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“Belonging” , Dance Performance Critiqued
The Collin County Ensemble’s Spring Dance Concert, Dance Fusion , of November 08-
09, 2013, was a brilliant collaboration of post-modern dances performed by the
following professional dance groups : Collin Dance Ensemble; Big Rig Dance
Collective,; Perpetual Motion Dance; and Karen Stokes Dance. For my Dance
Appreciation course, I attended the matinee showing of this event at 3pm on Saturday
afternoon in the John Anthony Theater which is located at the Spring Creek campus of
CCCC in Plano, Texas. This event also was performed at 8pm Friday and Saturday and
the cost of tickets to this event was $10 for students and $15 for adults and is worth more. Amongst these amazing collaboration of dances our class individually chose a dance critique , I critiqued Belonging. The reason I chose Belonging to critique is it emotionally charged into tears which led to good cry. Belonging is choreographed by Amy Querin and is skillfully performed by the dancing artists, Michelle Moeller and Amy Nevius. Both of the choreographer and performing artists are with the popular dance company, Perpetual Motion Dance Company, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma . On a proscenium stage Belonging I noted immediately it was up to the audience to decide individually what the theme was, meaning that it’s plot less and, therefore post-modern vs. …show more content…
a modern in the style of dance. How I was able depict that the theme
was an individual decision was the stage for Belonging was set without props, with
white medium-side lights from both sides of the stage that later in the performance
only white spot lights that lit from above making the focus primarily on dancing artist
(Stevens,3)
body movements. I watched with an open mind, before arriving to plot or theme for this
Performance. {An audience should always keep an open mind when viewing art, due to
the fact it’s natural to ultimately pull aesthetic responses from personal experiences,
religion influences, cultural beliefs and whatever mood we are in that day or night.}
(Ambrosio, Nora, 12)
The choreographer was brilliant while using the elements of time, space, and energy,
whenever she created Belonging. The timing was set with a slow tempo by the music of
Silver Mt. Zion, thus creating a low energy. The two dancing artist energy was low and
Somberly while the entered from stage left and right in a controlled depressed pedestrian walk. They were in costumes that were in earth tones pajama wear, wearing a minimum makeup, and with bare feet. The music is instrumental; the lightning, no props, and dancers costumes in all create a sober mood which progresses into a urgent somber mood as the tempo increases and decreases in timing. In dance performance, Belonging, when the two dancers meet at center stage, a disagreement begins to be depicted between the two artist by the use of limited amount space stage left to right with pedestrian hand gestures and positioned vertically face towards one another. Then the dance moves into several dance move that are motifs that give an expression of urgency and neediness. At first, the movements made were whole body movements at medium, to high, to low in space flowing into one another, several phases of motifs expressed over and over throughout