2013 Fall Dance Concert Paper

Dance is an art. It is a way for people to express themselves. The dancers in the dance concert truly showed their passion for dance. They were happy to be there, happy to be dancing. The three pieces I chose to write about are Australis choreographed by Paul Maley, On this earth I will dance choreographed by Jose Silva, and Far Nearer choreographed by Jonathan Alsberry. I really liked these dances because they were really expressive and used a lot of interesting dance moves.

The first dance I chose to explain about was Australis choreographed by Paul Maley. There were many things that I liked about this dance. In this dance, there are many jumps and leaps. There were a lot of times where they would roll on the floor to get to another place. I noticed that there was often like a chain reaction movement where one person did the move, and then the next person did the same thing, and so on. I noticed that there were a lot of different groups. Sometimes there were a bunch of people and sometimes there were only two. I liked the number difference because sometimes it's harder to focus on a bunch of people rather than a couple people. They mostly has happy expressions like they were excited. Their costumes were black tops and rainbow colored bottoms. I liked their costumes because they were different colored and pretty simple. The music is sometimes slow and sometimes fast. When it becomes fast, it sort of is suspenseful. The reason why I chose this dance was because it had a lot of dance moves that were inspiring to watch and also because I thought that their costumes were good

The second dance is called On this earth I will dance choreographed by Jose Silva. For this dance, I first noticed that they were all facing different direct...

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...thusiastic about the dance. There were no words in the music for the dance but the music was upbeat and didn't seem like it was meant to be sad. Like the other dances, I noticed that there were chain reaction movements.

The Australis, On this earth I will dance, and Far Nearer dances seemed to all have things in common. I noticed that most of them had differences in the number of dancers on the stage. They also all had chain reaction movements. I liked how they made everything seem like it was effortless when they actually had to use a lot of strength to actually do the moves. They were very careful about being on time and getting to where they needed to be. I think that that is something I have to try to do more often because I am off time a lot and I need to fix that. The dance concert was a great experience to see live dance and experience it for the first time.