What Stomp At The Fox Theatre Downtown St. Louis

always been known for the risky and powerful movements which are often why dancers retire from the company. The dancer’s movements were often very intense and emotive, such as the “throws” across the stage in which the dancers would, almost violently, launch themselves across the stage in different forms (leaps, falls and flips to name a few). Another section where the movements were emotive is where the dancers were thrusting their hips in different positions to perhaps show sexuality in “self”.

It’s amazing to listen to musicians who do not normally play with each other come together and leave the audience in complete awe. That is exactly what happened on the day of Thursday November 26th 2014. The Bill Crothers Varsity Winds comprised of grade eleven and twelve students along with a few, talented grade tens went to listen to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra play. We travelled via a typical yellow school bus that took us to Roy Thomson Hall where we went right to the top level and took our seats. The seating seemed rather helpful because from a distance you could hear every instrument when you focused on it. It was beautiful. The band presented well with their “Penguin” like attire that was kind to the eyes. They appeared very organized,

The beat in this section builds up as more percussion is added. Similarly, dancers gradually feed on to the stage as the levels of percussion increase. The dancers walk, isolating their hips down stage Right then break off into trios as they rise and fall with the syncopating drum. E.g. with steps, turns, leg lifts and back bends.

In a small recreational center in Charlotte, North Carolina came together a group of individuals with immense talent. These accomplished individuals not only shared a love for the performing arts, but a profound love for their grieving community. The Listen Up! semi-annual showcase was put together in the wake of the Keith Lamont Scott incident which shook up the Charlotte community. Tyrone Jones and the Charlotte Symphony wanted to give the people an outlet for expressing their emotions about current events, and so, they put together the Listen Up! showcase. Expertly crafted, Tyrone Jones and the Charlotte Symphony were profoundly effective at blending various forms of performing arts into one cohesive show that addressed current events,

On April 11th, 2017 in the Louis Armstrong Theatre, I attended the GVSU “University Band”. This up-beat ensemble lasted about 90 minutes; the talented students of GVSU’s university band joined together to perform multiple different songs ranging from a Waltz to a Dixieland Jamboree. All of the songs that the band played for the audience were all well-known, popular songs that they all enjoyed. Having the opportunity to attend this concert has opened new musical paths for myself and has allowed me to enjoy and kindly critique something that I perhaps would have never had the chance to otherwise.

It is Saturday, November 14, 2015 at Mesa, Arizona. A large crowd occupies large spaces all over downtown attending different stages of the first Mesa Musical Festival. Facing the Automotive Callahan Stage at Il Vinaio Restaurant, and only moments after a Rock 'n Roll band finish its performance, the place begins to fill with a public made up of many familiar faces. Voices in Spanish are confused with the English. Suddenly, some musicians begin to take the stage. Six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen people in total with a lot of musical instruments: keyboards, drums, congas, trumpet, bass, guitars, maracas, cuatro. The music starts, and immediately the public begin jumping, singing,

Now the music filled our ear and the dancers rushed out to the center of the stage with kicks, jumps, and arm swings that gave it a hip-hop, jazz with a little ballet vibe that stood out from other dances. It felt as if you were in the big city at night. People are rushing back and forth creating an intense feeling with the music picking up pace as well.

The dance portrayed shadowing and unison in its setup, there was use of speed in the movement of legs and hands and the speed changes as the dance continues. The dancers appeared with a white hip-hop long baggy pant with a bare chest. The dancers started with backing the audience and then turned in uniform and faced the audience and demonstrated an expansive degree of body movement and flexibility in the use of space which goes in uniform with the rhythm and this performance presented the audience with a sincere view of the essence and spirit of hip-hop rather than the commercially exploited stereotypes portrayed by the

In the song “This is Halloween” the group dance number focuses on sharp and fast movements with a variety of contorting body maneuvers. The dancers almost appear to be possessed on the stage at some points in the phrases. When the music’s tempo speeds up during the chorus the dancers speed up their movements and sharpen each hit on the beats. In one phrases the dancers disorderly tort their

The instrumentation of the show included a piano, bass, drums, saxophone, trumpet, fugal horn, and soundboard. The use of popular jazz instruments further reveals the performer’s intention to give the audience a taste of the sentimental, antique tones of jazz music. As the instrumentation reveals the genre of the music being performed, the stage for the show was set up in a way that highlighted the artists performing solos during the improvisational pieces. For example, the use of lights played a large role in visually isolating the soloists. The lights used during the show only illuminated the performers that were located upstage, while there were no lights used to illuminate downstage. Thus, as performers were not playing in the piece they would move downstage into the darkness. This would cause the focus of the audience to shift to the other performers that were still playing. The intentional movement of the artists downstage reveals the artist’s intent to highlight each individual instrument in the sextet and the improvisational skills of the artist playing them. Also, the visual depiction of an artist emerging from the shadows located downstage and playing prompted the audience to clap. The clapping was also prompted after a musician finishes the personal solo improvisational piece within a song. The clapping from the audience when an instrument

Their knees wobbled as a nimble tower made of toothpicks would when a raging wind howls through, their hands shook, and their eyes were downcast. You could see any African American who suffered through critical times throughout our history in each of their faces. You watched them struggle across the stage, dancing like they were just discriminated, or judged. They danced as if they were their ancestors working in the cotton fields and drinking out of a black only drinking fountain. Later, I found that the dancer’s on the stage(in order to get them in the feeling of the Civil Rights Movement) were forced to practice in a small tight studio, or practice in a large, airy studio depending on their ethnicity. This showed the black dancers what African Americans suffered through and gave them mentality of what separation was like, so they could live in the choreography. And the realistic being of this art, of this movement, brought the audience back in time…and it made us cry and wail and

This event is the cultural event to replace my second event when I wrote about Stick Fly accidentally. The Terpsichorean Dance Company 2016 spring concert was phenomenal. It was an evening of dance, art, and culture at Ogden Hall. The concert began at 7 o’clock p.m. While watching I ruminated about a Greek myth on Terpsichore which means “delight in dancing”. She was one of the nine muses and goddess of dance and chorus. I thought that was very interesting. When the first performance began everyone was in a stand still position. It was similar to mime. Three elements that I constantly saw throughout the performance were kicks and the flow of energy from one dancer to another. I have been to many dance recitals where the dancers were not

I will first talk about the dance, “Unsung.” The dance, a homage to the American Indian, is performed in silence but for the stark thud of the dancers' feet and bodies hitting the floor. A tribute to Native American chiefs and the prowess of the male dancer, this unforgettable work is accompanied only by the physical sounds—running, stamping, leaping, breathing—of the movement. Each dancer has a solo in addition to the ensemble work. The six men move in lines and wedges, weaving shifting patterns with staccato emphasis. They seem to crowd the stage, but suddenly it is empty. Five of the men have solos here, each quite different and each suggesting some

Concerts contain so many sensations. The white chairs being put away, the stage getting placed back on the big black trailer piece by piece, and the quiet shuffles of the last feet leave the stadium; the stadium transforms into the purple and white stadium it once was, leaving no

This fall dance concert was filled with joy, darkness, torture, culture, and women's rights, right when you sit down and observe through all 8 dance performances. It would have been 9 dance routines but the dancer who was suppose to perform Hart Broken had an injury, which made a putt off. Nevertheless the show must go on, it starts off with the first and second performance, Xtra Xtra and Scar Tissue. Revealing that both performances were different themes because Xtra Xtra had the dancers in radiant colors and seemed to be energetic, whereas the performers in Scar Tissue were clothed in black attire, such as tutus, dresses, and tights, yet still energetic. This brought to my attention that the whole dance performances were contrast to each other. Throughout the routines of the dance concert, the