Dance concert Critique
Dance Concert Critique
When I thought of dance for the first time, I believed it was just simplistic movement and structured choreography. However, dance can be interpreted as a story versus just following a beat through its unique body language, musical composition, and set of props. The Fall Dance Theatre demonstrates these traits extensively within its performances specifically the pieces “In Sleep, We Dream” and “I’m Still with You”.
The performance “In Sleep, We Dream” has two different sections; the former represents felling into a sleep and the latter represents the act of dreaming. The first part starts with three girls in gray and pink fabric dresses and the background resembles a memorial park at night. There is also a casket in the middle of the stage as stars twinkle in the sky. Suddenly they come through and dance without music while the lights are still dark. The choreography was made up of jumping and leaping all over the stage, prancing from one foot to another, and rolling on the ground to symbolize the ambiguity and secrecy that goes on in the night. One after another the dancers disappeared into darkness. Shortly after, another three girls who wear gray-blue dresses stepped out onto the stage, each one being wearing a specific muffler to help distinguish themselves from one another. At the same time, music with a sweet melody begins and brings the second part of the performance into play. The dancers strut in a whirl-like motion to symbolize how angels fly freely in the sky, amongst the bright lights. The previous dancers who disappeared previously began to come out from the back side of the stage. Both of them are danced separately at first before they finally started to dance together. Orchestral symphony music filled with uplifting, harmonious sounds accompanied the six girls to represent their harmony with reality and ideals. One of the girls opens the casket in the middle, and slowly the dancers who wore mufflers put their mufflers into
When I thought of dance for the first time, I believed it was just simplistic movement and structured choreography. However, dance can be interpreted as a story versus just following a beat through its unique body language, musical composition, and set of props. The Fall Dance Theatre demonstrates these traits extensively within its performances specifically the pieces “In Sleep, We Dream” and “I’m Still with You”.
The performance “In Sleep, We Dream” has two different sections; the former represents felling into a sleep and the latter represents the act of dreaming. The first part starts with three girls in gray and pink fabric dresses and the background resembles a memorial park at night. There is also a casket in the middle of the stage as stars twinkle in the sky. Suddenly they come through and dance without music while the lights are still dark. The choreography was made up of jumping and leaping all over the stage, prancing from one foot to another, and rolling on the ground to symbolize the ambiguity and secrecy that goes on in the night. One after another the dancers disappeared into darkness. Shortly after, another three girls who wear gray-blue dresses stepped out onto the stage, each one being wearing a specific muffler to help distinguish themselves from one another. At the same time, music with a sweet melody begins and brings the second part of the performance into play. The dancers strut in a whirl-like motion to symbolize how angels fly freely in the sky, amongst the bright lights. The previous dancers who disappeared previously began to come out from the back side of the stage. Both of them are danced separately at first before they finally started to dance together. Orchestral symphony music filled with uplifting, harmonious sounds accompanied the six girls to represent their harmony with reality and ideals. One of the girls opens the casket in the middle, and slowly the dancers who wore mufflers put their mufflers into