What On Earth

The lives of DP dancers - filmed by DP dancers

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

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Here's a snippet of the show... That went on through the snow... 375 braved the weather... To celebrate our history together! #Rhyme #TriedIt 😂😂 #DrSeussHasNothingOnUs #WoE #ThroughTheEyesOfTheYouth #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryShow #CaptionThis #WithaBetterRhyme #DancePlus #DP #DPStrong

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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)

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

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#MoveItMonday Did you catch #DancePlus traveling team on #Fox2News this morning?! If not here's a snippet! #GoodJob! @a.arielle @_.dessa.rae._ @kelseyyyyy____ @madison.symone and others...

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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

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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

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Josephine Baker Singer, Dancer, Civil Rights Activist (1906–1975) Born Freda Josephine McDonald on June 3, 1906, in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker spent her youth in poverty before learning to dance and finding success on Broadway. In the 1920s she moved to France and soon became one of Europe's most popular and highest-paid performers. She worked for the French Resistance during World War II, and during the 1950s and '60s devoted herself to fighting segregation and racism in the United States. After beginning her comeback to the stage in 1973, Josephine Baker died of a cerebral hemorrhage on April 12, 1975, and was buried with military honors. #wildcardwednesday #blackhistorymonth #africanamericandancers #blackdancers #facts #stl #DP #DancePlus #WOE #WhatONEarth #JosephineBaker #BananaDance #SheDidItFirstNotBeyonce

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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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SHOW YOUR DP SPIRIT AND ORDER YOUR SPIRIT JERSEY!! Sign-up at the front desk!

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For our #WildcardWednesday we would like to acknowledge all the DP dancers who have been attending Conventions this year. Keep up the good work! #DP #DancePlus #AdrenalineDanceConvention #JumpDanceConvention #HollywoodVibeDanceConvention

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ANNNNNDDD we're back! #MoveItMonday with some of DP's level 3 tappers! #Pullback

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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!

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#TermTuesday Entrechat [ahn-truh-SHAH] Interweaving or braiding. A step of beating in which the dancer jumps into the air and rapidly crosses the legs before and behind each other. #DanceTerm #Entrechat #MaleDancer #Dancer #Dancers #Dance #Ballet

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

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#WILDCARDWEDNESDAY!! Did you catch #DPAlumni @lynneabrown on the #AMA's? She performed with new artist #CharlieXcx! CONGRATS LYNNY! *Sorry about video quality #DancePlus #Dance #Dancer #LynneaBrown #STL #DP #WorkingDancer #StLouisDancer #stldancer #LA #WhatOnEarth #WOE #alumni

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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