The title of the performance that I went to on Saturday November 7 was called FRESH Bites at the Artery. The director and choreographer of FRESH Bites is Judy Bejarano and the name of the company is IMPACT Dance Company. Costumes were created by Judy Bejarano and Jeremy Colvard, graphic designer was Stanley Scott, and the photographer was from Todd McCarty. The dance was difficult to understand but the dance was about loss, memory, and finding a path to home. There were three courses during FRESH Bites: the appetizer (loss), main course (memory), and dessert (finding pathway home). One dancer experienced loss and the others were also experiencing it in some way, so when they were remembering times from their past they weren’t able to move forward and the briefcase was the symbol of all the loss and memory. When they were finding their path, the briefcase was gone because what they were experiencing was new.
The mood throughout the dance was very mellow. During the appetizer dance one of the dancers was experiencing loss and she was mourning while the other dancers were trying to be there for her. She had a brief case. It was the symbol throughout the appetizer dance because it had candles, photos and stuff that made her remember the person who died. The main …show more content…
There are dances where the costuming is too much for the dance and I think that it defeats the purpose of the whole dance because people come to watch people perform not the look of the dancers. The quality of the movement was light for each piece; it had a lot of flow. There were some sections during the main course where the body language had some abstract elements. This was a modern dance and it reminded me of Martha Graham because she was very expressive in her movement. She really focused on the human mind and spirit. The movement was really expressive and you could tell what they were
The mood throughout the dance was very mellow. During the appetizer dance one of the dancers was experiencing loss and she was mourning while the other dancers were trying to be there for her. She had a brief case. It was the symbol throughout the appetizer dance because it had candles, photos and stuff that made her remember the person who died. The main …show more content…
There are dances where the costuming is too much for the dance and I think that it defeats the purpose of the whole dance because people come to watch people perform not the look of the dancers. The quality of the movement was light for each piece; it had a lot of flow. There were some sections during the main course where the body language had some abstract elements. This was a modern dance and it reminded me of Martha Graham because she was very expressive in her movement. She really focused on the human mind and spirit. The movement was really expressive and you could tell what they were