“Revive” is a work specifically about a husband and wife who are having relationship problems and are trying to repair their broken relationship. Likewise, the meaning of the dance could be more general and be taken to be about failed romantic relationships and the trials and tribulations that those people in the relationship go through to try and amend what is broken. One can tell that the piece has a romantic connotation because the dancers sensually touch each other and are constantly looking at one another throughout the dance. Likewise, it is easy to tell that the dancers have a failed relationship that they are trying to repair because, throughout the piece, the dancers dance literally together and close to each other. This piece was
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The dancers proceeded to do a fierce chair section where the female is dancing on and about the black chair while the male sensually looks her up and down. At first, the female is laying across the chair, but at some point makes her way to standing firm and strong on top of the chair so that she can look down at the male dancer. At this point, the male intensely stares at her like he is in love but she really isn’t looking at him super directly yet. She is just glancing down at him. At the same time though, the male runs his hands down the standing females’ body and she does a wiggle down with her hips. The female also does some leg swings and kicks. As a whole, the dancers’ movements are stiff but flowy at the same time. After a few seconds of doing chair work, the dancers depart from the chair and physically stop dancing so close to one another but they remain near each other in the space. The dancers continue to dance separately until they come back together for a lift where she’s in an x position behind his head and somehow comes over him to be able to slide down his leg and let her arm graze his leg as she comes down. The chair part and the big lift serves as a way to let the audience know that the dancers are slowly working on their relationship issues and are coming together as one
The dancers proceeded to do a fierce chair section where the female is dancing on and about the black chair while the male sensually looks her up and down. At first, the female is laying across the chair, but at some point makes her way to standing firm and strong on top of the chair so that she can look down at the male dancer. At this point, the male intensely stares at her like he is in love but she really isn’t looking at him super directly yet. She is just glancing down at him. At the same time though, the male runs his hands down the standing females’ body and she does a wiggle down with her hips. The female also does some leg swings and kicks. As a whole, the dancers’ movements are stiff but flowy at the same time. After a few seconds of doing chair work, the dancers depart from the chair and physically stop dancing so close to one another but they remain near each other in the space. The dancers continue to dance separately until they come back together for a lift where she’s in an x position behind his head and somehow comes over him to be able to slide down his leg and let her arm graze his leg as she comes down. The chair part and the big lift serves as a way to let the audience know that the dancers are slowly working on their relationship issues and are coming together as one