Write a review on a live dance concert you have previously watched.
Select THREE dance pieces from the concert you attended, to discuss. If the concert was one long dance piece, select three elements of the production to discuss, or three sections that particularly stood out for you.
Identify them by Title and give a brief description of each dance piece. DO NOT spend the whole time giving me the plot of each piece.
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each piece. Support your statements and opinions by explicitly describing specific dance phrases or details that you saw. You may choose to talk about them in regards to: use of space, dynamics/energy, structure/compositional tools, movement vocabulary, technique, production elements (costumes, lighting), theme, or any other performance element that stood out about this piece.
When writing about each dance, pick 2-3 moments that really stood out in your memory. Usually they will be pivotal moments in each dance that created the overall effect of the dance to you as a viewer. Then answer the following questions to describe these moments, in order to get across how these dance movements affected your opinion of the dance.
What did you see? Just describe the movement or movement phrase as you would to a friend who had not seen the dance, without judging or assessing what you saw. For example, The dancers spun around the stage with a frenetic energy stopping only once their bodies crashed to the ground and slid to a stop.
What effect did this movement have? Talk about the physical/emotional/or mental effect this dance movement or phrase created on the stage or screen in the dance, still without judging the dance, merely interpreting the movement you saw. Example: This movement created the image of a group of people in a chaotic state of urgency, stopped only by their sheer exhaustion and inability to continue on with them movement.)
How did you interpret this dance or dance phrase?
