Dance Performance Review

erformance. This performance was held at the Victoria J. Mastrobruno Theater. The performers in the show were all BFA dance majors at Mason Gross School of the Arts and the choreographers included faculty and guest choreographers. The dancers performed unique pieces that captivated the audience and truly illustrated the array of talent. Each piece used a plethora of ideas and created artistic environments to showcase an outcome, to the semester long projects. In addition to the choreographers and dancers creating the overall product, the lighting played a huge role. The lighting in this show help to sculpt the dancers and create designs to produce a bigger picture.
The first piece was “A solo in nine parts”, which was choreographed by Jessica Lang. This piece had eight dancers. The female dancers were wearing long blue dresses, while the men wore blue tops and grey pants. This piece was a ballet based and incorporated a lot of traveling across the space. There were also many spatial
This piece had six dancers, who were all female. The costumes in this piece were blue and brown. The overall feeling for his piece was mysterious and dark. To further show this the lighting side light used warm colors, for example browns and yellows. The dancers also had a strong focus that was out and up and to show this, there was a lot of clear wash of light. This top light highlighted the dancers face. I also noticed the use of angles and directions of the lights. Some of the lights hit the dancers diagonally. This added length to the dancer’s bodies and allowed for the movement to be seen in its entirety. For this piece I enjoyed the balance between darker warm light and the brighter clear light. It created a specific environment for the piece that could not have been seen without the lights. I enjoyed being able to see how the light can change and support the changes in a