What On Earth

Our Performance and competition teams competed last weekend at StarPower Dance Competition. Here are the results! Congrats to all Pride members!

What have you done to celebrate Black History Month? Whether it's your 10th event or your 1st of this month, here's your LAST CHANCE! Come out this Saturday Feb. 28th, to experience Black history through art! Performances from Dance Plus and Arrive Dance Company. Tickets are $10.00, show starts at 7pm. Call Dance Plus at 314-921-7007 (at Florissant Civic)

Monday dancers enjoy your snow day! The studio is closed for tonight 02/16/2015 #LearnAboutAPresident #LearnANewBlackHistoryFact #PracticeANewDanceMove #PracticeYourRoutines or #JustPlayInTheSnow

Today in Black History: James Weldon Johnson writes the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing". With music by his brother, J. Rosamond, the song is first sung by 500 children in Jacksonville, Fla. It will become known as the "Negro National Anthem". #ThrowbackThursday #BlackHistoryMonth #DP #DancePlus #BlackHistoryFacts

ARABESQUE PENCHÈ Arabesque (a-ra-besk)- In ballet it is a position of the body, in profile, supported on one leg, which can be straight or demi-plié, with the other leg extended behind and at right angles to it, and the arms held in various harmonious positions creating the longest possible line from the fingertips to the toes. The shoulders must be held square to the line of direction. Penchè (pahn-shay)- Leaning, inclining. #TermTuesday #AlvinAiley #aliciagrafmack #STL #DP #DancePlus #BlackHistoryMonth

In honor of #BlackHistoryMonth we would like to use our #FunFactFriday to honor the great #KatherineDunham!! Dunham made her name in 1934 on Broadway with musicals Le Jazz Hot and Tropics where she introduced a dance called L’ag’ya. This was based on the rhythms and martial arts dances of the slaves who used dance to develop their stamina in preparation for uprisings against their white masters. Dunham researched dance from Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Martinique for her choreography. She believed that black dance should have equal status with the white European tradition and wanted to trace black dance roots. The technique that she developed also drew on ballet and modern dance. In 1944 she founded a school of dance. At her school students learnt philosophy, anthropology and languages as well as tap, ballet and primitive dance and percussion #blackdancer #dance #africandance #BHM #blackfacts #RP

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The staff at What On Earth would like to wish a good luck to Sophia Lawson who will be performing with #TheMissouriBalletTheatre this weekend in their performance of the #Nutcracker!

No throwback today... #ThankfulThursday Happy Thanksgiving to all of our DP family!

dégagé (day-ga-jay) “To disengage”. Sharp brushes of the pointed foot to develop speed and precision of the feet and legs. #danceplus #danceterms #termtuesday #dp #degage