Todd Rosenlieb Dance Analysis

The male dancer only wore pants and bared his upper body. This simple costume design not only made the people who watch the dance to have a clear vision of the dancer, but also better presented a predicament that the character was experiencing at that time. At the first half of the dance, the dancer would leave at least one part of his body on the bench, and tried hard to reach other parts of his body away. This muscular interplay between the dancer and the bench resonated with the audience to experiencing the same struggle feelings as the character. As the performance developed, the dancer started to leave the bench to fully use the space. The dancer had many different movements comparing with sitting on the bench previously. He started to lie down, roll over, stand on the bench and make a turn use only one foot. The level of the dance was no longer limited in the middle but changing from low to high as well. Having such a change, the dancer is converting a more delight and energetic feeling to the audience, in order to demonstrated that the character was recovered through the

“The Best Dancer” is filled with many different themes. One theme that is demonstrated is to never have too much selfishness and never be too overconfident. In the text it states, “She looked down. The earthworms she had collected in the morning were draped across her shoulders… Sally winked at her. “Nice try”, she mouthed. Sally got the lead that year.” This is a crucial moment because it shows that Annabelle boasted too much, and so Sally figured out her plan and it backfired on Annabelle. This quote helps us understand that being boastful would only turn against you, and the same with being overconfident. It shows the importance of being content with you talents and not making others feel bad. Therefore, it is evident that “The

When the show actually began, it started with a digital green timer on the wall counting by the second, accompanied by Mr. Jones sitting at a desk with a desk lamp. He began to read a story as a single dancer in a pink long sleeved top danced beside him. This dancer was definitely the most memorable mover of the company due to her exquisite fluidity within her movement, as well as the desirable synchronization between her movements and the words of Mr. Jones’s voice throughout the piece. As the performance carried on, the other dancers performed various solos, duets, and quartets, of modern movement while Mr. Jones’s stories carried on.

I have two first impressions after reading the book That Deadmans Dance. The author Kim Scott uses vivid imagery to describe the landscapes and the characters dialog. As Scott was describing the sea and the landscapes it brought back my early childhood. I spent time as an adolescent living on an Umnak Island in the middle of the Aleutian chain located in the bearing sea of Alaska. All of Scott’s imagery brought back the times I spent watching the whales migrate listening and feeling the wind and sea beat against my skin. I enjoyed remembering my youth while reading this book.

The next piece was entitled “Satin and Tulle”. It began with a dancer in pointe ballerina shoes and a leotard coming out towards the audience and dropping pointe ballet shoes in front of us. The dancers were pulling what seemed to be the ribbons on a pointe ballet shoe out from backstage onto the stage. The ribbons were the focal point on this performance. The dancers then became tangled up in the ribbons, almost as if the dancers were lost within their passion of dance, and continued to dance in perfect unision. The dancers would place the ribbons around their necks, like the dancers wanted to harm themselves. With the music, I noticed that whenever the music became very loud and busy, the dancer would

The female dancer re-enters the stage sans the blue shirt/shorts and repeats the gestures with a bit more feeling, and the male does the same thing after the female exits. The next time the female enters the stage, she is only in the colorful bra and black briefs. The male enters the stage in a black bra and colorful underwear. The color in the costumes sends a message of the differences between males and females, but the black undergarments lean towards blurring the lines of gender. The lights get brighter as clothing is shed. The two performers fully embody the gestures now, and seem to have more of an intimate connection with one another. The music constantly seems to be an underscore of the dance, but does not add much to it. The dancers share weigh and partner with more sensuality, and eventually are silhouetted with blue light as they return to gesture and awkward ballroom partnering. The lights fade as they continue to move.

It was as if the dancers were speaking to each other without words. All of the ballerinas wore point shoes and there was an emphasis on the female character of Coppelia. Also, the orchestral music and dancing went together perfectly.

I watched “Mark Morris Dance Group Spring,Spring,Spring (excerpt 1)” and I thought the dance was about spring and each person represented a flower or plant blooming in the season. All of the colorful pants men were wearing could have represented the different colored leaves on the trees. There was a part in the dance where they were all spinning in a circle and there was a gap between two girls. I found this part interesting because it could have represented how in spring, nothing is ever set in stone and things are always changing and the hole in the circle may have represented the gap for change and improvement.

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

AMSTERDAM — Obviously I know, but what fascinates me is how this human dance could be a response to almost any event - good or bad - the camera phones, the monopods and selfie sticks, press photographing the press. And about how watching the event through our device screens we miss things like the boats lying across the water, or the two people in the middle, maybe individuals, maybe friends caught up in

On April 28th at the George R brown convention center I saw West Side Story. The dance numbers in West Side Story were choreographed by Julio Monge. Julio Monge was in charge of bringing Jerome Robbins Iconic West Side Story Choreography to life. Julio Monge moved from the island of Puerto Rico to Manhattan. Once in manhattan he was in broadway shows such as “ Jerome Robbins Broadway”.The director of this performance was Francesca Zambello. Francesca Zambello is a opera and theater director. She has directed many performances such as “Aida” and “Rin Cycle:show boat”.

Have you ever been to a New York City Theatre show? Or even to a local dance recital? In, “I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes” by Emily Dickinson, you learn what it would be like to be those people, the ballet dancers performing. Of course, you wouldn’t really know what it’s like unless you actually are a dancer, dancing in a recital or on Broadway.

On May 21, I visited the Boston Opera House to see the Boston Ballet perform “Swan Lake,” with my mom and my sister. The music was by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, conducted by Jonathan McPhee, and played by the Boston Ballet Orchestra. It’s no surprise that after more than 100 years, “Swan Lake” is still considered one of the most beloved of all classical ballets. It was set to a dramatic, tunefully memorable score by Tchaikovsky and was based on a fanciful folktale full of love, magic, betrayal, and promises of salvation. Last night’s performance was one I will never forget. The music was graceful, elegant, and breathtaking. My favorite scene was when Prince Siegfried fell in love with Odette, the Swan Queen, as she appeared from mist of the

The first video we saw was “The Men Who Danced”. It’s basically about the story of Ted Shawn's male dancers from1933-1940. I was really excited to see the way they were trained and the way they were seen as. They went around doing shows and concerts and a lot of people loved them. Ted Shawn started dancing professionally by entertaining station stops of the Santa Fe Railroad. Eventually he met an amazing dancer, Ruth St. Denis and married in 1915. They both were amazing dancers that they both established the Desnishawn School. That’s how everything started, that school became the most influential back in the 20 centuries. They both brought Modern Dance to America to have something different than ballet. Everything went bad because of the Great

How often do you stop to take in the moment? Imagine a man who is not as happy as he