Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Do you get different tutus when at different stages, or different dances?

Do you get different tutus when at different stages, or different dances?
This is a question I has when I was learning about tutus. I think that it is with diffrent stages, but i'm not sure. The book i read it seemed like the diffrent stages.


Bodies Exibit

Today, November 8th, I will be writing about the Bodies exhibit I went to yesterday. It was amazing. It talked about the temprial bone (the bone that is your temple bone). It talked about how male and female hips are different. It talked about how smoking is back for your lungs. It talked about the heart and the nerves. Also, it talked about MRIs, and how they work. It talked about fatty foods, and where all the fat goes in our body. It also talked about why we love fatty foods so much. It talked about the bone growth of babies. A lot of this stuff doesn’t have much to do with dancing, but some of it does.
                Like the heart and nerves. Your need your heart when dancing, so that all of your muscles get oxygen. So they can move the way you want it to. You need nerves to that you can feel when  your legs are doing without having to look at them constantly.
                Also, you can’t eat very fatty foods either. It doesn’t matter as much if you eat fatty foods, but in the end it does affect your body, which could affect your dancing. Fatty foods make your plack build up, and then after a while you have a blood clot.
                You need your lungs to supply your body with nutritious oxygen. It you have a black lung how can you get your muscles their oxygen to move. You can’t. So smoking can affect the way you dance because it will make you out of breath easier. It also will make your  muscles ache and hurt from oxygen cut-off. 







Monday, November 1, 2010

Tutus

A tutu is a symbol of a ballerina just like Pointe shoes.
        The first kind of tutu is the bell shaped skirt in various sizes and shapes, which timeframe was from the seventeenth century to 1832. Until 1832, ballet dance steps were simple, bu when they started to get more complicated the tutus got shorter to reveal the intricate foot work. Then came the classical tutu, which was a projection shirt attached to ruffed underpants. This freed and exposed the whole leg, while concealing, for modesty, the ballerinas bottom. A piece was placed in the tutu to separate the waistband from the skirt,called a yoke, which helped the ballerina look taller by showing their waist and hips.
        A Classical tutu is traditionaly made with seven ruffled layers of either soft mesh or a very stiff net. The soft mesh makes the tutu look gentle, and the stiff net makes the tutu stick straight out. The seamstresses sews the longest mesh on top and workes her way down to the shortest. The top of the tutu, which is the longest, is called the tutu plate. The tutus decorations are sewn on there.
    While tutus are beautiful, they usually take 40 hours to make.
                Bell shaped tutu Bell-shaped Tutu

Classical soft mesh tutu Soft mesh tutu
Clasical shape tutu Very stiff net Tutu