I Have My Blue Bicycle Analysis

“I had a blue bicycle, they have my blue bicycle” is a piece choreograph by Marina Mascarell Martinez that includes three dancers and instrumental music. The dance starts out with only one dancer with minimal leg movements before a male came out onto the stage about one forth of the way into the piece. The last dancer comes half way through the performance. This piece, besides some grunts and breathing, was silence except for the instrumental background music. The piece begins with a solo dancer doing some dishes. She is standing in one place and only using her arms. She repeats the motions of washing the dishes and as it progress, she, and her motions, becomes more frantic, highlighting the tension she has since the beginning. This abruptly ends when the second dancer stealthily moved towards her and stood behind her. On stage now are a male and a female as they struggle with power dynamics. The pauses at the beginning of their dance give way to more momentum and airbase movement as they continue with the interplay. They’re not always …show more content…
In class, we play around with space, which they do here, especially when the third dancer comes in. The high and low were also utilizes as well as the tempo, with the meaningful pauses throughout the piece. While we did play around with spacing in class, this piece seems very contain. Even though the dancers use the whole stage, what really caught my attention is that when they are struggling and in contact with one another, the physical space is very limited. It is almost if they are directly on top of each other to minimize space usage when doing these moves. It seems like it is contain within a perimeter. Perhaps this is to say that when people struggles and feel like they are being pull in different directions, it is really only inside their minds, and the containment of the piece showcases