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
It added emphasis to the music; it was used as reinforcement. There were parts where the female dancers would take the stage. They did very pretty formations. The music stopped for couple of 8 counts and during this time the dancers were still dancing, but all you would be able to hear was the sounds of the rattles on their legs. It made the music to which they were dancing, the music sounded so peaceful but at the same time it really went with the music that had been playing.
Ethan Gundry FOLK-F301 Week 11 Journal Drum Gahu by David Locke (Chapter 1) Week 11’s reading, Chapter 1: Introduction from the book Drum Gahu, provides great insight as to how the author became interested in African music. The first two sections provided a lot of great background about the author’s first trip to Ghana and his teaching experiences that have evolved to form his book, Drum Gahu. The influence of Ewe percussion on American jazz music is certainly a surprise, but it makes sense considering that Ewe performers began to teach their drumming in the United States in the 1960’s and 1970’s. This reading is especially interesting because it is from the perspective of a musical teacher, and not the outside opinion of a traditional writer. The author truly wishes to educate the readers, “… I make no overt attempt to modify your underlying attitude and motivation” (Drum
These clips tell me that Miss Tankard’s style of choreography was extremely different and unique; by sometimes not waring shoes, or having elaborate costumes, water on the stage, talking during her pieces, elaborate stage lighting and back drops and different and unique music to compliment the dancers movement. she also did this by getting the dancers to do acrobatic movements and sequences which naturally showed off her students diversity and their
Jessica Gonzalez 9-23-09 Promethean Fire Evaluation Promethean Fire is a very complex dance that has meaning to it. This dance seems to be very particular in how it was played out. The dance was particular because the name of the dance had a lot to do with the whole dance. The movement was just like a fire moving in a fast pace and very chaotic. The dancers are all focused on the dance in what they were wearing.
D-Man in the Waters The man in the waters was a great dance through strength, stamina, and serious technical training is some of the key elements of what allows you to get through one of Bill T. Joneses dances. I really enjoyed the moments where the company did everything in unison as well as spontaneously. I’m not really a fan of the music he chose it’s kind of distracting to the choreography loud and obnoxious. I would have chosen something a little more subtle and abstract. Bill T. Jones used blue and a lot of water colors to give us the feel of the water and how it moves very rapidly in many directions.
The first piece entitled “That’s Where It’s At” seems to emphasize the idea of Black Power. This was portrayed by three African American males who fell into character perfectly. This performance was followed by another entitled “To Feel Is To Understand”, which was a soul moving experience. The dancers in this piece conveyed the song and story in such a way that it was enough to bring tears to ones eyes. The Dance Ensemble returned once more with a fast paced African piece, also executed with such force and feeling to move the audience.
At first when he signed on to do The King and I he was under the impression that “he only had to do (that) one ballet” (Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theatre, His Dance, pg 46) but he did end up choreographing many other dance sequences like “Getting to Know You” or “The March of the Siamese Children”. “Robbins planned the scene to delight both Anna and the audience. Some carry out their duties in exemplary fashion, which highlighted the different ones and the tiniest provide a high degree of adorable and some concern they’ll screw up” (Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theatre, His Dance, pg
The metaphor has sunk in. Along in this sentence, comes the device of foreshadowing, “fate and direction are random” are obviously words aimed at the future of us humans and our destiny. 2. “The people called these river islands the dancers, ‘because in any consort of musicians singing, they stir and move at the stroke of the feet, keeping time and measure” metaphor- “the dancers”, the nickname given to these moving islands is witty indeed, and describes their appearance as well as their motive quite well. Because they “stir and move at the stroke of the feet” it is understood that they are well adapters, dancing along their changing
Their heavy stomps and abrupt hops would form soft beats, synchronizing their movements. At a particular moment of the performance, the dancers were making a windmill action with their arms, all with different rhythms. Suddenly, to the crowd’s surprise, their arms were in unison, piercing the quiet air with the sound of their arms rubbing against their jumpsuits. The sound resembled a flock of birds taking off all at once, creating an astounding contrast from the rest of the silent performance. Other times their random movements would take the beat away, providing them with the freedom to choose their own movement speed.