Dance Critique Essay

The traits I have obtained from dance can best be explained through the lessons I have experienced. The most valuable lesson is that critiques can either damage or improve someone; the amount of change the critique makes is for the receiver to choose. Dancing teaches that I will always be making mistakes, but a positive mindset is key. To grow as a dancer, I must respectfully listen to the critiques and make a valid effort to improve, not only for myself, but also for the team. Dancing has shaped

Music/dance 101 Alvin Ailey American Dance Company Performed by Donna Wood Dance “Cry” Dance Critique. Ballet “Cry” simply showed to us real life of all African women. Every single American people know what kind of life they went through. Therefore it touched their heard. Alvin Ailey’s “Cry” presented wonderfully combined movements, technique and emotion. Ms. Donna Wood uses tragic face, a mask of sorrow. It is a face born to cry

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

that I have chosen to identify with is the Franklin and Marshall Dance Company. The company is comprised of over 50 dancers and is supervised by three authoritative professors. Each fall, new choreographers are recruited by the company to each their choreographies, or reconstruction works of other choreographers, in the Fall Dance Concert. Each spring, the students have the opportunity to choreograph their own pieces for the Spring Dance Concert. These student choreographed pieces either presented in

Critique 1 On Friday, September 11th at 7:00 PM, I attended Dancestry by the Shay Ishii Dance Company. This performance was held by Texas State University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. The vision for the performance was to take modern dance “pioneers” and highlighting their work and contributions. The first segment of the night was highlighting Loie Fuller. Fuller was a choreographer and dancer of a unique and beautiful style of dance, using dazzling and flowing silk dresses. Her breakthrough

“SLIP” Contemporary Dance Critique As I began watching the dance, I immediately felt a connection between the elements of movement and the music of the piece as if the music was words on a page and the movements like illustrations. I also began noticing Laban characteristics of flow and space throughout the duo’s dance that coupled with the music to create imagery of a couple struggling to find strength in their relationship. I felt that the dance was extensively dependent on the music, specifically

My favorite dance of the Santa Ana Dance Festival was what you made me do from Canyon High School. The choreographer of this dance was Andrea Greene. The 3 reasons I liked this dance are the choreography, performance quality and technique. I liked the choreography for this dance because of the use of space and the use of music.An example from this dance is at the start I like how the music was the music was so perfect for this dance. Also how they use their space was so perfect to see all of them

It was a hard process because we had to learn dance moves which were popular in the 60s (when the show took place) so that way the audience would understand the show as the 60s. There was one song in particular, Nicest Kids in Town featuring the Corny Collins Kids, that took a long time to choreograph

My overall response to the dance concert is spectacular because each dance piece was moving, remarkable, and motivational. Each dance had an astounding affect on me and allowed to me repelled into the performance. These impressions came from me analyzing the dance pieces, “A Brief Study of Recent History and “One Heart, Two Worlds”, for the Spring 2016 Studio 115 Dance Concert Series at USM’s Dance and Theatre Building on May 4th. The first performance, “A Brief Study of Recent History” was choreographed

For my outside dance critique, I saw Artistic Motion's Friday, December 16th performance of The Snow Queen. Overall, it was a fantastic show, and I enjoyed it very much. Artistic Motion's production differed greatly from other ballets I have seen. In addition to having a dance school, they also have an acting school, so, The Snow Queen, involved both dancing and acting. There would be a few dancing scenes, followed by an acting scene that told the story of The Snow Queen, in an interesting way.