Angelina is a 5th year senior and Alison is a junior. Both are Dance majors, Alison also has a Arts Management major and a Peace Studies minor, and Angelina has a Communicative Disorders major with a Psychology minor. They choreographed a contemporary tap duet that used spoken word and body percussion. According to Alison, the collaboration of ideas has been exciting and constantly changing. We are very similar in some ways, but also very different in others, so it’s a fun mix of rhythms and music choices that we are playing with.
The idea for their piece? Life. Everyone is an individual and has a different path, but in the end, we’re all related in some way and could get along if only we took the time to understand one another and even though there are so many people on this planet, we are all unique.
Emma Fitzsimmons
Emma is a senior with majors in Dance and International Studies and a minor in Anthropology. She is working on a modern piece about climate change and its relationship to humans. Here's a bit about her process:
I began by giving prompts to my cast to improvise off of. I conducted rehearsals in this way for some time and then began to use the movement that was generated to further my original concept about climate change. The major idea that was conceived from improvisation was blindness and how that can be a metaphor of the incapacity to observe surroundings.
I am now in
the phase of composing the dance, which has been enriched by the time spent on
improvisation. I believe it is going well, but time is of essence…especially in
Afterimages!
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