Morgantown Dance Performance Analysis

Sally Banes is an American writer and dance historian and critic. She is also a professor of theater history and dance studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Banes has written multiple books and contributed to many documentaries and films. The book Moving History / Dancing Cultures, which Banes contributed to, includes the article “Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater”. This book was published in 2001.

The prestigious dance company located on the Manly Wharf, Walsh Bay supports a great following and appreciation of dance. Since 1985 the company has called The Wharf in Sydney’s Walsh Bay home. Being minutes from the city’s iconic Bridge and Opera House it gains a lot of attention by new comers to the city. Its studios can hold the most attending dance students in Australia, with nearly 80,000 attendances annually. An opportunity with a pre-professional course in dance was offered to dancers of the company during 2014. This would offer students the likelihood to gain experience with a number of Australia’s most well-known choreographers.

This December, Blacksburg Ballet will bring you the most joyous holiday gift with its unforgettable production of The Nutcracker, a Blacksburg holiday tradition. Travel with Claire and her Nutcracker Prince on their magical journey through wintery parks and enchanted lands as they are visited by life-size toys, soldiers, snowflakes and beautiful fairies. A holiday show for the entire family, full of magic and splendor!

On April 14, 2017, my friend and I visited for the first time Salt Lake City Community College dance company’s annual performance. The show was presented at the Grand Theater at the South City Campus of the college. The performance’s name “Moving Words” imply what the audience was about to experience. “Moving Words” consists of 18 different dances and each of those dances brought a unique feeling to the overall performance. I thought that the dancers and choreographers have done an amazing job. However, after seeing all the different dances there were two that stuck together with me, because of the ideas and the morals these dances introduced.

Sarah Calver is a notable dance educator and choreographer, widely known for her contribution to not only dance, but also to the arts industry in the Northern Territory from 1984. Awarded with the 2012 ‘Services to Dance’ award by Ausdance, Calver has been vital in integrating dance into the everyday lives of those living in Australia’s far north. Taking inspiration from figures such as Maggi Phillips and Evelyn Hodgkinson, whose discipline and passion drove her practice in an isolated region1, Calver continues to educate and inspire Australia’s young dancers. She is adept at creating, producing, and remounting dance theatre works as part of SLiDE Youth Dance Theatre ( a collaborative effort run with Joanna Noonan and Katie Cawthorne(now Canberra

This genre of dance created mixed feelings among conservative members of society and although MSNBC’s Mike Brzeznski calls it “disgusting” and “pathetic” (USA Today, 2013) there is a time and a place when the dance should not take place because of it provocative style. Women are using the dance to get in shape and stay in shape, including it in their exercise regime. Regardless of the negative critiques it receives, it is a different way to express sexual feelings for one of the opposite gender when performing, which is no different than lovemaking choreographed into a piece of a contemporary dance scene and a dance that is protected in the USA through freedom of expression the “very heart of our democracy”

Alberta Dance Theatre (ADT) is a dance collective of approximately 50 dancers aged 7-17. From September to December ADT rehearses for the annual production. ADT focuses on creativity and choreography formulated by the dancers. Because of this, I have grown to love innovation and collaboration with people of all ages.

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.

This bibliography is important because it is has allowed me to critically view the sources that I will use for my research paper. I have dissected and deconstructed the data so that I could fully understand them and employ the material effectively. The question I am attempting to answer with my research is to what extent does the arts and specifically dance benefit our psychological body?

Every year, Valley High School dance classes perform different dances during the spring dance concert. This year the concert title was ¨Dancepirations¨ and was performed two days, April 26th and 27th. As a student taking beginning dance, I was part of this year's dance concert. My dance class and I spent months learning and practicing the choreography that Ms. Torres, Yanell, and Yessenia created for us. It was a hip hop dance using Jennifer Lopez’s songs. Our costume also was chosen for them, it was a blue overall with a yellow mustard or burgundy t-shirt. This was an amazing experience where we realized how capable of dance we are and where we learned lessons of great value.

Coming into this semester I was very apprehensive about what to expect. However, having just come from Dance Technique and Performance II, I learned the importance of not othering experiences and to embrace them and use them as a learning tool. I felt that course helped me enter dance partnering through a different mindset, but I was still a bit unsure. In life, I tend to have trust issues. I need to really get to know someone well before I start opening up and disclosing aspects of my life and my thoughts to him or her. Because this is a pattern found in life, it translates directly into my dancing as well. In dance patterning, trust is a major component. When dancing with someone else, it is important you listen to the partner and trust him

This summer I attended MadBoots Dance Company’s five day intensive at the Peridance Capezio Center in New York City. After taking several master classes with them last semester at DeSales, I became interested in their risk-taking choreography and their willingness to recklessly abandon what is seen as traditional in dance. The intensive was three hours long each day and consisted of athletic, contemporary movement with a gaga influence. The company directors, Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz, taught excerpts from new pieces such as “Beau” and “Sad Boys”, among other pieces in the company’s repertoire. The company recently performed these pieces at the 2015 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

The dance that I will be focusing on is entitled: thinking sensing standing feeling object of attention. The dance, to me, symbolizes the socialization of persons in Western civilization concerning gender roles. In the beginning there are gestures that are separated from emotion and full-embodiment, but as the dance progresses the gestures become more meaningful and recognizable. The lighting starts out very specific and narrow, then the light encompasses the entire stage, and eventually the dancers are silhouetted as they return to a familiar movement motif in the end. The music is mainly instrumental with occasional soft female vocals, and the lyrics suggest emotion, which is interesting because the dancers do not convey emotion until

On December 1, 2017, in the University Theatre at California State University, Dominguez Hills, I observed the fall dance concert Rise. It was choreographed by Amy Michelle Allen, Marco A, Carreon, Sarah Cashmore, Jeff Hendrix, Erin Landry, Doris Ressl Acosta, and Kenneth Walker, with the long cast of dancers. The production was pleasing, and would not have been believable without the work from production designers, Frederick Depontee and Cheryl Sheldon. Rise is played out in eight different dance routines, which were Xtra Xtra, Scar Tissue, Hart Broken, Things Are A Stirrin’, and the rest are intermissions such as Female Energy, Women, Exotica, Strength In Numbers, and Makina.

For as long as our country has been in effect; we have created a culture of killing through the use of the death penalty. Capital punishment used to be very popular back in the 1600s but this is 2015 and things need to change. This USA is in league with Syria, Afghanistan, North Korea, and Iraq in enacting the death penalty. Why are we still accepting it as a form of punishment when so few accept it? Furthermore, several studies and research have shown that taking the life of another human being through capital punishment only perpetuates a cycle of violence. Also other research has shown that flaws in our justice system has led to innocent being prosecuted, guilty being set free, and a plethora of other biases being present during capital punishment cases. The whole process is flawed in many ways, but the scariest part about it is that very little has been done to change it. In this great and wonderful country we say that we value tolerance and diversity but in most cases we seem to forget this and instead look for vengeance and death. The death penalty is a heinous crime which enacts the very principles with which; we are condemning an accused individual. Due to its racial and economic injustices, and the inhumaneness of the torturous death penalty; the penalty of death should be abolished.