Nicole Hennington Water From The Same Source Analysis

The second piece I decided to write a critique on was more of a contemporary ballet work. This piece was called “Water From the Same Source” and it was choreographed by Nicole Hennington. The music for the piece was also actually called “Water From the Same Source” and it was composed by Christian Erik Fredericton, Jason Bingham Noble, and Rachel Blair Grimes. The piece of music was instrumental and the performing artist was Rachel’s. The were four dancers in this piece, two men and two women. Nicole was not only the choreographer of this piece, but she was also a dancer in it. I found this really interesting because I feel like it would be difficult to be in the dance you are choreographing because you are never able to watch it and dance it at the same time to see what is working and what is not working.
The men both wore navy button up short sleeve shirts and black dress pants. All of the dancers wore nude ballet shoes. The piece began with one male dancer standing in the downstage left corner. There was a line of light from where the dancer stood alone all the way to the upstage right corner of the stage. The dancer that started on stage began dancing when the music started and then he stopped and stood still on stage. The other male dance came in from the wing to join him and did a pose connected to him. Then, the first girl joined the two males, also in a connected pose. Lastly, the second female walked in to join, but just stepped through the dancers who were posed, and then all the dancers broke away from the pose and then stream of light went away and the whole stage was lit and all four of them began to dance