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
Kyle stands in the middle of the stage and does another show-and-tell type speech on the play. Whilst he is standing in the middle of the stage, he incorporates direct address and space as he stands by himself in front of the audience. There are no sounds, the light is only on Kyle and this mood is made so that the audience concentrates on his story as it is an important information on the play. Like the previous speech, he begins with a very lovely story about how he founds and loves a cat. However, when he starts to talk about when his father found the cat, the story takes a dark turn and tension builds. Kyle’s voice becomes faster, louder and shaky to show the emotions which he feels. The actress which plays Jessie morphs into the cat at this point by using the conventions of multiple roles to assist in telling the story. This story is very important in the play as the plastic bag which his father used to kill his cat becomes a major symbol throughout the play in various types of scenes. Whenever he feels threatened, upset or sad, he pulls out the bag and put it around his head and neck. Thus, this shows the audience his emotions and let them link the symbolism with the scene without having to physically talk. This shows that Kyle’s life is affected by his violent father and
At 3:00 PM on Sunday April 13th, 2014, I attended the performance “Shared Graduate Dance Concert at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center-Dance Theatre. Walking into the theatre I had anticipated experiencing an upright performance. This sensation came as I visited the website for the Shared Graduate Concert and saw a breath taking photo that entailed a person behind a curtain holding their hand up and a fuzzy person in front of a curtain. Also, I knew I was in for a good ride after I saw Meghan Bowden in the pamphlet.
The day of the audition quickly came. All the dancers were in the studio warming up, listening to their music, and stretching. Anna Beth was a nervous wreck, sweating buckets just from the palms of her hands. When Ms. Tiffany walked in, the dancers quickly stood up to greet her, and waited for her instructions. Ms.
The lights went out and white smoke filled the air. The huge moving screen lit up with Beyoncé’s face coming on and off the big white screen. Then the white screen started to rotate revealing Beyoncé and her background dancers with wide brim hats going up and down. She starts singing “formation” and throughout the crowd you hear screams of
As I sat enveloped in her story of overcoming conclusions, she taught my heart to embrace each quirky part of myself. I identified with Elle Woods’ need to prove herself. This idea of accepting individuality provided me with the courage to audition for my first show, the Arvada Center’s production of Footloose. Since that first nerve-racking, nail-biting experience, I have come to find myself through each move I dance onstage. Getting my first big role, the Dragon in a production of Shrek, I poured my heart out, knowing the people ready to judge and mock were watching. After the show, the peers who judged my intelligence approached me, saying things like, “I never knew you could sing like that.” Through performing I found myself again. I shifted back to the girl I was, the girl who cared about her morals. I want to perform, hoping to provide audience members with the ability to connect with characters who can offer them a point of realization, as Elle Woods did for me.
The king and queen have thrown a huge party for their daughter’s birthday and everyone is happy and celebrating. While Aurora is dancing with princes from other countries, a woman shows up with a gift for Aurora. Aurora happily accepts the gift and begins to dances with it. Not knowing that there is a needle hidden inside, she accidentally pricks her finger. The woman who gave the gift then changes into Carabosse’s robe revealing who she really was. Everything in the palace suddenly changes and the stage starts to get dark and covered in vines while all the dancers on stage begin to falls
Viveca being invited to the show seems to coincide with her light to freedom as Blacks. This can best describe as a dream comes true. She feels excited to see the light of her dream. It develops a sense of “winding up things” through her musical-comedy itinerants. The play ends with a reconciliation mode where Kirsten choose to look back not in a fury but with an enjoyment and compassionate of her wrongdoers. Viveca’s courage of unveiling her identity finally brings hope and freedom to the blacks as they are accepted and respected as part of the white
It was now or never Keylen her music started playing and she watched Letitia dance and she started to follow her and she looked a little awkward doing it. And she slowly started to remember and she started to flow with her.Then the feeling get left her and she was performing and she kept it going with it. The she was smiling she was having fun.The was bringing back old memories.She started to have flash back when she was dancing when she was small.She closed her eyes feeling free.
My heart is in my throat as I walk onstage. The curtain opens, and the dance number starts. I see my friend Maggie come out with the rest of the graceful dancers. She looks at ease, and I start to sweat. I remember the dance moves that Sophie taught us. Up, step, back, tease and turn. As I move my way up to the front of the circle, I try to remember the lines that I have to
He explains his circumstance as “more than giving up on music”, alluding to depressive thoughts of how pathetic his life was and thoughts of death. He explains how in just two days’ time, she turned his life around, and he doesn’t know how to thank her. The scene is set in an Irish pub, with Guy, Girl, Andrej, Reza, and Svec celebrating their success. I see the stage as dimly lit, with a spotlight on the emcee and some blue light in the background, indicating darkness. The stage has bar stools filled with people at the bar stage right, with a platform center stage.
Traveling is one of my family’s favorite things to do. The family has visited numerous places throughout the United States, however, none are as memorable as Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, there are many places to go and sights to see such as: Cola-cola factory, Cabbage Patch Kids Factory, Under Ground Mall, the Zoo, Atlanta Braves Stadium, Six Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain Park, and the Atlanta Aquarium, are all in or near the city of Atlanta. The three that we visit on every trip to Atlanta are Six Flags, Stone Mountain, and the Atlanta Aquarium.
In the middle of the stage a woman named Charlie sang the lyrics “dreams keep me alive” while playing her guitar. I’m amazed by how she can sing the high and low vocals perfectly. The background music contains the drums and guitar playing blends perfectly with her singing. She asked Amanda, her mom’s friend, to give her a chance to demonstrate that she has a potential to become a songwriter. When she sang her song, it was strong and beautiful to hear. I was shocked because she could really become a singer in real life, not just in the play performance. Her voice is captivating and it makes me feel alive like going to a concert for the first
The guy from the previous scene proceeds to bring out the girl in white, but she appears to be dead this time. I get the impression that she is dead since her body is hanging loosely and the guy is carrying her to the metal frame bed. Shortly after laying her down, the other dancers come out and they dance in a very sensual way. Ultimately, the final piece of the performance was Waking Life. For this piece, the whole cast came out to perform. This piece had a festive vibe to it and the performers looked like they were having fun. The girl from before that appeared dead was also brought out where she started dancing with a new guy she met. This finale appeared as if the performance was a dream and the girl from the beginning was just dreaming. The show ends with all of the performers coming out and bowing to the
This was it. I stepped onto the beautiful outdoor amphitheater stage. Everything seemed to swirl around me in different shades of green, and the audience appeared to be just blobs of color that my eyes could not make out into specific shapes. I was not thinking about what I was presently doing, but rather fretting over the choreography ahead, worrying about the unknown situations that might arise, and the outcome of the dance piece. Would people like my dancing? Would my teachers be proud? Would I be asked to join the company? All these thoughts racing around in my head made me feel like the world was
The finale is made to be a sort of hell for the audience making them ask “Did they go through all that just to be anonymous?” As they watch each person's history essentially self destruct as the dancers high-kick in chorus line uniformity. Not only does the staging of the finale highlight the situation, the song “One” itself is a dejected commentary on the lives of the dancers. The lyrics allude to a woman that is “sublimely” special, a star, if you will, that “woman” is a nonentity, never appearing once during the whole number. Instead, the audience's attention is kept on the very people meant to stay in the background: the chorus, now dressed to the nines in their shimmering false attires. In a strange moment of doubleness the audience sees the chorus in some ways, as the stars of the show, at the same time, the dancers have been dismissed to the background, made transparent, and destined to sing about a star that is more famous than they are, adding to the irony and disheartening fact that “she” is missing in action. This finale is the American Dream theatricalized for the broadway