The Importance Of Performance In Daytona Beach

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Dance isn 't just a contribution of ideas and emotions driving through movements incorporated of motivation and passion. Dance leads each individual into the dancer 's perspective and makes the audience look through each movement as a guide of motivation with the tempo, energy, and level of their movements. The 14th of November I had the pleasure to be part of the audience of a wonderful performance in Daytona Beach.he performance consisted of seven different contemporary dances choreographed by the two co-founders and Artistic Director of Surfscape Contemporary Dance Theatre: Kristin Bender Polizzi and Rachael McClellan Leonard. The performance took place at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University showing diverse pieces to many students and adults presented in the audience. In the first dance, Symphonic Histrionic, the theme was clearly …show more content…
The performance had kind of a cold, dark, and mysterious sense to it. The rooms got dark as the performance begin and gradually some lights in front stage were in the dancers. The lighting and noises complemented the steady movements of the guys as in a peaceful way yet distorted as well as it complemented the variation in their formation with the rapid energy and movements; naturally the environment transitioned to a more turbulent one as the girls joined. Solicitude was a beautiful performance composed of Ashley Hearn and Simeon Newton (which I may say, performed beautifully as an excellent dancer who put so much grace and passion to his performance although he was injured). The performance was beautiful in a sense that connected with the audience through an emotional attachment. The slow music combined with the slow and emotional movements performed by the two dancers while interacting with each other trying to tell a melancholically story of how, in my perspective, Simeon had to keep standing and fighting for his dreams was absolutely

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