The setting is at the UNCG Dance center in the auditorium, it was small almost a private feel, with a stage and seats for an audience. These performances were called the spring dances which were performed, April 15, 2016. Even though it was called Spring Dances there were 5 performances with different names which different students performed.
The first performance was called “Stance”, my first thoughts to describe the dance was tribal. It was dark at the beginning and banging on the ground which scared me at first. Then the lilac lighting started to show the dancers who were dressed in big saggy clothing which gave it a more dark feeling. The music was fast pace, which speed your heart rate because it was thrilling especially them banging
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The people were beginning to crawl on the floor, the loud banging shook me as it continued in the darkness, everyone doing something different. The way they were standing almost like wax figures like the audience was meant to wax in and through them, but as they were standing there they all were improvising. The music changes to an Erykah Badu hip hop theme, well that what came to me when the song changed. The shade backdrop went green a lighter less creepy vibe, the color changed and so did the mood even though the song might have been the same. Lastly the did change one more time to a night time dance club back alley, 80s’ feel to it. A boy does randomly come out with a fan and sings into it, give his voice an auto-tuned fill to it. I loved the magenta backdrop, everything became as calm as they were dancing, and using the airplanes as props flying around as they were dancing. Using the airplanes showing flight, picking each other up, it was like I was watching them dancing at a night club in slow motion at one point. When they became fast I could only describe it was eccentric and using the fan to blow the paper was different, never seen dancing in that way
Eisenhower Auditorium was once again rocked by the refreshing and exhilarating performance of hip hop dance by the Compagnie Kafig performers. There was two pieces to the performance that night; Correria and Agwa, both choreographed by the troupe’s artistic director Mourad Merzouki. The troupe is acknowledged for their thrilling combination of hip hop, capoeira, samba, electronic music and bossa nova integrated in their dance routines with the addition of their finest acrobatic skills as publicized by the Carolina Performing Arts in their websites. Compagnie Kafig proved that the review is absolutely true with their astounding performance that night.
I went to see the Parsons Dance Company on Tuesday April 9th. It was a very interesting show. There were actually many different techniques that I observed in this performance. This company uses many different forms of dance all into one technique, which makes them a unique company.
In the beginning, the dancers start this arrangement by slowly sitting down, hunched over in their chairs and then hurl their upper bodies into the air, only to gradually sit back down. After a few moments, the dancers suddenly wind their arms off to the right side and hastily throw them to the other side and then repeat the steps they did before. Throughout the piece, they add on to the sequence and eventually go on to reverse it before they finally break free at the end.
... social dance. Many people in today’s society enjoy social; dancing. Chapter eleven dance concert, properly planning and establishing a dance concert is of the utmost importance. The partnership with the lighting designer usually takes priority over all other factors. One of the most important issues concerning customers has to do with mobility. The dancer must be able to move comfortably in the costume. The task of producing a dance concert is an overwhelming and tiring one. Chapter twelve dance in education and career in dance, many dance educators present the argument that teaching and learning dance as an art form is obviously absent from the American student education. There has always been and always will be people who have a love, desire, and passion to instruct and learn the art of dance, will ensure an important place for dance in higher education.
Irish dance is known all around the world for its music, style, and costumes. What once started as a cultural folkloric dance has now turned into a worldwide phenomenon because of many contextual factors on the three defining characteristics. In this paper I will attempt to show how the Gaelic League, An Coimisiún, and Riverdance influenced and changed the posture, movement, and appearance of the dance form. The story of Irish dance thus far is one of a constant changing dance that reflects the influences around it. Each of the changes in the style, costuming, and meaning of the dance has molded it into the globally accepted and loved dance form seen today.
They do this in a group, making the movements more intimidating and sinister with a mystical twist, they’re movements are in a ballone style. Once again like a traditional romantic ballet. The ballone style is lighter and highlights the supernatural quality. However, although the majority of their choreography is in the style, they also have a heavy dynamic to their movements, they dance with heavy shoulders and heads, that appear to be kind of just placed on the body and not particularly choreographed, just allowed to be flung freely in whatever direction the body takes
The dance performance that I chose to attend was Alice In Wonderland, which was performed at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado by an outside presenter called the Canyon Concert Ballet. As noted in the companies name, the style of dance was contemporary ballet and after I did some research on the company’s website I could not find the choreographer of this play, but the list of the dancers is on their website at: http://ccballet.org/company/dancers/. The particular show that I saw was narrated from the perspective of Alice’s older sister by Jessica V. Freestone, who is the Former Artistic Director of Canyon Concert Ballet, and daughter of the Open Stage founders. This presentation of Alice In Wonderland took place on April 22nd, and
Despite the fact that ballet is a completely new challenge for me, I managed to learn the choreographies and movements. From the videotaped performance I was able to identify the dance technique aspects that need to be improved for further correction. Although several elements, such as turns, port de bras, spatial awareness, movement quality and dynamic range require work; there are also aspects that were improved through practice.
The non-locomotor are: turs, tap steps, shuffling and kicking. All three dancers accomplishes the dance in mostly unisons, they had many different expressions to show viewers their enjoying spending time with each other, and really strong energies in lots of moves. Most of the focus of the dancers are each other, they look at each other in most the dance moves which helps them create unisons. They started in the kitchen then slowly danced towards different locations in the house. When the levels is high they stand on stairs etc. When the levels are low they sit on the couch when the song ended. The rest of the song would just be medium levels. The video of the song goes for 4 minutes, the tempo goes fast enough to do tap
The Northern Territory is known for its culturally diverse population and some would say it is the ‘multicultural hub’ of Australia. With all of these cultures comes distinctive customs and traditions. Throughout history dance has been used to help people develop a sense of identity, the younger generations are also taught social patterns and values through the different dances. The significance of these traditional dances was to reinforce and celebrate cultural law and practices including the celebration of the passage from child to adulthood or spiritual worship. The predominantly Western culture in Australia often causes minority groups to struggle for recognition regarding their beliefs and traditions. This is parallel to the Australian dance industry, where many cultural dance groups feel they have to justify who they are and are often
Dance is a part of every culture. Whether it is the fire dances of the native Hawaiians, or the Tango from Spain, dance is a part of every culture. This event is not an event I would usually attend. I am not into art of any kind except music. At first, there were two reasons I went to this performance.
Irregardless, it was the opening dance tittle. Its main topic was related to a love story with seven female dancers and one male. Their movement reflected a fight between two girls for a boy. In order to give sensuality and to transmit the physical beauty of the women through movements, they made use of Latin rhythms. Salsa and Mambo were the main musical backgrounds. The dancers also applied dancing techniques belonging to those Latin rhythms. The str...
Have you ever thought about the history of dance, or how long human life has known it? Dance has been here longer than we actually think. We can take dance back all the way to 600 BC to Now. Dance has made very big changes overtime. It went from doing it in honor for only the dead or religious situations to now just doing it for fun. The way or different moves have also changed over this big course in time. It ways and moves have changed, and the outfits used to perform these different types of dances. There has been clean and dirty dancing all along, some of things in those dances have stayed, others haven’t. Dance has been a very great thing and will stay being a great thing during human life because it expresses a lot. It expresses itself, and a person can express their feelings, in the different kind of moves. It does take time to get to know the moves but you can get through.
The first one was almost like a warriors dance. Guys coming out with vibrant headdresses and skirts and they sung in powerful voices that demanded your complete attention. After the warrior dance was a quite unique dance. It consisted of women dancing between two sticks that other ladies were holding on both sides. It reminded me a little like kids jumping rope back home in the streets, but the dresses were very colorful and it was hypnotizing to watch. I later found out the dance was called the Tinikling a traditional that is based upon a myth that after the Spanish invasion, the King of Spain ordered for the massive plantation. All the Filipinos obeyed the orders and those who disregarded the rules of the King; they were penalized by standing between two bamboo poles. At that time, a practice was established among the common Filipinos to perform a traditional folk dance (Nazir, J.,
Dance is an ancient human practice, however the earliest record of human dance remains a mystery. By