The structure of the dance was organized with a duet of two dancers from beginning to end. ... All female dancers are dressed identically. ... With that being said, Serenade played a major role within Modern Dance as the woman was seen as a rising figure and the centerpiece of a narrative. ... Ballet helped signify the overall portray of women within Modern Dance. ... With that said, women were the key component in ballet, and therefore, were illustrated as much more significant figures in Modern Dance. ...

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Also it showed the difficulties of the gender expectations had brought in our modern society. ... Sadness for he cannot dance. In the movie we mostly see Billy smiling while he is dancing. "I forget everything I feel like electricity" Billy faces his problems by dancing in front of Jacky. ...

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Compare and Contrast During the 1950s marriage,weddings and honeymoons, and the role of men and woman dating has changed plenty in America to modern age. ... In the 50s men and woman would meet at certain bars and dances in which they would go usually single to look for a date. ...

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While this distinct way of life seems uncivilized to the modern reader, the balance works for the men and women of Umuofia. ... The women of Iguedo did not meet in their secret enclosure to learn a new dance...young men who were always abroad in the moonlight kept to their huts that night. ... " (p.196) The original roles and customs of the men and women are not fulfilled, such as women learning a "new dance," or men roaming the "village paths....

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At one point in "Battle Royal", a woman dances around naked for the men's pleasure. ... The steps taken by women some forty, fifty, even sixty years ago, demanding equality and insisting on entrance to certain colleges, have allowed women in modern day to pursue any path they desire. ... While the roles and social status of women changed significantly over the last century, I believe that a naked woman dancing around a bunch of drunk men hooting and hollering and even grabbing at her would be just as unacceptable then as it would be today to the majority of all the social classes whic...

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She doesn't talk to men first and doesn't ask them to dance but waits for them to approach her. ... She went out of that strict characteristic of the "good" woman and took on those of the more of the "modern day". ...

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