Choreography

Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is a sculpture created in 1881 by Edgar Degas. The model of the sculpture is Marie Van Goerhem, a daughter of a Belgian Laundress and tailor. Degas uses Marie Van Goerhem to depict an activity that the fourteen-year-old girl participates which is ballet. The sculpture appears to be bronze and tinted with cotton skirt and a white ribbon in the back of her hair. The little girl’s head is tilted upward with her shoulders pulled back. Degas is a French artist who…

“I had a blue bicycle, they have my blue bicycle” is a piece choreograph by Marina Mascarell Martinez that includes three dancers and instrumental music. The dance starts out with only one dancer with minimal leg movements before a male came out onto the stage about one forth of the way into the piece. The last dancer comes half way through the performance. This piece, besides some grunts and breathing, was silence except for the instrumental background music. The piece begins with a solo…

Did you know that Claire Danes was a psychology student before she made her acting career? The American actress started her acting career as Angela Chase in “My So-Called Life.” And after that, her career soared with the addition of many more projects. But one thing not a lot of people know is that she attended Yale University between 1998 until 2000. She only enrolled for two years. She took psychology as her major. However, she did not finish her higher education. Halfway through, KR CR Tv…

Dance Review Form Name of the Dance Event: Axis Dance Company Date you attended the event November 2,2016 (Review must be turned in within 14 days of this date.) Where was the event held? Young Auditorium 1. Who was/were the dancer or dancers involved? [Note: you don’t need to list all of the names if it’s a large dance company.] Who was the choreographer? The dancers were Alivia Schaffer, Dwayne Scheuneman, Julie Crothers, and James Brown. The choreographers were Maurya Kerr, Alex…

What Nijinsky did on May 1913 was very much unexpected by the audience at that time. Everyone who was watching the performance at that time was probably shocked of what was happening on that stage. After around 70 years, after the American stage revived Nijinsky’s ballet, his became acceptable and very well recognized as a master piece. The reason why at the first preformunce of Le Sacre du Printemps the audience raged was because they were not prepared for watching that. Perhaps to them…

New York City- Kelvin Martinez 27, wakes up in a rush desperately sorting through his spare change jar in hopes of finding enough money to pay for a train ride to work. However the money that he did find was just enough to get to work, he had no idea what he was going to do when he had to go back home. Besides being stressed over his financial situation he was also concerned about being able to maintain his job. Kelvin was on his final notice after habitually being late to work due to the…

Today, I watched a video on a dance called the “Mambo”. The video was sort of interesting because it was a type of dance that I wasn’t familiarized with. In the video I could see that the girl was dressed in a very weird way. A man and a woman danced together, so I can assume that the Mambo is a partnered dance. In the video, I really liked what the man and woman were wearing. The woman was showing off her hips and she was wearing shoulder shimmies, so the element of costuming has to be very…

The Lindall Finley Wortham Theatre is located on the campus of the University of Houston. It is a well-maintained campus with easy to navigate road, and has spacious parking directly in front of the theatre. It is a small, simple theatre with a cozy feel and comfortable seating. There were only a handful of attendees which made for a very pleasurable afternoon with little distractions during the performances. The seats were slanted down toward the stage and I sat in the center of the theater…

On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, I had the pleasure of viewing AXIS Dance Company. The show was help at the NJPAC in Newark New Jersey, at 7:30 pm. Prior to viewing the show; I possessed little to know information on the company. This was a new concept for me: I usually like to do a lot of research before I go to see a dance company. I wanted this time to be different. Upon picking a dance company to go see live, I stumbled upon the AXIS Dance Company, I had never heard of this particular dance…

The Lindall Finley Wortham Theater is located in Houston, Texas at the University of Houston. The décor of the exterior is impressive. Its large glass windows give on passers and guests a glimpse of the lobby, which is brightly illuminated by several lights. My arrival to the theater was early. I was kindly greeted by the friendly staff as I entered the theater. Once inside the venue, I quickly noticed the nice intimate feeling of the theater. Its seats wrapped around the moderately sized venue,…