Performance Analysis: Jessica Lang Dance

Being a psychology major, I tend to enjoy dances that appeal to emotion through stories. The dance that I decided to write this paper on is a small group contemporary piece performed by the Abby Lee Dance Company. This dance has a sad theme to it, as it deals with the topic of suicide. They use props including a table and three telephones to add creativity to the piece. This dance is interesting to me because of the affiliation it has to mental illness, which is personally important to me.

My three goals that I want to accomplish within the next few weeks is to not lose count when dancing, to become a better all around dancer, and to understand how to choreograph dances to music. My main learning types are visual and musical. My second way that I learn is interpersonal and intrapersonal. My least way of learning is linguistic, logical, and bodily. I am hoping to be able to achieve my goals by the end of this class by using my learning skills.

The SDC has not only survived but boomed in the last five years with including new courses in which to encourage young talent. Dancers and choreographers from all over the globe are invited to take classes to strengthen the dance community as a whole. Actively making new work beneath the inventive position of Rafael Bonachela, the corporate maintains an ensemble of sixteen dancers. Programs of dance embody works by Bonachela and by guest choreographers together with Jacopo Godani, Alexander oceanographer and Gideon Obarzanek, also including such collaborations with the Australian orchestra and also the state capital symphony and with

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

event that Morgantown residents can always look forward to is the biannual performance of Morgantown Dance and the Morgantown Ballet Company at the Metropolitan Theater in downtown Morgantown. The programs vary, but every other year theater-goers can expect a performance in November of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, a classic tale of Clara, her Nutcracker Prince, and a magical journey to the Land of Sweets. In past productions, guest dancers from the Pittsburgh Ballet have taken part, allowing audience members to see professional dancers from a national company. Other performances at the Metropolitan Theater have included The Snow Queen, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, and Romeo and Juliet. Each production has been a showcase of talent from

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?

Precision Dance Center is a dance school that is located in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are specializing in tap, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, hip-hop, and ballet for ages 3 and up. Precision Dance Center is where stars are born. The PDC Competition Team is a 2014, 2015, and 2016 National

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

In the very first episode of the show Abby Lee Miller, who is the dance coach and choreographer of the team, tells the girls that they are going to perform a new dance in every competition that they enter (“The Competition Begins”). This means that they will only have one week to learn an entire dance routine. With only one week to learn a dance the time that the girls on the team, and their mothers, spend in the dance studio is significant. Since the moms are spending so much time in the studio, they are one of the focal points of the show. The mothers of these girls often argue about how certain girls get more attention than others. They also discuss how Miller spends more time and gives better choreography to certain girls and to make sure that they will place the highest at competitions. The dancer that Abby spends the most time with is

“Topping dance”, was an article written by Trisha Brown and La Ribot during mid-march of 2003. Trish Brown performed at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, an event titled It’s a Darw/Live Feed. This performance was a collaboration with the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Brown’s performance was a hybrid of improvised dance and automatic drawing that would be witnessed “live” by an audience placed in a separate space in the museum, where they could watch a live video feed. Reading this article, I found it very interesting while also kind of difficult at some points. Having the discussion in class helped me to better understand Brown’s intention of her performance.

The two contemporary choreographers from this unit I chose to discuss are Anne Teresa De Keersmaker and Germaine Acogny. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's famous work Rosas Danst Rosas, depicted how Miss Keersmaker wanted to share a message on how she felt the role of women that was molded by society. The performance begins with four female dancers similar in appearance and dressed in similar costumes to present a message that women in everyday clothing going through life like a repetition comparable to different stages that a woman goes through tirelessly. The rhythm of the choreography is served by a series of everyday movements. This is then transformed into emotional narratives which the viewers can identify and connect with. The noises and sounds that the four dancers make

Jessica Lang Dance’s concert showed at the Irvine Barclay Theater on February 19, 2016 was successfully launched with stunning exhibitions in one night. For my specific concert, it was held on the second floor at entryway number five. As I was expected, the stage was fairly small, and has two levels incorporate the lower and upper (balcony), in the mean time of looking at the stage, the concert began right about five minutes later. The main scene of an opening performance was a male dressed in tight clothing, the dance is called Solo Bach. With the blissful music and splendid stage, the artist conveys the audience to an appreciated mindset with his spectacular opening. The movements are not so complicated, rather simple and delicate as he proceeds throughout the entire performance. At every end of each display, there was a small break between each showing.

On February 6, 2016, our History of Western Dance class to a trip to New York to watch the New Your City Ballet perform a Balanchine production at the Lincoln Center. The duration of the entire show was from 2- 4:55 p.m. I was captivated by Kammermusic No. 2, performed by Rebecca Krohn, Abi Stafford, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Ask la Cour, and eight- male ensemble.

My semester has been going well, thank you for asking! You expressed an interest in the Dance course that I am taking, so I just wanted to tell you how that class has been going for me so far this semester. Initially, I had thought I was going to take a Music Theory course for my Tier 2 Arts credit, which I need as part of my general education requirements. After being in choir for ten years, it seemed like a good segue from singing into the theory portion of it. However, I decided I wanted to go outside of my comfort zones in college, as this is one of the only times in my life I will be able to explore different things. As cliched as that sounds, it is one of the reasons I am excited to have so many different course selections. Last semester,

Every year the dance program puts on a fall and spring concert. The dance program has two different companies called Meredith Dance Theatre and Meredith Jazz and Tap Company. On Friday and Saturday, November 18th and 19th, I got the pleasure of stage managing for the modern dance company at Meredith, MDT. As a stage manager, it allows me to see the show every night, but also attend rehearsals and techs in preparation for the show. As a stage manager I am in charge of calling all the cues for the show, calling lights, curtain and sending dancer to places through a headset from the front of house.