The next movement I noticed was two dancers doing a kind of “stomping” on the stage. This conveyed a very tribal message to me. Finally, I noticed in movement in which the performer twirled in place on stage. This gave me a sense of relaxation. The sound score starts out very tribal but then transforms into a slightly more sophisticated musical composition.
Alvin Ailey’s: Revelations is a Gospel Performance show. Alvin Ailey was an American choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. He was known for popularizing modern dance and brining forth the participation of African-American in the 1900s. Ailey's choreographic masterpiece Revelations is believed to be the best known and most often seen modern dance performance. In Revelations, there are seven sections that we watched in class.
With string, brass, woodwind, and percussion the music became dramatic and kind of heavy mood to it. I think the concert went well, organized, and great performance. I like how they did where they have a dance performance, for me it’s very unusual for a concert or a symphony concert to have a ballet dance with the orchestra. I would go again and recommend it to someone who also loves to listen to this type of
The visual the dance created was very beautiful with the projection of the rye field on the background and the balloons floating in the breeze just as the field would move. From the audience, I felt like I was watching them all dance in the rye field. To me, it started out like they were survivors of something serious and everyone was helping hold each other stand strong. As the dance progressed the battle for survival became serious for the dancers. I felt that by the end of the dance there was one leader and the remaining people were all trying to escape the situation.
From my opinion this movie over a whole was great. Real reactions to real situation’s. It kept me interested with the kid’s witty banter towards their dance class as well as everything around them. To some people dance is just a hobby but to some of these kids it’s their dream to become a famous dancer, they would prefer this for their career when they grow up. Honestly my favorite part of the documentary would be when
Aether is communication through movement, trying to send a message and is difficult to define. In the beginning of the piece the dancers use alot of typing hand and finger movement which becomes their motif, creating lots of movement and steps with the motif. They don’t dance in unison in this piece but dance through special relationships and the occasional partner work. Movements were very robotic and sharp flick dynamic in this dance, but some aspects were flowy showing contrast between movements which fit in with the white noise of the music. Towards the end of the dance they hold hands and create different movement that is more human like.
Abe Burrows explains this in his autobiography Honest, Abe. While How to Succeed... was in its early development, producer Cy Feuer attended a trade show and was extremely impressed by an elaborate dance number created by Lambert, prompting Feuer to hire Lambert to choreograph the new musical. According to Burrows, it soon became clear in rehearsals that Lambert's creative abilities were completely used up in that one elaborate dance number. Bob Fosse was brought in to replace him, but Fosse was unwilling to hurt Lambert's career by having him fired. Lambert's trade-show dance number was recycled as the "Treasure Hunt" dance in How to Succeed..., while Fosse agreed to take a "musical staging" credit for choreographing all the other dance numbers.
This year on April 10th, 2013 marked my first year in attendance of Kinetic Expressions which was put on by Berea College’s own Artist in Modern Motion. Upon arriving at the show, my expectation was limitless because a few of my fellow classmates were performing that night. I watch these dancers every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and knew of the charisma and uniqueness my classmates always brought to the dance floor. I couldn’t imagine what the energy level was going to be like in an actual live performance. There were many performances that I enjoyed and they ranged from different types of dancing to the expressions they portrayed.
In 1982 he received “The Kennedy Center Honors”, and went on into 1985 receiving a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American Film Institute. In 1990 Gene got remarried to Patricia Ward, a writer. He worked very hard at writing his autobiography, but sadly on February 2, 1996 he died from a series of strokes, and never finished. In my opinion Gene Kelly will always be remembered by his unorthodox style of dancing, he said when asked about his dancing technique. "I don't have a name for my style of dancing...It's certainly hybrid...I've borrowed from the modern dance, from the classical, and certainly from the American folk dance – tap-dancing, jitterbugging...But I have tried to develop a style which is indigenous to the environment in which I was reared."
I’m a dancer who likes to dance to any music that I can easily make up choreography to. Whenever I always listen to music I tend to create a dance in my mind out of the song I am listening to. Honestly I really can't sum my life up only on one page but I’ll do my best. I love to laugh and have a good time, I'm usually smiling and if I’m not, most likely something’s wrong. I laugh over the littlest and stupidest things.