Jennifer Lynn Lopez - The World Famous Dancer

This article explores the life of Jennifer Lynn Lopez, the world famous dancer, and her journey to success. It covers her background, innovation, impact, legacy, and more.

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Introducing the artist and their background and innovation
Jennifer Lynn Lopez was born on 24th July in 1969. She was born to the Puerto
Rican parents Guadalupe Rodríguez and David López and she has an older sister, Leslie
and a younger sister, Lynda who is a journalist. David uses to work in the night shift in
the Guardian Insurance Company before he has been working as the computer technician
at the firm whereas Guadalupe was the homemaker. During the birth of Lopez, the family
uses to live in the small apartment of the Castle hill neighborhood. Lopez started taking
dancing lessons from the age of five (Purkayastha). Her parents have encouraged their
daughters to perform in a home that is in front of the family members and friends so that
they can stay out any trouble of performing in front of others. Lopez has studied from the
Catholic school and she was also athletic, competing in the national track championships.
During her final year in school, she was seeking the role of the teenage girls in films. She
was auditioned and cast in the low cast film directed by Connie kaiserman. Her decision
of becoming the movie star and the dancer was not appreciated by her family members,
thus the differences in opinions led her to move out of her home and shifted to an
apartment in Manhattan (Diamond). She then performed in the regional productions of
the musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar and Oklahoma. Later she got a job in the
Synchronicity show in Japan, she played the role of the dancer, choreographer. Early in
2000, Lopez was nominated for the best dance performance in the second hit single
“Waiting for tonight” but she lost the award to the Veteran diva Cher. In early 2001, she
gained the popularity of the multi-talented person (Foster).

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Describe the creation of the work and its larger impact.
Jennifer has grown up by the listening of the rhythms of the Salsa, Bachata, and
Merengue and from the seven years, she went to the tour around the New York City with
the dance class. She began her dance careers in the stage musicals in Europe and Japan as
the teen performer. By hearing about the scholarships for the dance school in Manhattan,
she went for it. She uses to finance herself for taking the dancing lessons from the age of
nineteen (Amans). She also spent several months for auditioning in the dance roles.
Lopez was selected as the dancer for the various rap music videos and as a backup dancer
for the New Kids (Midgelow). She won the national competition in 1990 and also earned
spot dancing as the fly girl dancer in the television comedy programs. She gained the
potential of becoming a world-class dancer by studying dancing in schools (Ohkita).
How was/is this work received and why?
Jennifer Lopez started her career as the dancer on the TV’s comedy shows, then
she appeared in the films like the Blood and Wine and the Out of Sight and these films
made her the bona fide movie star and made her one of the highest-paid Latin actresses in
the Hollywood. Lopez along with her dance career also launched her music career like
her albums include On the Six, Como Ama una Mujer in 2007. Her movies include
Anaconda, The Wedding Planner, Maid in Manhattan, Shall We Dance and other make
her one of the famous actresses and showed her excellent and unique skills in dance. She
also joined the panel of the American Idol as the judge in the year 2010 (Holmes).
What questions does this choreographer’s work ask?

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The choreographer’s work questions about the dance technique that is the
choreographer should have knowledge regarding the dance step, routines, and styles (Hay
and Martin). The directors generally depend on the choreographers for pulling together
the dance routines that are statistically needed for the production. The choreographer’s
work is also questioned by the leadership techniques that are the choreographers should
have the strong leadership skills as the entire group of dancers and the actors depend on
the choreographers for the execution of their routine. Their responsibilities are also
questioned based on the factors like the creativity and the disciplines. The choreographers
should have the creative talent as the entire concept depends upon the ideas of
choreographing the dance routines. They should have the ability to translate the ideas and
concepts into the physical movements. The choreography requires the long, tedious hours
of rehearsing for getting the dance moves perfectly as the audience buys a ticket for
seeing the performances, musical productions and a lot of pressure weighs on the
choreographer for ensuring the total success. The choreographers should be disciplined,
persistent for achieving this (Childs).
What is significant about this person in the context of their historical time?
Jennifer Lopez has started her career by enrolling herself for the dance class in a
school that offers a scholarship. Her parents encouraged her to sing, dance and also
encouraged her and her sisters to perform in front of many people. But when Lopez
decided to take acting, dancing as her professional career, then her parents do not agree
with her. For which she needs to finally shift to an apartment and started her career based

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on her own finance (Lewis-Smith). This demonstrates that in the earlier days many
talented people could not move forward and cannot choose the uncertain profession as
they are mostly stopped by the social pressure. The earlier effect of the society could not
stop this brilliant talent from moving forward towards their own dream. Her performance
also showed the brilliant performances based on the different dance forms and her dance
performs depends on the unique moves, which attracts people and this helps her to
become one of the world popular and the famous dancer. Her movies are mostly based on
the dance forms and the dance choreography mainly attracts people.
What is the legacy of their work?
Lopez is considered as the most influential Hispanic performer in the United
States are credited by the breaking racial barriers in the industry. Lopez became one of
the highest paid actress of the Hispanic descent in the industry and she was able to
transverse the hard racial boundaries. Lopez is considered as the most powerful
entertainer on the entire planet and she is known as the world’s most powerful Latino
celebrity. Lopez has also contributed to the Latin explosions that are occurring in the
entertainment at that time. Lopez is also regarded as the global icon and she is also
described as the triple threat performer and she has also been cited as the influence or the
inspiration by the various ranges of the entertainers. She was also considered as the style
icon of the 2000s decade. Her images of wearing a dress gain the maximum number of
searches on the Google image search and her record-breaking the fragrance line became
one of the most successful celebrities in the world as her first fragrance has been credited

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with influencing the rise of the celebrity fragrances in the 2000s. Along with all the
success, Lopez was also appointed as the judge in the American Idol in 2010. The trend
of the networks hiring the big names for the judging panel in this show has ensured
Lopez as one of the most successful and the global famous icon. The newspaper has also
declared as one of the most successful multidimensional artists, who had turned in to the
financial powerhouse and the Record newspaper have shared their observation that she
was the one who was responsible for the introduction of the Latina presence in the film
industry that was the whites-only preserve for most of its history (Abdullah).

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