Choreography

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…

“THE RED SHOES” Over the years, there have been several movies in which attempts have been made to capture the spirit and the beauty, the romance and the enchantment of the ballet. And, inevitably, in these pictures, ballets have been performed, a few times with charm and sincerity but more often—and unfortunately—without. However, there has never been a picture in which the ballet and its special, magic world have been so beautifully and dreamily presented as the new British film, "The Red…

Question 1: Christopher Bruce - Ghost Dances Christopher Bruce, being an avid dancer for the majority of his life, also emerged as a choreographer and an artistic director. When Christopher Bruce was a young boy, his legs were damaged by polio. His father encouraged him to dance at the Benson Stage Academy, where he learnt various dance styles, including ballet, tap and acrobatic dance. At the age of 18 years old, Bruce was accepted into the Rambert School Academy of dance where he…

Rooster is piece of work created by Christopher Bruce, based upon the attitude and behavior of people within a society he grew up in. The music was also created by the rolling stones which was a band popular at the time and relate greatly to the time period. This piece was created for Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genèvre, it was then first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Genèvre on the 10 October 1991. The year after it premiered in Britain when he worked with the London Contemporary Dance…

The Art of Healing was performed by the Ailey Ⅱ company in the Grand Opera House in Wilmington, which started at 7:30pm on October 28th, 2016. The show started at 7;30 pm and lasted for about one an hour and a half. And it included three dances and two intermissions. The dances were Circular, Sketches of Flames, and Revelations. Circular and Sketches of flames are newly choreographed dances by Jae Man Joo and Bridget L. Moore respectively. While Revelations is was originally choreographed by…

Take 30 seconds before reading this and think of what a dancer is to you. If you go by the Merriam Webster definition, a dancer is someone who “moves one's body rhythmically usually to music” or even worse “to move or seem to move up and down or about in a quick or lively manner.” Although the first definition isn’t wrong (the second definition is borderline insulting) a true dancer is much more complex. Definitions aside, when you think of a dancer you might think of the dance line at your…

Sixteen weeks filled with endless hours of practice, learning choreography, learning formations and perfecting transitions. Dozens of individual dancers moving in unison as a unit, a family, showcasing our legacy. Twenty years worth of sweat, sacrifice, and vulnerability will be displayed on stage tonight. This was not my first performance or concert, but none were this monumental. The twentieth anniversary of Hypersquad. As the sun begins to set the sky ablaze in shades of red, orange, and…

Philadelphia, Rennie Harris is a renowned hip hop choreographer, educator and revolutionary contemporary concert dancer. He holds two honorary doctorate degrees from Bates and Columbia college and is a 1996 recipient of the Pew fellowship in the Arts for choreography. He has received three Bessie Awards for his work “Rome & Jewels”, an award from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the city of Philadelphia Cultural Fund, a Pew Repertory Development Initiative grant and a 1996 Philadelphia…

What are the fundamentals of creating Choreography? We didn't necessarily have a unit on this, but you learned how to choreograph and what's important to remember when choreographing. What do you remember being repeated over and over again before you began choreographing? Some of the most important…

Dubbed as the “man who saved tap dancing”, Savion Glover has provoked a stylistic revolution within tap dancing and has inspired many young dancers all over the country with his hip-hop-funk and jazz-infused rhythm tap dance style. How did a seven-year-old go from being a young drummer to one of the most inspiring, and influential tap dancers today? Tap dance is an art form that is characterized by its use of percussive sounds through the tap shoes striking the floor. Although the art of tap…