Dance Critique Of Dance

I am choosing to do my dance critique on the third dance, which is named “Ask and Tell”. This dance consisted of 2 male dancers along with two chairs as their props. They started dancing in the chair, using it as a platform to begin telling their story through dance. To begin, I can see that both the dancers displayed great posture, tall and erect when showing strength and hunched over when they are showing defeat. All the dance movements were in sync with one another; it was as if the two dancers were ultimately moving as one in harmony. A slow music complimented the dance to allow the audience to be fully focused on the dancing and the story behind it. At times in the dance, the music would pick up to accompany the change in the dancer’s

Also, balance was seen when one dancer would carry the other dancer when he has fallen without both falling. Moreover, the dancers used many gestures, such as hand movements like trying to lure in the audience in understanding and empathizing with their dance. These gestures were simple, but connected well with the audience. Rhythm in this dance was like a pattern, it would follow the mood of the dance to demonstrate motivation, optimism, distress and discouragement. Their rhythmic movements were so in sync that they were on beat with the low tempo music most of the time. To me, the dance piece was like seeing a contemporary piece that was trying to tell a very deep and personal story. It was a dance that displayed and showed a story that encompasses a great amount of emotion and passion. The audience was very responsive during the dance and certainly after, this was because the movements and gestures connected with them. This particular dance had touched the audience on not just a superficial level, but more on an internal level. The audience could be seen almost tearing up because the story that the dancers were showing was full of substance and

The two lights that shined on the dancers were made so the audience can focus on the dancers and nothing else. As the dancers continued to dance, I remember in class when we talked about a certain dance when the dancers would copy each other movements, and would dance exactly in unison with never missing a beat. To me, the dance showed and displayed a story of two male friends who helped and encourage each other during their training time for the war. Both these guys were friends that would use each other as a sense of motivation to get through the hard times. When one friend would fall during training, the other friend would help pick up back up and encourage him to continue. In the end, one friend was ultimately pushed to his limit and unfortunately passed away, but this friend was still there to pick him up and carry him to finish. The dancers put on such an amazing and touching performance that almost got the audience to their feet. The emotion that the dancers were putting forth was definitely felt and perceived well from the