Performing arts

Guys and Dolls is a musical play set in the 1950s of New York City. The actors and actresses were not only portraying the characters but also singing and dancing throughout the play without forgetting a line or dance move. The actors and actresses were changing their body language by changing their arm movements or walking away from the scene. For example, in the Havana scene, the ensemble was pantomiming a fight scene and pretending to be drunk. The craps game inside the sewer used pantomiming…

Question: Does the amount of productions, (meaning musicals/plays), people have performed in have any relations to how much they like theater on a scale of one to ten? I want to know whether or not the amount of shows has anything to do with how much they like theater. Is it possible that a person who has been in a very little amount of productions versus someone who have been in more than a dozen can like theater just the same? Hypothesis: The amount of productions people have been in, has no…

Going into A Behanding in Spokane, I anticipated not liking the show. My horizon of expectations had been built up by numerous warnings that there would be excess violence and crass language (not for nothing, because plenty of rude language was indeed present), so I was prepared not enjoy the show at all. I was not nearly as shocked by the language A Behanding in Spokane as I though I was going to be. It was a key aspect of the production, and something important would have been missing if it…

The art of theatre has been around since sometime during the 6th century BC, beginning in Greece. Since then, different traditions of performance have moved across the world being influenced by other cultures. Theatre creates a world that people can escape to. They can forget about reality for the time being, filling themselves with the stories that they are telling or are being told. Technology hasn’t always played a role in the art of theatre, however lately that has been changing, with more…

Picnic Performance Critique Picnic as directed by Jack Wright, was the first play that I had ever gone to in my life. As far as a first time experience, I’d say that Picnic left me wanting more from the actors and the production overall. The two actors that I chose to focus on were those who played Hal Carter and Millie Owens; James Kern and Melissa Berger respectively. I closely examined the voices of both of these actors as well as each and every one of their movements and what they did to…

I attended The Nutcracker Christmas Carol at the campus’ Humanities Theatre. I was not sure what to expect from this play since I did even know the nutcrackers storyline. I was worried that I would not be able to write a concert report on this musical since I had never been to a live musical play, but it turned out very successful. They performed a musical skit for each storyline of this play. The live musical play was intertwined as the story was acted out. Some of them were solo performances…

The concert band just played in the winter concert earlier this month and all of you that didn’t get to go to the concert missed out on our band playing great music. The band and the director practiced endlessly to perfect their music and make it sound excellent. The phoenix high school band and choir performed a variety of songs with the theme of the current holidays which is chrismas. They have a variety of members to individual students to different levels…

The Let’s Dance Company (LDC) presented their 11th Repertoire Dance Concert on May 13th and May 14th of 2016. The performance took place at East Los Angeles College in the college’s recital hall. The artistic director of the Let’s Dance Company is Kimberly Denise Rabins and the co-director is Kristin Reutimann. The Rehearsal assistant of the Let’s dance company is Breanne Genite. All three of them choreographed different pieces of the concert. The dance concert featured many dance styles, such…

I attended the St. Ambrose University Dance Company Performance in the Rogalski Center Ballroom on Sunday, April 15th at 2pm. The dance company is a club here at St. Ambrose for students who may not have the time to fully commit to the dance team here at St. Ambrose. However, these individuals all share the love for dancing. Through this club they are able to continue to do so and practice dance without such a big time commitment. Although the time commitment is not as much, these six…

On August 21, I attended a District 9 Youth Rally. It was hosted by First Assembly of God in De Queen, AR. At this rally, the group that performed is called HSM Praise Team. (HSM stands for Hardcore Student Ministries) The members of the Praise Team are as follows: lead vocalist- Kellie Reynolds, backup vocalists- Dustin Reynolds, drummer- Johnathan Reynolds, electric guitarists- Kristen Wright, and the bass guitarist- Ryan Bowden. Also, a guest electric guitarist, Seth Cash, played with group…