Senior Dance Concert

The JMU Senior Dance Concert was produced and choreographed by the graduating seniors who majored in dance as part of their final thesis. The dance concert was held on February 11-13th at the Forbes Theater. The dance performances had mixtures of ballet, contemporary, modern, and hip-hop dance combined to create exciting and alluring dance pieces. The theme that the seniors chose for their final performances was “home”. The first dance began with the lights off and the stage dark. Then slowly the dancers walked out from behind the curtains and the lights came on. Beginning their dance, the dancers moved in fluid motions walking across the stage, performing graceful movements with their bodies. In one part of the dance, one of the dancers took another dancer and carried her on her back for several steps. This simple action seemed to demonstrate a comforting act, as though the dancer was carrying the other dancer to a place of well-being. This dance was beautiful to watch, and had several powerful moments. In another dance, the dancers had on modern and hip-hop clothes,
There were no other sounds other than the girl singing while playing her Ukulele. Colorful lights beamed down on the dancers giving off different wavelengths of light from soft pink to yellow to blue hues that streamed around the dancers. The costumes that the female dancers wore were mainly pale or neutral colors that did not flash or distract the audience from the movements they were performing. Truly, I believe that this added a beautiful effect to the overall dance. This dance was a cumulation of the end and it seemed to state the dancers’ farewells and goodbyes to the place that they had called home for the last four years of their lives. It was a powerful performance full of emotion and