CSULB Dance In Concert Response Paper 21st of May, California State University of Long Beach held the CSULB Dance In Concert at Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater with the collaboration and choreography by the CSULB dance faculty such as Colleen Dunagan, Rebecca Lemme, Sophie Monat, Andrew Vaca, and featuring guest Laurel Jenkins and Doug Varone. From the show, the dances represented through various genre such as contemporary, contemporary ballet, and modern dance. The element of contemporary defines
The World Music and Dance Concert series this year was diverse in their expression of the different countries represented. For example, countries such as Haiti, The United Kingdom, North India, China and many African countries were represented during the performance. Between both their representation of typical music and dances performed, the concert accurately depicted what a typical scenario in each country would look like. The atmosphere of the performance can be described as exciting and optimistic
Critical analysis of “RDT” I attended the Repertory Dance Theater concert on March 5, 2016 at 7:30 PM in the Snow College Theater - Eccles Center for Performing Arts. The concert was held because the Repertory Dance Theater was celebrating their 50th Anniversary. Dancers were touring around Utah and performing in almost every city. Concert consisted of five choreographed dance performances that lasted for about 2 hours. They were performed in this order: Suite from Mazurkas, Jack, Crippled up blues
Ending Movement “If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let 's face it.” –Alvin Ailey. Alvin Ailey was an African American dancer and choreographer, born in 1931 in Rogers, Texas. Ailey was responsible for creating one of the most popular dance companies of the twentieth century, known as the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. The forming of this company began due to Ailey’s life long passion for dance, and his dream to give African American dancers
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
Concert Intime is a wonderful dance performance which was held in April 9, 2016 at Chapman University. Two directors Alicia Guy and Liz Maxwell, professional choreographers, and talented Chapman students brought audiences an intimate and colorful evening with seven performance pieces. They were Innumerable, Metamorphosis, Children of the Drum, All as One, and And the Winner Is. In each piece, audiences could enjoy a unique story in the past or modern life and a great combination of customs, light
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
In one my classes; Dance Appreciation, I had an assignment to view a dance piece on YouTube. The dance that I viewed was called “She without arm, he without leg, Hand in Hand”. The dance was not only informative, but it was enlightening to watch. I liked the dance piece because the dancers were limited physically in their bodies, but their dancing was beyond limited and astounding. At first, I was a bit doubtful and sceptical before watching the dance because I thought the dancers were going to
The Let’s Dance Company’s 11th Repertoire Dance Concert was amazing and entertaining. This was the third dance concert that I have seen by the LDC and the dance concerts just keep getting better and better. I was entertained throughout the concert and impressed by all the dancers. The concert allowed me to see the hard work members from the first concert I saw, the LDC’s 10th Repertoire Dance Concert, put into improving themselves as a dancer and performer. All the dancers performed great and looked
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