My taste is peculiar when it comes to dance. Although I am a dancer myself. I am veiy picky with its styles. I was prepared for “Fall for Dance” to be weird, to express strange movements that occasionally make me cringe and dislike the dance, but that wasn’t the case. Although I was originally supposed to concentrate on the last dance, I couldn’t keep my eyes off the deliberate details in the first three dances, because they mesmerized me.
The four dances were all so different, but each one had my head spinning in a different way. During the first dance I couldn’t help but notice the costumes right away. Women were wearing long sleeve light shirts and floor length skirts, each one with a different design that matched a shirt of different male dancers. They instantaneously drew my attention, and at times, I caught myself analyzing the costumes and looking at their patterns rather than the actual dance.
I didn’t know what to expect from this production, and I had nothing to compare it to yet. It was telling a story, men and women were paired and re-paired throughout the choreography. Another thing that stood out about the dance was the formations that the dancers were making. I would describe the dance as grand, because a big picture was formed using small individual movements of each performer. I saw circles, diagonals, and crosses. That made the dance very interesting. However, after I experienced the rest of the show, I categorized the first dance as the weakest one.
I felt like the choreography wasn’t strong enough, and the choreographer was trying to mask that with the costumes and the big formations. The second dance was my favorite. I still picture it in my head and can feel energy arising from within my chest the same way it did during the performance.
It was extremely creative, deep, energetic, spontaneous, and well formatted. The decorations and illusions were simple, yet effective The dancers, mostly male, were plainly clothed in what looked like yoga pants, which depicted their body structures extremely well. The dance started off with a man carrying a large circular orange object on his back. He struggled to get up, as the heavy object kept pushing him down. However, the man kept trying and trying, until he finally arose to his feet and was standing tall. The next part was the same man dancing with five men similar to him. They were all repeating the combination performed by the first man while he was getting up from the weight, which was extremely powerful. It depicts the message that everyone has a struggle, a weight on their shoulders; however, everyone has the ability to arise from it, The dance kept on growing and getting more and more dynamic.
The music picked up a faster beat and the energy was inevitable. Another part that I loved was when two men, similarly shaped, were dancing to the fast beat. I felt like getting up and dancing myself! The third dance was very unusual in my eyes. Like the previous two, it was telling a story. A man and a woman performed a tango, engulfed In strong emotions that looked like love, hatred, annoyance and a sort of dependence from both parties. There was a band playing live in the background that the two also interacted with. I noticed that there was a constant conflict between the dancers. It started off with a woman dressed in a long white men’s dress shirt and stockings and the man dressed casually. He called her to dance, but she was taking her time to smoke, drink, and tease him with a little dance. As the storyline progressed, the costumes changed from casual to fancy.
For a while the man left the stage and the woman was topless, moving with her back to the audience, until the man came back and bought a fancy glittery cover up for her, The man came out in a black fedora, dress pants, and a sparkly vest. That was when I felt the dependence of the woman on the man, because without him she was exposed and vulnerable. Overall, I enjoyed the dance, but I found the storyline a little confusing. The fourth and final dance was phenomenal; it was my second favorite. What stood out was the simplicity of the overall performance It was also the only dance out of the four that used music with some lyrics in it. The background was light nude colors, all the dancers (male and female) were dressed in white clothing, and there was nothing extra.
It seemed as though the choreography was so strong and complex that there was no need for anything more. The technique was just perfect; there was continuity, sharpness, synchronization and sexiness in every move. It was very clear and challenging, but all the dancers performed it with great ease. Some parts had dancers looking like atoms, bouncing back and forth in random motions in organized chaos. There was constant repetition of certain combinations in a constant cycle; the proportion of people on stage was constantly kept up: for every one person that left, one new person came on stage. There was endless energy and motion. The numerous dances going on all at once painted one grandiose coordinated and detailed portrait.
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