called dancebloggers.com. This website is inspired to bring people who blog about dance together. I thought this site was interesting where anyone who has an interest in dance could join and write about dance. The bloggers include dance teachers, choreographers, dance students, dance observers, anyone who has an interest in dance. Any blogger can add their dance blog simply by clicking on the add your blog button and fill out some required information. The submitted blogs are reviewed and posted if no violations are regulated. There are also ways in which you can “friend” people that also share blogs on this page. This website allows dance bloggers to connect and share ideas, as well as discover new things they never knew about dance. I feel this is a great way in sharing common interest on the web.

In one of the articles, there is a post about how a ballerina appeared to be too fat for her to be on stage. The post linked to an article titled, “Dance Critic Thinks Ballerina Is Too Fat”. It explained about a former ballerina hitting stage again after a birth to a child and some weight gain. On all the comments below, it talks about how the standards of the ballerina body are unhealthy. Some shared thoughts on their own anorexic and bulimic experiences of when they used to dance ballet. I feel it is unhealthy for girls to stress themselves over how much they weigh and how skinny they must look, and it scares me to how much ballerinas are striving in order to achieve their skinny body.

Here is the website:

http://www.dancebloggers.com/