Choreography

It is an extraordinary feeling to see dancers perform so well and give off the power they know the audience will love. When i view choreography through media resources, I don’t get the communication vibe as well as live performance, but, I am still able to get the communication behind the choreography and storyline. When I perform choreography, when I want to communicate a story to the audience I use every inch of my body and my facial expressions to convey it. That is how you know when…

As we auditioned for the Student Choreography Showcase, I was very nervous and anxious because it was something that really meant a lot to me and something that I wanted to share with all my classmates. During auditions, I surprised myself a lot because I picked up on choreography faster than I thought. I felt really confident in what I was performing for each choreographer. I had a couple of the choreographers call me back out to see my performance for a second time. The second time performing,…

title of Team America Rocketry Challenge champion. With our rocket in hand, my teammate stared at me with a blank expression, silently asking what’s the next step? Rather than explaining the procedure, I exclaimed, “Do the dance!” Recalling the choreography I taught her to remember the steps for assembling our rocket, she swung a cupped hand over her head then made a fist and lowered it back in front of her, which signified the first step of removing the rocket nose and placing the payload…

In class we have been discussing tools for choreography such as juxtaposition, counter point, mirroring, cannon, and many others. A piece that I found called “Framed” by M&N Dance Company displays a lot of these different tools that we have learned about these past couple of weeks. This piece was beautifully crafted and since it was a duet I believe it was very difficult to provide as much variety as they did in this piece. One of the first tools they utilized was mirroring. This was easy to…

Ever since my mother put me in tiny ballet slippers when I was three, I have been dancing. Throughout high school, dance was an important part of my life and I wanted to continue my passion for dance in college. At the college club fair the first week of school, I was looking to see what interested me and I saw the booth for the Emory-Oxford Dance team. I was informed that dance team performs at half time of the basketball games. I immediately signed up for the email list, because if I made the…

Sharira. What is particularly interesting in this performance is that it being not only about the body and it’s corporeal contours within a given choreography but also the sexed body and it’s tussles, intimacies, desires mapped out in a performance space. The performance, in my opinion hinges largely towards a kind of choreographic shift in dance that prioritises the bodily over tradition and the traditional; as also contemporary and contemporariness. During the performance, the two bodies…

across the floor and stand on pointe. I am interpreting this dance as the dancer is hearing someone or something rather than listening to it. The concept of the dance reflects the title of the piece because the dancer is expressing through the choreography the ideal…

This year’s Contemporary Choreographers production was a huge success. The conservatory did a beautiful job, the lighting and stage crew, the dancers, the rehearsal directors, and of course, the dancers. Point Park was lucky to have choreographers David Norsworthy and James Gregg create new works on the students, as well as Stephanie Martinez and Helen Simoneau set their previous works on the dancers. After seeing the show twice, as well as being a cast member of Pink Mist by James Gregg, it is…

Coppelia is based on a story by E.T.A. Hoffman. It is a three-act ballet that tells the light-hearted story of the mysterious Dr Coppélius who owns a beautiful life-sized mechanical doll. The show had original choreography by Arthur St. Léon, Coppélia is staged with additional choreography by Janek Schergen. The second performance that i had watched was a Chinese dance from Poi Ching School, Hwa Chong Chinese Dance Alumni and Xin Yi Dance Company showcase the unique beauty and strength of…

years by major ballet companies and famous ballet dancers. It is a satisfying saga of love, longing, betrayal, death, and transcendence, brought to the stage with beautiful choreography and wonderful music. According to Juhasz, although companies have usually made changes to Petipa and Ivanov’s nineteenth-century choreography to suit the aesthetic of the time or a particular choreographer’s vision, all in all most versions continue to follow the original specifics and in spirit (54-83). Swan…