Dance Day Essay

Last 29th of April 2015, International Dance Day 2015, Contemporary Dance Network Manila was celebrated at the Dance Forum, Quezon City. It composes a collaboration of works of different companies in Manila, Philippines namely the famous ones in contemporary dance like Airdance, UP Dance Co., Daloy Dance Company and many more that consist of good dancers and choreographers.

The first piece was entitled Doble Cara performed by Airdance. It was a duet that wears only under wears and they have their face painted in white. They used a projection of a video of them that opposite the movements they do. They have a step that the boy jogs very fast but just stays in place, they opened their mouth very wide, the movements were like they wanted to

It was entitled “8 hours- Yolanda”. The title and the choreography don’t look like it has a connection with each other. The message of their concept was not clearly understood by the audience, even though the title was so understandable. The piece was more likely an interpretative dance. For me, compared to the other pieces, this one has just a common one or lets just say it didn’t went outside the box. The concept and the music were very ordinary. They even used a minus one pop music- a thousand years. The steps were just more on pure unison and canon; even the dancers were not cleaned very well. The funny part was the ending; the dancers posed and made tableau that shows levels and how they reached out to

The choreography was performed by The UP Dance Co. I’m not being biased but this one has a good concept and choreography. The concept was seen that the girls were disabled and the guys were trying to help them but they’re not ready yet (it was shown that one arm only was used by the guys) but it was seen that in later time or when time comes the boys are ready to help the disabled girls. Listening to Sir Steve’s comment; He preferred 2/3 for the title because he thoughts that the concept is not that ambiguous to the audience so he preferred that the title should be contrasted so it will become vague