The Way You Look At Me Dance Analysis

The Way You Look (at me) Tonight was a performance done by Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham. The performance brought up very important themes throughout the entire piece. The major theme I took from this performance is love. Love was talked about and there was movement to help correlate with it. The dancers would speak on a subject and it would shortly be followed by a movement. This performance was very thought provoking and heartwarming. There were many little pieces each of them preformed to show how much they both love and care about each other. At one point, Jess and Claire were doing contact improve with their eyes closed and their movement had a smooth quality to it, showing that they were very comfortable with each other. The pace too was quick and had a flowing quality to
She was balancing them and moving with them, supporting on and getting support from the other. Claire had a steady and smooth movement that illustrated to me that she has actual love for them. The way she could handle the crutches was astonishing to watch, how precise and consistent her movement was, is amazing. That piece showed that love comes in many forms that some of us will never understand, everyone understands love differently and from that movement we got to see a very unique perspective on it.
When Jess and Claire did their own take on a classical dance from Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, it made me feel very happy for them. It is heartwarming for me to watch people “slow” dance and look into each other’s eyes as intensely as both of them did. Also a quote that was brought up was the Ginger could do everything Fred did but “She just did it backwards and in high heels”. Early in the performance we saw Jess use crutches with Claire, and she was showing him and she would move around in them, and she happened to be able to go backwards with them where Jess said he had some difficulty with