When it comes to speaking or performing in front of an audience, everyone has their own ways of handling the situation, even if they don’t have a fear of a big audience. Some people imagine their audience naked and some imagine themselves somewhere else. This trick to performing is expressed in both “Lost in Motion” and “Lost in Motion 2” These short films depict two professional dancers performing breath-taking moves, all while in perfect elegance. These two short films have both similarities and differences. The comparison of these films can be best categorized by its setting, its mood, and its music
As stated in the introduction, both people in the “Lost in Motion” videos are both professional dancers. When the two dance, they seem to be alone in their thoughts. In “Lost in Motion”, the male dancer is performing his routine backstage behind the curtain, he is alone both in his mind and outside of it as well. The area where he is dancing is pitch black with blue lines complementing each strong movement. After he finishes his routine, he proceeds to enter onto the stage in front of the audience. In “Lost in Motion 2”, the female dancer is performing in front of a live audience, however in her mind she is alone. In her mind, she is dancing on a giant floating rock structure in an ominous place filled with storms. While in this place, she dances on the edge, fearlessly. After her performance, she then proceeds to enter backstage.
The settings of both short films contribute
The two live dance works viewed this year were “Emergence”, performed by Sydney Dance Company, choreographed by Rafael Bonachela, performed at the Princess Theatre and a recorded dance performance titled “Image”, choreographed by Jason Northam and Liesel Link. The two dance performances substantiated were exceedingly diverse and dissimilar. The two performances juxtaposed their intentions and interpreted opposing elements through diversity in movement vocabulary, structural devices and form, performance skills and technical elements.
While the speaker has succeeded in providing an enhanced image of the performer, the act of assigning meaning to the performance and the representation used holds the capacity to limit the experience. As the speaker continues to reconfigure her strip tease into a “[graceful] and calm” artistic dance, he makes a simultaneous attempt to distance himself from the crowd, making no mention of his gender or race directly (5). However, the speaker’s attempt to portray the dancer from objective eyes falters as his
Petipa’s production of Swan Lake is a beautiful example of the structure movements that dancers must perform; in the clip titled Odile entrance & Black Swan pas de deux, you see “The Black Swan” perfect posture and balance, dancing on en Pointe all the while managing to gracefully seduce the prince through her seductive movements and entrancing expressions. In contrast Modern dance focus is on the dancer expressing their inner most emotions and feelings through free flowing movements. The modern dancer uses their whole body more naturally and fluidly to convey what their current emotional state is, unlike classical ballet where the ballerina at all times keeps an upright posture, and performs with structured, angular lines. Martha Graham’s “Frontier” is a great example of the free movements of Modern dance; In this performance Martha Graham uses her whole body to move to the rhythmic sounds of the drums and music, you can clearly see that there is no confined structure in this performance, she is completely moving organically to how she is feeling and what she is trying to convey through her movements.
On Wednesday, November 18th, I had the pleasure to attend and watch the Dance Plus’s Fall show. The Dance Plus was performed at the Douglass Theatre, Victoria Mastrobuno Theater. When I entered the show the theatre seemed a little small for such big crowed. I immediately thought there would not be enough seats for all the audience, but somehow it fitted everyone. As everyone got settled down, the dance performance had started. I chose to write about the first performance that was choreographed by the amazing director, Jessica Lange her work was simply wonderful! I loved every little piece of the play. It put a smile on my face watching this amazing work of art. So with that said, I would now like to talk about the dance performance. There were
In 1962, Robert Mulligan made a movie version of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Both the book and the movie are set in Maycomb, Alabama and tell the story through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch. In both versions, a young girl named Scout Finch tells the story of her father Atticus the attorney who tries really hard to save an innocent black man who is convicted of rape, and the story of Boo Radley a mysterious neighbor who tries to save Scout and Jem from being hurt. Throughout the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, what happens to Scout is very similar to what happens to her in Harper Lee’s novel. However, the movie is different from the book because it leaves out many characters, scenes, and is told mostly through
On Wednesday, October 11th, at 7:30 pm, Doug Varone, and Dancers, of his Company, performed at the Modlin Arts Theatre, located in Richmond, Virginia. The artistic director of these performances just so happened to be, Doug Varone, himself. I watched several dances throughout an evening's length performance. I developed a theme for each performance, by connecting them through various factors such as, movement, music, and staging, and performance. I feel that each dance together, hinted a sense of fear, isolation, and then freedom. Although there was connectivity in the dances all together, they each rendered a story of their own.
Dance is defined by Webster as “moving rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps”. However, it can also be used to sway an audience’s judgment or exhibit feelings and emotions that cannot be conveyed by the usage of verbal language. When watching a show, I would like to be able to get something out of it and with this it brought childhood memories and rung my old tomboy ways and made me realize not only is it okay to sometimes still have those tomboyish habits but also to see you don’t always have to be an adult and take everything in life seriously. During this performance two of my favorite pieces were 909 Lamentations and On the surface. I felt as if these were two of the strongest pieces throughout the whole performance.
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It’s the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician (George Balanchine
The Paramount Theatre Houston, Texas. A beautiful theatre with elegant architecture, and well-crafted sculptures, that provides a warm and inviting atmosphere. It has a convenient location with easy navigation in addition to spacious parking. Arriving at this appealing theatre helped set a positive tone about how the evening would go, which was nothing less than I had expected. I watched two performances in which I will be evaluating in this paper. The first one I will discuss is Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games. It is an Irish step dance that was choreographed by Michael Flatley and performed by the Riverdance Irish Dance Company. The second performance is an African dance choreographed by Etiene Cakpo, Kokou Gbakenou, and Jimu Makurumbandi called the African Journey. This dance was performed by Gan Sango Music and Dance.
The interests of the theatrical criticism should involve telling the arts done by dancers, communicating their message, and appraising their arts. The fundamental components of the art of dance are based on the operations that the critic can perform. Some of them include the description of the dance, the feeling, interpretation of the message, as well as the contextual explanation of the dance. The transit space is one of the arts through dance that explores various themes that captures modes of culture in powerful ways. Tuesday, January 27, 2015 on the Eisenhower Auditorium I enjoyed watching Diavolo performance. This paper presents the dance performance critique of the transit space after the Diavolo concert. The paper also presents an analysis
I became a ballet student at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in 2014. Being a high school student here gave me the opportunity to expand my horizons and take in as much art as I possibly could. During my first fall at UNCSA, I attended the Emerging Choreographers performance and was privileged to see works created by fourth year contemporary majors. These stunning works showed me the possibilities that dance holds to truly convey powerful and meaning messages. One work in particular stood out to me. It was a piece that showcased five dancers all dressed in pedestrian clothing. At first it appeared to be a casual street scene but a the music progressed one girl began making incredible sharp movements as if she was possessed. She made tiny movements of her hands and feet all the while moving a great distance across the stage. The others started going off what she was doing and all moved together as one giant body supporting the girl in the middle. She continued dancing in the most amazing way have many small movements combined with huge movements that made her seem a thousand feet tall. Intrigued I spoke to one of the dancers about the intention of the dance. She told me that the
Dance was not a new element in the theatre realm. It had been used for years as a way of interpretation of feelings of a character that the writer or director wanted the audience to feel visually. Through movement, expression of those feelings was portrayed and helped the audience to somewhat
The future, disputed over by many intellectuals, is an enigma. There is no certainty in what will occur, along with no shortage of wonder in what can come about. The future, deemed any point in time past the one humans are currently living in, is something that can only be defined by time itself. Throughout “Brave New World Revisited” by Aldous Huxley, the author speaks on the predictions of the future he made in his novel “Brave New World”, where as he seeks to justify whether or not they were accurate or irrelevant. In Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley speaks on overpopulation in “Brave New World Revisited”, he acknowledges the destructive effects overpopulation can grow to have on society, some of which are already coming about. This can be seen happening today in the way that we individuals are wrongly convicted because one’s race or ethnicity.
When it comes to one’s sexual behavior, there are many ways in which it can be expressed. Some lean more towards a traditional, conservative side while others embrace the freedom of choice and are more open to outside ideas of sexual expression. Prostitution has been around for a majority of history but its connotation has shifted. Especially recently, the ideas about what is considered normal and deviant in terms of expressing one’s self sexually have changed or evolved. When taking a deeper look into what drives this business and the women to act in such ways, it may be more complex than is appears.
In the audience, I noticed that the energy flow was greater among the live audience and performers than I have felt it watching films in the cinema. As the audience reacted to the jokes and interactions of the performers, the performers then reacted to the audience to create more energy and a more enjoyable