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The part of the dance I will be talking about in this paper is the sand portion of the dance. This part of the dance was my favorite part of the dance. I can not describe it well. The best way I can describe it is that I was just drawn to this dance. I felt the dance as it progressed and I just felt more and more connected with it. With all the other dances I had to think a little more to find meaning behind them , while in this dance I did not have to think to hard about it. The meaning for this portion of the dance just kind of came to me really easily while I was watching. It felt like I knew exactly what the choreographer wanted me to get. (Now whether or not I actually got what the choreographer wanted me to get is a completely different story.) In the beginning of the dance the stage was completely empty. Then slowly one by one the dancers made their way onto the stage. When the dancers first got onto the …show more content…

The movement to me looked as if the dancers were accepting a part of their greeting the floor and the air. This reads as if they were accepting their past as well as their future. Then they make the decision to kill themselves, which is the movement that looks like they are hanging themselves. After they make that decision they have to got through all the planning and coming to terms with what will happen to those who love and care about them. In making the decision to kill themselves they realize that the lives of those around them will be affected greatly. Thus they begin to kick and push the sand in sporadic ways to symbolize the chaos in their lives. They do this until they come to terms with the decision they have made. Once they come to terms with the decision they find that they have pushed themselves out of the circle of sand that they have throw about and this is when they settle into what will be and they can begin to find

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The stage lighting is subtle and just enough to spotlight the dancer who stands tall with her arms extended to the sky and hands clasped together. A long, white sheet-like scarf drapes the dancer’s hands. As the music begins the solo dancer starts to sway then slowly she starts walking back and forth across the stage only ever taking one or two steps in each direction. With each step crossing one foot in front of the other. Her arms are still outstretched but now they are open; the audience can see the dancer’s face.

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After facing their attention up to the sky, as though praising the lord, they take a few steps forward and the next segment begins. The piece is made up of seven dancers, three females and four males, who are near the water one knee kneeling on the sand. Their movements are more fast paced moving from low level to middle level and crouching down to low level when the lyrics say “down in the river to pray”. The choreography and lyrics from the song move in unison, when the lyrics mention sisters the three females appear and when it mentions brothers the focus shifts to the four male dancers. The environment changes a couple of times and thus the viewer is transported from being inside the water out to the shore and then a field of grains where all the dancers perform together.

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The tempo was upbeat and lively. The melody was smooth. It started in forte and then moved to piano before a cadence. It came back sforzando that would then crescendo. It then diminuendo to piano before it would crescendo again.

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The wording here is interesting due to the fact that it is only used during extreme circumstances. Roethke does the same sense of imagery with the word “beat” (13). Within the poem Roethke uses dancing to represent an abusive fight between father and his child. The reader can get this from the struggle of the boy to dance with his father and to keep up “But I hung on like death/such waltzing was not easy” (3-4).

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“Artworks have ‘aboutness’ and demand interpretation” (Barrett 71). This statement creates a foundation for writing, specifically about dance, as each dance piece is always about something, no matter how simple it appears to be. As I began to write about dance I knew not only to provide a description of the piece, but utilize the description as evidence as I develop a possible meaning. Additionally he explains, “There can be different, competing, and contradictory interpretations of the same artwork” (Barrett 73). When I would begin to develop an explanation from the description I provided, I had to remind myself that my interpretation was only one view of the dance and I should not try to provide one comprehensive interpretation for the

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