Dance Concert Report: Valley High School Dance

Our heavy breaths were inaudible compared to the claps and cheers delivered from the audience. As the audience gave us a standing ovation, we all knew we proved our point. Our voices were heard through dance. The stage grew dark and we walked off in unison, Latino and proud. We were able to physically, emotionally, and intellectually captivate audiences.

The Faculty Dance Concert was an entertaining event filled with a variety of dance styles. The show took place on Friday, November 6, 2015, at 7:30 in the evening, and was held in the Fullerton College Campus Theatre. The founding artistic director is Melanie Kay Rosa and the assistant artistic director is Lisa M. Anderson. The dance faculty choreographers are Lisa M. Anderson, Sarah Cashmore, Teresa Jankovic, and Melanie Kay Rosa. The four guest choreographers are Helen Gardea, Robert Laos, Devon Smith and Shawnee Amara Williams. The two student choreographers are Ashely Garcia and Madeline Young.

The La Costa Canyon High School Winter Dance Recital was a fun and upbeat, communal experience that allowed the opportunity to watch fellow students excel in their own individual strengths. Each dance was creatively choreographed to portray a message whether slow or fast, happy or sad. The overall experience was enjoyable and definitely repeatable.

What is the Disney extravaganza? The National Cheer Association and the National Dance Alliance create the Disney extravaganza as one team. The National Cheer Association is abbreviated NCA. The National Dance Alliance is known as the NDA. The Disney Extravaganza is only a small portion of a big parade. This portion is a Christmas dance that is put on by a team made up of NCA and NDA participants. The video of the dance is combined with smaller portions of the parade and the shows to make one parade. The parade is seen by viewers on Christmas day. The parade is a magical experience that brings the childhood enjoyment of Christmas back. All cheerleaders and dancers should get to be a part of this event. The National Cheer Association, the National Dance Alliance, and Disney’s Extravaganza is an amazing experience because it is a widely viewed parade, a great accomplishment, and it gives one the opportunity to meet others.

Sophomore Mayra Gomez has mostly AP classes and she is in Dance Production. How does she do it all? Well, Mayra has found that during the dances she is not in or during breaks, she can do her homework. Gomez says she gives one hundred percent in every dance otherwise the dance looks sloppy and weak. Did you know that she choreographs dances in her free time? She does and she plans to audition those pieces so that they can be in dance concerts held by Grace Davis High School. Mayra says that being in Dance Production is very stressful, but at the same time it is fun because you and the members of Dance Production become one family who share embarrassing moments; they share tears and smiles. Although Dance Production looks well-put and organized,

As a beginner dancer at MHS, it is really important to go to dance concerts because it will help us improve our dancing. The concert I went to was known as SJDanceco, and this concert was located at Santana Row’s park. This event had started at 10 am and had ended around 5 pm. I had went at 10 am and left around 2pm because it was a really fun experience. I had seen many cool and different choreographies with different types of dances. On the other hand this concert has occurred on 4/23/2017, which is on a sunday. There were approximately 88 - 91 performance groups that had gathered and performed on this special day. This was SJDanceco’s 15th anniversary, so this could be a reason why there were so many groups. Even though there were too many choreographers to name, all of their choreographies were all amazing. Their choreos showed us how much work and effort they put in, and I believe all of them put in lots and lots of hard work and effort.

Watching this performance was the most inspirational and admiring show that I have ever seen. The amount of work each and everyone of this students put into their work was unexplainable. Each dance told a story. Two of my favorites were “Sistas of Sorrow “ and “527”. They both expressed a powerful story that was just breath taking. With their customs that perfectly gave you feel of the time that the story was taking place.

The Dance concert is the Orange Coast College Student Dance Concert having multiple dances of different types of dances. It’s inside the Robert B. Moore Global Theater. It’s starts at 8:00 and ends at 10:00pm and I went on April 28th, a Friday night. The artistic directors are Amelie Hunter and Shana Menaker and I believe to be one hundred people or more in the theater. So it’s a full house fill with students and adults alike.

All in all, this showcase was super fun. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire event. I did wish that they lessons were a little longer because I learned the most from the lessons. The moves that the performers did were too advanced and it’s hard to imitate them without knowing the proper footwork and etc. Maybe next time the performers should also teach the students and make it a little more interactive. That will definitely keep more students afterwards to social dance. Nevertheless, the showcase was amazing, and this class is still my favorite all of all the classes I’ve taken so

The Senior Dance concert, 9 o’ clock showing consisted of seven dance pieces. The first piece was called “Heavy Dew”, this piece was comprised of a six-person group dance. The backdrop was a blue shading. The sounds in this piece were waterfalls, and rainforest sounds. The movements made me feel as though the dancers were creatures in a wilderness or a rainforest, it was fast paced. For the first part of the performance the group of girls are dancing in front of the audience together, then as the music turns to be more serious and intense, there is just one dancer on the stage. Then, once all the dancers come back onto the stage, the music starts to soften and slow down again and the lights begin to dim for the remainder of the performance.

The performances from the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre was nothing short of a success. As I watched the show, I was in awe of how well put together it all was. Coming from a performing arts high school, I am not new to reviewing dance shows; but of course high school dance shows simply did not compare to the performances from the ARDT. The show was composed of eight unique and intriguing ensembles, all of which showcased outstanding performance ability. Although every piece was exceptional, I did have my favorites. Among my favorites were Iron Grace Mechinique, Hex, Don’t Fall Asleep, Harlequinade Pas de Deux, and Lifted!.

I did an interpretive dance for my reflections project. To go along with my movement I chose three songs that represented each of the artists, authors, and composers. To represent The Hudson River School I used the song Ordinary Miracle (Charlotte’s Web, 1980). I used this song because the song describes environment as beautiful and perfect just like the painting from The Hudson River School. In the dance I tried to be very graceful and as perfect as possible by not making my movement choppy to represent how there were no harsh lines or obvious imperfections in the paintings from The Hudson River School. The Hudson River School paintings were like this because they saw America as beautiful and perfect and at the time there were no harsh conflicts.

On the evening of August 11th, the remarkable trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, an icon of today’s free improvisation, joined the New York-based quirky trio DarkMatterHalo for a concise performance at the East River Park Amphitheater in Manhattan, followed by the charismatic Nublu Orchestra.

Our vision for the dance is to be overall successful no matter what theme, food, or lighting we have. We want this dance to be fun for the 8th grade students plus 1 guest of their choice. Although, we understand that it be hard to meet some of our needs and wants for the dance, we will aid the PTA and our school in any possible to make it happen. Our target date for this is May 20, 2017, because it is one month away from our graduation(June 9). This will allow the 8th grade students a night to have fun with their peers before going off to their different high schools. We would hope that this dance can be on a Friday night as well, because most people are free this night. The dance should be in May because it will be warm and nice out. May is

40 individuals were a part of Spotlight’s outstanding production on February 6th, 2016. Each year, Spotlight Dance Academy has a Kick-Off event for the purpose of performing all the routines for their competition season. This event is reserved for their elite troupe dancers to evince their hard work and takes place in Grand Haven High School’s performing arts center. An event like this allows for the patrons to be entertained and the performers to express themselves while participating in a sport they enjoy.