ARDT Response

always been known for the risky and powerful movements which are often why dancers retire from the company. The dancer’s movements were often very intense and emotive, such as the “throws” across the stage in which the dancers would, almost violently, launch themselves across the stage in different forms (leaps, falls and flips to name a few). Another section where the movements were emotive is where the dancers were thrusting their hips in different positions to perhaps show sexuality in “self”.

‘For me, it is important that the work I make finds connection … but at the same time… calls into question our conversations of what dance is’ (Garry Stewart, 2010). Garry Stewart, the Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) since 1999, began his dance training at the age of twenty, after leaving university studying social work. Through his explosive, energetic and electrifying style, his unique dance pushes drives boundaries empowering his works, which are technically demanding, frightful and exhausting, creating an intriguing performance. In his pieces ‘Birdbrain’ and ‘G’ a combination of classical ballet, contemporary dance and gymnastics is utilized throughout to create a fascinating performance. Stewart’s productions have toured

Some may argue that dance is an art and not a sport. Yet, it has the same characteristics as a sport does.

The Repertory Dance Company Fall Dance Concert was held at the Mannoni Performing Arts Center. The dancers involved in this dance concert are part of the University of Southern Mississippi Dance Department meaning they are either pursuing a degree in dance or teach dance at a university level. Both students and faculty had the opportunity to present work during adjudication to be chosen to be presented at this concert. I particularly enjoyed this concert because, while all of the dances presented were a part of the broad genre of modern dance, each dance had such a unique aesthetic so the concert still provided a great amount of variety to keep the audience captivated. The two pieces I have chosen to review represent this variety very

On the day of October 1, 2016, a few dance friends and I attended Nuit Blanche and our first stop was Asalto Toronto. When approaching the installation, I was open-minded because this was my first experience at Nuit Blanche. When I saw the piece, however, I was unsure of what was happening and what its significance was. I noticed that it was, in fact, pedestrians in the projection, and I initially found their vertical crawling to be slightly off-putting and animalistic. Nontheless, the more I observed and questioned the piece, the deeper my understanding became. I chose Asalto Toronto due to its relation to the community and society, the overall message of overcoming, and the opportunity to view this installation as a form of ethnic dance.

On October twentieth, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at Harris Center in Folsom Lake College, a dance performance called “Twyla Tharp Dance” was exhibited by The Department of Dance. The dance contained three shorter works with two intermissions. Each of the pieces were completely different from each other because each piece had its own unique style so there was not a particular classification. In any case, there was one particular piece called “Country Dances” choreographed by Twyla Tharp was a fascinating piece in a way that it was there for amusement, as well as bringing back the old dancing style to the audiences to remind them how great the old days were. Each dancer of the piece truly understood their own character and danced to their own heart desires.

Dance is one of the most beautiful, expressive forms of art known to mankind. It expresses joy, love, sorrow, anger, and the list truly goes on for all the possible emotions that it can convey. Dance not only can express how one feels, but it can tell a story or even be used to praise a higher power. Dance has intricately played an important role to every culture over the course of time. Two forms of dance that have not only stood against the test of time but have influenced the development of other various styles of dance is none other than Classical Ballet and Modern Dance.

This year’s edition of The George Washington University’s “Danceworks” directed by Anthony Gongora was a modern variety act that combined components of dance and theatre throughout several individual performances. Among these individual performance, there were acts that were narrated while others told a story just through dance; there were acts that related to particular circumstance of GW students such as “9:35, 11:10, 12:45, 2:20, 4:10”, others that narrated the life stories of a particular character such as “Belinha,” and others that looked into the deeper meaning of human existence such as “Exuviate.” Even though the individual performances generated some interest among the members of the audience, there was chronological sequence among

Some think dance involves little endurance versus sports like cross-country running. Although, dancers exert forces through their hands, legs, arms and head in all different directions. Dance is a cardiovascular, aerobic, difficult sport. It fits all requirements in the definition of a sport, and has the physical and mental challenges as

The first act of any show is essential in capturing the audience’s focus; the performance Ballad Unto lived up to that expectation. This dance grasped my attention because I was not sure what to expect from the dance company and this dance was choreographed, by Dwight Rhoden, with

Just recently I went to view the Dance Plus Spring performance on Saturday April 23rd, 2016. Overall, the show was unique and exciting at the same time. Each of the performances were very different and they conveyed their own separate messages and themes, which made them all so exciting and fun to watch. The performance that I will be critiquing in this paper is “Excerpts from The Rambler.” Choreographed by Joe Goode and Melecio Estrella, this piece was performed in a proscenium stage because the whole idea was to have the entire audience engaged and have them view and understand the message they were trying to communicate.

For Understanding Dance, we were assigned to go to The University of Oklahoma University Theater School of Dance’s Contemporary Dance Oklahoma. The show contained six different performances with a fifteen-minute intermission after the first three. Each performance featured different choreographers, including our professor Ilya Kozadayev for his part in the performance Lucid. While I did prefer some of the dances better than others, I was able to find things I appreciated in all six dances.

We went to see this last evening (opening night for this program) and were blown away. Never having seen anything on the program before, I didn't know what to expect, but each piece was magnificent. Stanton Welch's "Tu Tu" seems to me to be a kind of personal love song to ballet. The opening and overall structure reminded me of Ashton's "Sinfonietta" with a very energetic first movement followed by a stunningly beautiful slow movement and then a fast and again more lighthearted finale. It was the second movement that amazed me the most. A solo ballerina slowly emerges from darkness and seems to reflect on her career as a ballerina with tenderness and sadness. The mood of this piece was masterfully created. It was beautifully and

Observer 1 and 2 also fully agreed on the effort qualities that were demonstrated, stating that the performance was free, sudden and light, agreeing with the dancer. The dancer expressed that the sound score provoked a “happy/upbeat” emotional response, effecting the performance by encouraging more “bounce, swing” and lightness to the movement (Appendix G, Dancer 3, p43). The observers stated that Dancer 3 “responded to the energy” and atmosphere of the piece (Appendix G, Observer 1, p44), contrasting with the feedback the observers gave Dancer 1, with Observer 1 stating that the music was “light and bouncy” and the movement didn’t reflect this (Appendix E, Observer 1, p36). Dancer 1’s results could be because of the difficulty with comprehending the score, supporting the suggestion that dancers could benefit from music training, as the apparent lack of understanding seems to negatively affect a dancer’s ability to respond to music, and perhaps their potential for

There are many differences and similarities in Lyrical and Jazz dances. Lyrical is a type of dance that is slow and flows very softly. Jazz is a faster moving dance and is very quick motions. Lyrical dance challenges choreographers and dancers to use motion to interpret music and express emotion. A lyrical dancer's movements attempt to show the meaning of the music.