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Descriptive Essay: The Art Of Kathryn Mccormick

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As the lights in the theater dimmed, the chatter slowly died down. Shaping Sound was about to begin. Suddenly, the lights on stage popped on and dancers poured from the wings walking like pedestrians. Walking in all directions, the dancers created an appealing image. The walking soon led to an electrifying, yet quirky contemporary number. Nearing the end of the number, the star of the show, Kathryn McCormick, appears onstage. She comes onstage all disoriented and stumbles into the bed which has magically appeared on stage and falls asleep, the lights turning off with her sleep. A couple of seconds later, the lights reappear revealing the bed had moved and wall-like props have been brought in. Kathryn wakes up and it seems as if she is dreaming. The next couple of numbers are soft contemporary numbers with loads of lifts and subtle accents. It then turns into a darker jazz at a nightclub with 6 of the company members coming onstage to perform. It then turns into a fun, upbeat, old- school jazz when the rest of the company members join them …show more content…

Onstage we see all of the guys dancing to “Bohemian Rhapsody”. It is a pleasant surprise and seems a little downbeat until the chorus and recognizable part starts up. The guys all stand in a line with their own spotlight. The spotlight moves like the music and shows the dancers when needed. The movements the dancers are performing are very comical and get a huge reaction from the crowd. After this entertaining sequence, the performance takes a darker spin. It seems Kathryn has entered a nightmare where her worse fears come true. She is thrown around by the “monsters”, who are her fellow cast mates wearing masks, and screams at strategic places. After the sequence of dances, she wakes up, leaving her with a whole new perspective on life. She walks into a scene much like the first dance and casually bumps into a new man and starts a new beginning. *Curtain

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