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A Review Of The Momix Botanica Show
Momix Botanica Review Momix Botanica, which was sponsored by Eileen Leibowitz &Benson and Christine Lichtig, was performed at the Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 7:30 pm. The show was based around ballet dancing to Indian music. Many of the songs that the show used were religious or traditional Indian songs. The dances that the performers presented were very artistic and they all had a very different feel to them. The show, Momix Botanica, was organized, practiced, and presented extremely well. I feel as if one of the biggest things that made the show successful was the costumes that the performers were wearing. The way people dress says a lot about someone, just like that, in the show the costumes that the dancers were wearing, said a lot about the dances they were performing. For example, the part in the show where one of the girls was wearing a tan colored body suit, the costume set the dance and the mood just right. The song playing in the background was a slow beat calming tune and costume that the performer was wearing was tan colored and not too bright or flashy, making the scene absolutely perfect. This scene really contributed to the show in being successful. Another feature of the show that really made the show splendid, was the expressions on the dancers faces. Every performer knows that one of the biggest things that can either make or break a show is the expressions they make while performing on stage. The expressions on the performers’ faces while dancing really added to the mood of the scene. In the part of the show where the dancers were pretending to be horses, with the fast beat music, all the dancers had excited looks on their faces, which added to the scene rather than if they just had a straight face or perhaps a sad face. Like I said earlier, the expressions on the performers’ faces make an extremely big difference and these performers had great expressions which put the show over the top. Lastly,

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