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 * Egypt is going to war with Ethiopia, Radames is choose to be the commander of the army.
 * Radames is in love with the princess, Amneris, captured slave from Ethiopia, Aida. He wishes to win the war and free his love.
 * Aida is later revealed to us to be the princess of Ethiopia and she is also in love with Radames. Amneris also loves him.
 * Radames returns from the war victorious, followed by a crowd of captured Ethiopians. Aida recognizes one of them to be her father, Amonasro the king of Ethiopia.
 * Anonasro signals Aida to keep his identity hidden and forced her to try to get Radames to tell her where the Egyptian army is.
 * Radames is rewarded for the victory the Egyptian king Ramfis gives him Amneris hand for marriage
 * Radames and Aida meet, Aida eventually gets Radames to reveal the whereabouts of his army.
 * Aida's father steps out of hiding and all three of them are seen together by Ramfis and Amneris. They assume Radames is a traitor
 * Amonasro escapes with Adia, but Radmis surrenders, feeling betrayed by Aida
 * Amneris tries to save Radmes life but fails. he is buried alive in a crypt, joined by Aida who hid in there to share his fate

=**Top Five Iconic Photographs**= = =

I vote for Nessie as one of the Top Five photographs because I think this a representation of what we can do with our imagination. We have come up with so many movies and stories about the Loch Ness Monster form a single picture and what other people say they have seen. It shows how we tend to believe what we want to believe and see what we want to see.

=Ansel Adams=
 * When Adams was four, an aftershock an earthquake and fire of 1906 threw him to the ground and badly broke his nose, he was supposed to get it fixed when he reached maturity but it never happened and his nose remained crooked. A year later his family fortune collapsed in the financial panic of 1907. Adam had problems fitting in at school and spent most of his time with nature.
 * Adams taught himself how to play the piano when he was twelve. he even wanted to be professional pianist but found out that he would be more successful as a photographer.
 * Adams mostly worked in black and white because he thought that color could be distracting and could take away from the full potential of the photograph. Adams said he could get “a far greater sense of ‘color’ through a well-planned and executed black-and-white image than [he had] ever achieved with color photography” . Adams also invented photographic techniques like zone system and "burning" and "dodging"
 * He also won many awards like Doctor of Arts from both Harvard and Yale universities, elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1966, awarded the Conservation Service Award by the Department of Interior in 1968, a Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, the Sierra Club John Muir Award in 1963 , and was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver in 2007.

=**Dorothea Lange**=




 * Lange studied photography at Columbia University in New York City. She also informally apprenticed several famous New York photography studios.
 * During the Great Depression, Lange started to take pictures and study unemployment and homeless people. Her photographed captured the attention of many and led to her employment with the federal Resettlement Administration (RA), later called the Farm Security Administration (FSA).
 * later Lange and her second husband Paul Schuster Taylor, Professor of Economics at the University of California, started documenting rural poverty and the exploitation of sharecroppers and migrant laborers. Their work bought attention to the poor and the forgotten.
 * Lange also recorded the evacuation of Japanese American to internment camps during the World War 2. Her critical photograph got seized by the Army.
 * On May 28, 2008, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Lange into the California Hall of Fame.

=**World Press Photo**=



====In this picture an escaped leopard is attacking a forest warden. The warden survived the attack but the leopard was killed in attempts to subdue it. The mood of the picture is at first glance serene but then as i noticed the man with the gun and a leopard pouncing at the warden the mood change to being threatening. something that stricked me about the picture was how everything seems clam besides the leopards powerful spring to attack. The photograph doesnt relate to real everyday life, you don't see leopards jumping out at people everyday, but its weird to think that it is real and the poor leopard is now dead.====

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[|Mikhail Baryshnikov solo]  Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov also known as Misha is considered to be the one of the greatest and biggest names in ballet. He is a Russian American dancer, choreographer and actor. He has also been nominated and won many awards. Misha has also been recognized as a big promoter of modern dance.  Mikhail has been dancing since he was nine years old. He was always considered as a really talented dancer but in Russia his opportunities were cut short. His height was a disadvantage to him too and he was often placed on secondary part. But eventually his amazing talent was recognized when he played the dancing peasant in //Giselle//. Misha caught the eye of many choreographers and started work with them. In America, New York Times called him “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”. Misha wanted to do more and expose himself to many different techniques coming out but found the Russian government to be too limiting so he defected and moved to America.  In America Misha joined the New York City Ballet to work with master choreographer George Balanchine nicknamed Mr. B. Baryshnikov did more 20 roles in 15 months; some of his great works were as Apollo, Prodigal Son, and Rubies. In 1980 he took the role of an Artistic Director of American Ballet Theatre, and choreographed four full-length ballets. Unfortunately Misha had to quit ballet because of injuries. Later he co-founded the White Oak Dance Project.  Not only was Misha a wonderful dancer but he was also a great actor. He starred in five films, including //The Turning Point// in which he gave his Oscar-nominated performance. He was in many television shows like the last season of //Sex and the City//.  Over all, Mikhail Nikolaevich Baryshnikov is a man of many talents and has come a really long way. He has made major contributions to the arts society and is continuing to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Baryshnikov http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000864/bio

= = =Doris Humphrey=

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 Doris Humphrey born on December 17, 1895 was a dancer and a choreographer who had major contribution to modern dance. Some of her compositions are still performed and taught today. Doris was also a humanist, many of her work dealt with current events, faith in the world and humanity. Humphrey also contributed to modern dance today by introducing us to concepts like the human body's responses to gravity, the principle of fall and recovery.  Humphrey stared dancing at a young age with encouragement from her mother and inspiration from a dance teacher Mary Wood Hinman. Later on Doris went to dancing school where she learned choreography and choreographed pieces such as //Valse Caprice//, //Soaring//, and //Scherzo Waltz//. Some of these pieces are still performed by companies today. In 1982 Doris, with Charles Weidman, settled in New York and started making major contribution to a new dance form called “modern dance”.  Later on Doris Humphrey went on to create many pieces around her concept of fall and recovery. Humphrey described her concept of fall and recovery as the process of falling away and coming back to equilibrium. Breath rhythm and natural movement were other major ideas that her work followed. Some of her early works that showed there concepts are //Water Study//, //Life of the Bee//, //Two Ecstatic Themes// and //The Shakers//.  In 1945 Humphrey couldn’t dance because of arthritis. She still continued to choreograph as an artistic director for the Jose Limon Dance Company working with large groups and mass movements and sculptural shapes. Some of her late works were //Day on Earth//, //Night Spell// and //Ruins and Visions//. Doris Humphrey wrote a book, //The Art of Making Dances//, which is still used today to study dance since the book had many of her choreographic principles.  Doris Humphrey had many contributions to modern art and will also be remembered as a great founder of the modern dance today.

http://www.dorishumphrey.org/the-early-years/ http://depts.washington.edu/uwdance/cdc/archive/repertoire.php?t=chor&id=2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Humphrey notes

Imagine you are telling a friend about this piece. How would you explain what you saw? What was happening in the piece? What is the mood of the piece? What did it evoke in you? How did it make you feel? What struck you about the piece/ about the dancing/ the choreography or any other aspect of the dance? How can you relate what you saw in the piece to Ross’ article or to what we read about dance composition?

In Pina Bausch’s piece Café Müller there is a man who is having an attack of some kind. Another man is observing him and trying to move the furniture out of his way. They are also accompanied by a red hair woman who seems to be nervous and is also helping move the furniture. There are also two other women one of whom is standing against a wall and another sitting at a table. The mood of the whole piece is psychotic, dark and it seems like something is out of place. It made me feel uncomfortable but also a little curious as to what was happening. The part that stuck out the most was when the man stared a dance all of a sudden doing the same steps over and over again. In the article about Bousch it said that Bausch likes to use repetition in her choreography and in this piece several steps are repeated. The article also said that most of Bausch's pieces are dark and brooding and this piece displays that really well, it was very dark and tension filled.

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**Da'Vine Joy Randolph, 'Ghost the Musical'**


i would want to watch this play because i really liked the movie and want to watch the musical version of it. i also want to see Da'Vine Joy Randolph play Whoopi Goldberg role in the play and see if she would be as funny playing the part.

Khushboo Khan Ninth grade I picked dance as one of the activities for gym, it was the first time I choreographed something and danced to it. It was a fun experience coming up with moves that looked good and were fun to do.

9 11 art response

hunger artist

Things I Like

art- continued thinking

Caravaggio



[|doggies!!!] [|big moon] [|saturn] [|perspective]

Robert Rauschenberg

Painters!!

Lily, Lily, Rose

graffiti artist

Shadow sculpture

urban artists

Style Wars
==== The movie //Style Wars// was very eye opening. It gave a point of view that we don’t usually get, explaining us how the graffiti artists feel about their work. It also showed us that not all graffiti is done by people who have nothing better to do but instead some are really talented and trying to get a message out to people. These kids believe in what they are doing and have a passion for it. ====

origami
Thanksgiving

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rock and roll

Mowtown

THE 60s

Folks

memorable events of 2011

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 * valentines day**

Valentine Script

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Arts English Khushboo Khan Dear class, My summer vacation was really fun. It was a nice break from the routine homework, classes, waking up at 5:50 and running after the bus. We went to visit some family members in New Jersey, and went to the six flags. We also went to some exciting adventures trails. But the most exciting and important thing was that we bought a new house by the end of summer. I can’t wait to move into our new house but unfortunately hurricane Irene flooded our basement and my parents decided it would be safer to mover after we fix the basement again. Till then we can still just go over and hang out.

It’s great to be back to school as a senior, I am really looking forward to this year to sum up my High School career. So far High School has been great, just as I expected it to be when I first came to Guilderland from New Jersey. When I first saw the school I was a bit nervous, it was twice as big as my old school but I loved all the courses the school offered. Along the way I also met some great people and made many friends. The teachers I got were very helpful and fun to work with. When I first moved I was afraid of what kind of people I would meet but I met some really nice people.



After school I plan to go to college, in the future I would like to be a dentist. I love helping people and think this job would be the best for me. I know it would take a couple of years but I would like to take on the challenge. My brother is also thinking about the same profession which also encourages me. My brother and I are very close, we don’t usually fight but when we do it does not last very long. Everyone in my family is very close, and we all get along really well. My parents are always there when I need any help.



I’m usually a quite person but am louder among my friend and family members. Reading is a chore for me; the only time I read is when my teachers force me. Though sometimes I do end up with a book that I can’t put down but that doesn’t happen often. I love eating mac and cheese I could never get tired of eating it as well as pizza with ketchup. That disgusts my brother but I like it that way. I don’t have a favorite show; I just end up watching whatever number I end up on. During my free time I’m either with my friends or browsing through channels. I love listening to music; over 600 songs are taking up my iPod’s space. Currently I love listening to Adele, Linkin park, Eminem, Bruno Mars and Katy Perry.

I hope this year is the greatest and passes by easily. I’m really looking forward to it and to make this year the best.