{"id":737,"date":"2018-12-12T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/?p=737"},"modified":"2018-12-16T13:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T13:55:40","slug":"fall-2018-dance-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/2018\/12\/fall-2018-dance-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance majors wrap up semester with diverse performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

The stamp of heavy combat boots opened the Fall Dance Showcase last Friday as the Far Rock step group marched across the slick black floor of the Peggy Theater in Thomas Hunter Hall.<\/p>\n

With a semester\u2019s worth of practice and careful planning, each piece in the showcase was performed, choreographed and designed for light and sound by dance students. The choreographers included students Manuela Agudelo, Eumaya Bartee, Vienna Cohn, Sarah Days, Nam Hui Kim, Helen Menashe, Chelsea Polanco, Melody Rivera, with a closing performance, Drumline, choreographed by guest choreographer Larry Keigwin.<\/p>\n

Broken up into two programs of eight pieces, the fall showcase cycled throughout the weekend and included interpretive dance, hip-hop and other blended forms of dance styles. Many of the dances used a mixture of songs, ranging The Beatles\u2019 and \u201cTwist and Shout\u201d <\/em>to Kanye West\u2019s and Jay Z\u2019s \u201cOtis<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Brianna Gonzales, 21, a junior, attended the showcase last fall as well and was excited to return to the Peggy Theater in Thomas Hunter Hall. \u201cIt was all so beautifully done by the students, it was such an amazing artistic effort, so I was excited to see themes that they have this year and the dances that the students made themselves,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Nicole Alvarez, 23, a senior, performed in the dance \u201cBeneath an Echo\u201d<\/em> and choreographed the performance \u201cBehind Our Back,\u201d <\/em>which had the dancers constantly weaving together and apart from one another in pale blue maxi dresses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI love dancing but what truly makes me happy is choreographing, and seeing my piece was the most exciting thing of the whole show,\u201d said Alvarez. \u201cJust being able to see my art come to life on stage — it\u2019s what keeps me going in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dance students who work the showcase wear multiple hats, going back and forth between performing pieces, changing for the next act, or running off stage left to the work the light control panel, creating artistic light designs for their classmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s chaotic, but everyone around is super supportive,\u201d said Ariana Noble, 21, a dancer who performed in \u201cCuando el Rio Suena\u201d <\/em>and \u201cBeneath an Echo<\/em>.\u201d At multiple times throughout her last piece, \u201cCuando el Rio Suena,\u201d <\/em>which translates to \u201cwhen the river sounds,\u201d Noble was the only one to use her voice to accent the piece; she sang a single note, rhythmically, while dancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the end is always the best,\u201d Noble said, \u201cbecause you come out of a performance with such an adrenaline high.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fall dance showcase cycled throughout the weekend and included interpretive dance, hip-hop and other blended forms of dance styles. Dance students wear multiple hats, going back and forth between performing pieces, changing for the next act, or running off stage left to the work the lights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[55,56,51,52,53,54,40],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-dance","tag-dance-department","tag-peggy-theatre","tag-perfomance","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brie.hunter.cuny.edu\/hunterathenian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}