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By: Ashton Newton\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n
Western students have been hard at work rehearsing for the 2017 Spring Dance Concert. Directed by Darryl Thomas, the Spring Dance Concert features 12 different dances from student and faculty choreographers, including a performance from Rainbow Dance Theatre and a guest piece from Tim Cowart.<\/p>\n
Students have been rehearsing since January for multiple days a week for the \"\"performances, which will be May 11-13 at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
One student, Brooke Cross, sophomore elementary education major, recounted her experience preparing for Spring Dance Concert as a positive one.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was fun right away. I really enjoy learning choreography. Technique is good in dance classes, but I miss the whole learning a dance, performing it, having the lighting and costuming – everything like that is just really fun,\u201d said Cross.<\/p>\n
Cross is performing in two pieces, which has kept her swamped since the first auditions in January.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m performing in a faculty piece done by Sharon Oberst. It\u2019s a tap number and it\u2019s done to three box songs. One is a minuet, one is a rondo and one is badinerie. We wear tuxedos and it\u2019s very fun,\u201d said Cross. \u201cThe other one, I\u2019m in a student piece by Jordan Daniels called \u2018The Place That Never Changes,\u2019 she\u2019s basing it off of a story about her grandparents house, a special place for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 12 dances each incorporate the different styles of the choreographers, and each dancer brings their own unique style to it as well. Coming from a dance team background, student dancer Jesse Johnson, first-year undeclared, expressed that working on these dances has been a much different experience than anything she\u2019s done before.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not dance team, so staging and where your formation is doesn\u2019t really matter necessarily,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cIt\u2019s not about the big overall movement, it\u2019s about the little cool things that you get to do because you only have around eight people. Creatively you can do so much.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Spring Dance Concert auditions were open for any Western student, so the performance is filled with both dance students and students who just love to dance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s cool to see everyone from different dance backgrounds come and do a piece that a student choreographed. It\u2019s really cool to be in something like this,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n
Johnson is also performing in two dances, both of them student-choreographed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of them is Caitlin Rose\u2019s piece \u2018Primordial Awakening.\u2019 It\u2019s kind of a druid dance. There are two main people and we fight until the end, until we come together. It\u2019s powerful and really cool. It\u2019s more ballet heavy, which isn\u2019t my forte, but I really like the music, it\u2019s very tribal,\u201d recounted Johnson. \u201cI\u2019m also really excited for Brittany Hortert\u2019s piece \u2018Incognito.\u2019 We\u2019re pretty much running away from something the whole time. We wear sunglasses and a jacket, we look like spies the whole time. We get to play around with character and facial expressions, it\u2019s just a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson also expressed her excitement for seeing some of the other dances in the Spring Dance Concert that will be performed alongside hers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one piece that I\u2019m particularly interested in watching called \u2018Nasty Woman.\u2019 It\u2019s a solo piece and the way [Hayleyann Evers] has recorded some choreography ahead of time and will put that out as she dances to music is going to be one that I really want to see. It pertains to what\u2019s going on right now and that\u2019s really cool,\u201d expressed Johnson.<\/p>\n
Both Cross and Johnson are excited to put their hard work to the stage and to see the other dances that their fellow dancers have rehearsed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to perform for the other students and the members of my family that are coming. I\u2019m really proud of the dances that I\u2019m in and I think they\u2019re great,\u201d said Cross.<\/p>\n
The Spring Dance Concert will run from May 11-13, beginning at 7:30 p.m. each night in Rice Auditorium. Tickets are available now for $12, or $7 with a Western I.D.<\/p>\n
Contact the author at journalentertainment@wou.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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