Wade in the Water

We just finished learning the wade in the water dance. I think it came out really well. I think it will look really professional with the costumes. I like all the body motions and how well they work with the music. I really enjoyed doing that dance

Alvin Ailey

On Saturday I went to see a dance performance at Ailey 2. It was really cool. I saw a lot of different types of dance elements. One that I noticed was cannon.The dancers ran on one at a time and froze in a position, then switched to new positions one by one in the order that they came on.

Hawaiian dance

We just learned a dance from Hawaii. I thought it was really different from other things we have been doing. One thing that was unique about it was how the entire dance is done kneeling on the ground. I think it is interesting that you can express so much with just your arms. It was really relaxing and fun to do the Hawaiian dance.

Revalations

In december, me and my family went to see an Alvin Ailey performance. One of the dances we saw was revelations. It was definitely my favorite piece that was preformed. The dancer's movements were really big and powerful. I also really liked how synchronized they all were. I hope we can do all these things in our wade in the water piece.

Winter Arts Festible

We just did our winter arts festible performance and I think it went really well. We were worried that there wouldn't be enough space on the stage for the dance to work well, but even though we had to make a few changes, the overall dance went fine. I was worried I would have stage fright but I felt really confident once I was preforming. I really enjoyed preforming in this dance and I hope everyone else did too. I can't wait to see the video!

Jazz

I am exited for the new jazz unit that is coming up. Last year we did jazz, but only for a little bit. A lot of the warm ups we have been doing incorporate jazz, such as the warm up with the plie, or the warm up with the chest isolation. Jazz music has a lot of improvisation, and I think jazz dance might be similar. For example, in the warm up with the plie, you can swing your leg different lengths.

A Case of You

https://vimeo.com/134656119

This is a video of a duet preformed by a man and women. I think it is really interesting how they either mimic each others  movements, or their movements fit with each other very well. It is really cool when they run at each other and catch each other. That seems really hard to do. This dance reminds me of our muscle dance. The part where the lady runs and jumps and the man catches her is like the part in our dance where each group does a different kind of jump. The part where the women pushes the man down is similar to when we lie on the floor and then raise back up on one arm.