Brew's Dance Essay

On the first of March 2017 Tas dance came to Don College and performed Brew. Brew consisted of eight small contemporary dances that were choreographed by the dancers. Each dance varied in ideas depending on what brewed in the dancer’s heads. Even though the dance and performance was still in progress, it will soon be part of a bigger piece of work. Contrasting A bit about the piece and how it was meaningful to them

The first dance that stood out to me was ‘Homunculus’ created by Robert Tinning. This was the fourth dance performed and was about a microscopic yet fully formed human being form which a foetus was formally believed to develop. While watching this dance it looked as though something inside of him was trying to escape. This dance may have been inspired by multiple things such as anxiety, mental illnesses, being sick of how you need to hide yourself from society in case of being judged and more. The intention for this dance was very visual since the humanly figure was simply projected onto the performers stomach, where a foetus would have grown. Something I realised during the dance that rebelled against the intention was it grew in size as the dance went on and in the end wasn’t just where

This dance was the seventh performance shown, was a binary performance and was about love and jealousy. Everyone seemed to be paired up as “lovers” beside the main dancer and the actions during this dance seemed both smooth and sharp depending on what the main dancer was trying to do. While trying to find love it was quite sharp and made it seem nothing he tried was right and when he was trying to get between the other couples it was quite smooth and flowy. Throughout the dance the speed was average and it also seemed to also be very spaced out since they used the entire space. Some choreographic devices they used in this dance were action and