Mccormick's Second Dancer Analysis

Trois mains or three hands in English by McCormick opens with a prologue of three female dancers, standing close together, then later expand by moving away showing the piece has already started. Utilizing modern and ballet techniques, the piece started out with dancers travelling across the stage, later becomes more interactive when a call and response pattern is acknowledged between the dancers from the motion of their technique. The first dancer begun with a smooth pirouette towards the other two dancers. Later, the second dancer did a high clarity of lunge to her third mates. The third dancer then glided on the floor back to the first dancer. The set of movements were repeated for a moment like they were having a conversation, with a hint …show more content…
Guiding them throughout the piece was a voice of a male, throwing out random French words with the soft electronic music in the background. Thanks to my rusty French, I could understand some of the words, and it wasn’t random, but instead describe something that is tangible to French and their cultures like smoking, cheese, French language, and many more. In addition, the words were used like they would be in simple conversations, such as describing a food like a cheese or a place like a university. Some of the words are not repeated once, but even twice. For example, the word du pain which means some bread was recited thrice in the piece. This may have been a hint about the topic that the dancers were discussing or just an emphasize on the subject since it was repeated. The use of the language, which was mostly foreign to the audience, describes the ambiguity of the piece from multiple dimensions that mashes together to create a chaotic moment between the dancers themselves and the music on communication. Later, the soft electronic music intensifies into a heavier one with greater bass and rhythm which drove the dancers to move at a much faster pace and created a more serious