Performance

one makes with their body can be a transforming experience. Whether it be slow, fast, simple or complicated, dancing has a way of telling a story; an unspoken story that can make a person reflect on themselves. The performance I went to see was called Poor People’s TV Room. This performance was composed by Okwui Okpokwasili. She worked with three other dancers named, Thuli Dumakude, Katrina Reid, and Nehemoyia Young. All of the performers were from different generations to add the differing…

development Due to our piece being the style of a theatre in education performance, we decided that we should all multirole to remind the audience that what they are watching is fictional. We also thought that by multi-rolling everybody would get an equal speaking part in the performance. The main character of this piece is a teenage boy named Zac Wainright. We decided to follow the styles of a theatre in education piece by using a stereotype of the kind of person who would take drugs and…

paragraphs. Music The performance I was responsible for editing music. The background music of our production is often used film music. For example, Up, Inside Out and Requiem For A Dream. Also, there is some sound effect used in my soundtrack, such as the sound of school Bell Ringing, small group whispering…

The two clips I chose to compare and contrast were an NYC jazz and 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…

The performance I attended was the graduate recital for a student from UTEP, Diana L. Esparza. Although not quite an orchestral performance, the music presented still incorporated many of the concepts that we have reviewed over the semester, and a handful of composers that we have reviewed as well: two of these composers being Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Giuseppe Verdi. The overall nature of the pieces selected involved various genres that incorporate a singer in its scoring, as…

Jiawei Yan, Kenneth Liao, and Yihui Liu took a bow as their audience of thirty-some undergraduate students fled the University Church. From start to finish the juxtaposition between the modern “Singer/Songwriter” and the Juilliard graduate students’ performance was conspicuous. The gap between each concert’s venue, audience, and etiquette were ways away from one another, yet some thread binds these two opposing experiences together. Music in any form and of any…

On October 22nd, 2016 I attended the Celebrate Forsythe Dance performance at The Music Center and downtown. This performance consisted of three major ballet companies all performing pieces choreographed by William Forsythe. The first dance, Pas/Parts 2016 performed by the San Francisco Ballet struck me immediately as unique as all the women were wearing what appeared to be normal colored leotards in the front, had striking jewel-toned colors on the back. The men were dressed in black and other…

were prepping to begin their performance I felt a multitude of different emotions and trained to maintain my composure because I actually became somewhat excited in anticipation. I never really realize how massive the areas I am are until I finally was sitting in my seat in the Verizon Hall, and as the rows filled up slowly but surely I became so invested in the entire atmosphere and magnitude of the performance. A few moments after my realizations the performance began. It opened up with…

with the captivated audience scribbling away every detail. With all eyes on her, she perfects the performance with the correct costume and movements, no distractors, just art. The spotlight fades out and this so called theater is revealed as Woodford County High School and the audience is her students listening to their next lesson. Renowned Sociologist, Erving Goffman, once described life as a performance and Mrs. Joyner was the lead actress in this production. Goffman studied the idea of…

Strings ‘n things and was performed on April fifteenth and sixteenth. This is meant to be an evaluation on my performance in this production. I will be explaining what I need to improve on in my arms, feet, and leg movements. Also, whether I tried my best and if I think I should move up a level in ballet. First, is my evaluation on my performance. To start with, I’d like to discuss my performance in my classes variations. My technique lacked in certain parts of the classes variation on both…