For my final project, I have chosen to perform a dance to the song “Undone” by Haley Reinhart. Because the song tells the dark story of things that one could take back or change in life, I entitled my dance Dark Mistakes. The location I chose to perform this dance was in dormitory’s lounge. My costume consisted of a basic black dress in order to keep the theme and mood constant.
This project was different from the past movement experiences since I had to construct dance movements without professional assistance. Since I wanted to perform a song and a style of dance out of my element, this assignment seemed impossible to create. To gain inspiration, I diligently listened to the song ten times. On the ten time, I believed I had an epiphany to the direction I wanted this project’s choreography. Luckily, I have performed in various dance recitals, so most of the dances were fresh on my mind. Therefore, I picked out small parts of the previous dances and blended them with the novel movements. After the choreography was completed, I felt a great sense of accomplishment, yet a sense of fear that dance would not appear as phenomenal as I had envisioned.
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My dance includes a combination of ballet and modern dance movements while executing many floor movements. At the beginning of the dance, I transition myself from a standing position to a hunched position on the floor. Most of the shapes I make with my body are quite elongated at different levels. While traveling in different directions with my dance, I decided to assemble most of the movements to be fast-paced, resembling that one wishes to speed up time in life to avoid her past. For instance, some moments in my dance are not face-paced, yet they are slow and steady, so that I may take time to reflect my