Dance Critique

In the dance piece, Waiting For The 46th, choreographer Ryan Thomas and dancers Jillian Bruno, Chav’nair “Chav” Stocker, and Jazmin Zavaleta explore the struggles that we may come across in our life as obstacles. The piece was performed at the Kinetic Conversations faculty dance concert at 7:00 pm on November 30th, 2017 in the Landis Performing Arts Center on the campus of Riverside City College. The dance department created this showcase to demonstrate the many talents that choreographers have in bringing a piece and telling a story that we can interpret in many different ways. Each piece gives a different interpretation by the way we view it from personal experiences to what we create in our heads from what we just saw. Dancers Jillian …show more content…
They demonstrate each struggle by having it expressed throughout their performances in sections.Their performance consists of regular beats and at a normal tempo while staying in middle and low level being locomotor. As the performance begins, they are sitting in chairs in center stage one towards stage right and left. While the two dancers are at a low level, sitting down in the chairs, the other dancer is facing towards the audience downstage. The dancer sitting towards stage right has headphones on while dancing to the beat of the song moving her upper body right and back to left swaying her upper torso. At one point the dancer begins to yell very loud as if she was hurting deeply. Meanwhile, the dancer towards stage left has her right leg on the seat of the chair close to her chest bent while reading a book but then begins to struggle in need of water.Furthermore, the dancer in downstage center begins with her legs apart symmetrical feet towards the audience and sways her body back and forth, left to right in middle level. Moving her upper body from left to right with sustained energy, swaying like a silk scarf when the breeze causally hits it slightly with the