Performance art

The cultural dance video from this week's assignment that drew my interest the most was the commercialized hula performance. This video stood out the most to me because I have never actually sat and watched hula dancing before so when I opened this video it immediately had me sucked in. The very beginning sequence before any dancing started when the girl placed the lai over the camera was so interesting and captivating. Also, the bright colors and fast paced hip movements were also factors that…

childhood. I am talking about my shy, red face during my music performance or reading a poem in front of the class. I felt myself again a shy, little girl. But my major is Education. I love kids, to teach them and learn from them. But without performing skills I will not be able to be a successful teacher. I’m so glad that I had this opportunity to participate and learn a lot of helpful strategies that will help me to improve my teaching performance during my lessons. During this course, I…

Katie Trumbull is a Senior soon to be graduate at Toledo School for the Arts who has been involved with theatre for most of her young life since she was eight years old and is planning to study Musical Theatre or Vocal Performance in college as a professional career. Recently she has appeared in some of her favorite musicals yet including The Music man (Marian) with Toledo School for the Arts, Fiddler on the Roof (Tzeitel), The Lion King Jr (Zazu), Children of Eden (Yonah) with Waterville…

contemporary company’s performance of “Steam Heat” choreographed by Lisa Donmall-Reeve and Lindsey’s Stirling’s performance of a Les Miserables medley. Both clips exhibited a high degree of musicality and grabbed my attention almost immediately. They incorporated lighting and costuming with an incredible mastery to enrich the performance. I highly enjoyed the music that accompanied both dances and thought that the choreography worked well with the music. While both works of art have incredibly…

Throughout this Semester I had the task of going to three musical performances and reviewing them. The first performance I attended was Hairspray, this took place at North Central College at the Red Horse Theatre which my friend invited me to see with her. Overall this performance was very organized and the tempo sustainability was upbeat throughout the entire time. I was very impressed how drawn the audience was and how there was never a dull moment. These things fall under the category of…

On November 5,2016 Olney Central College’s music department held its fall concert in the Dr. John D. Stull Performing Arts Center. This concert featured many vocalists and musicians between the concert band, the concert choir, and the jazz band. The performances feature many different composers. Overall, the concert band sounded really good. For this concert, the director chose songs that would reflect different stages of life. I liked this theme and the song choices just for how the rhythms,…

dance would not include the dance, but this dance includes the audience’s full attention throughout the entirety of the performance. Then the choreographer introduces the form of nakedness to the viewer. Nakedness is what makes the viewer discomforted, but the choreographer pushes through that normative view and introduces people’s body in the dance. Nakedness is a form of art, so it is only proper to introduce nakedness in the dance. While…

series of events that lead up to her prom night whilst battling to keep her newfound telekenis powers secret. Fighting the musical stereotype of light heartedness and humour, Ms Shannon Browne, a chorus member for the musical states that their performance will have darker themes than what may be expected. “... there’s a lot of reoccurring themes of severe taunting and bullying... as an audience you will feel helpless as you watch on...” Ms Browne said. Ms Brown…

their own individual style infused with their costume pieces. This specific video shows the art form in a competition setting, so the spacing is very specific and the dancers take plenty of time to make sure it is correct. However, I find it very interesting that the dancers do not take as much time in their costumes to match as we do in Western competition style dance. To me this says the art form is meant to be expressive for the…

Only in the arts does one obtain the ability to both find themselves and loose themselves simultaneously. For the performer, energising, exhilarating, a chance to become someone or something else, to become your alter ego, to charm, dazzle and delight audiences, and for the spectator, an intriguing and entertaining experience of the demonstration of human life, their wildest dreams or scariest nightmares Theatre and performing arts have always been a huge part of my life since a very young age,…