Alice In Wonderland Dance Evaluation

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The dance performance that I chose to attend was Alice In Wonderland, which was performed at the Lincoln Center in Fort Collins, Colorado by an outside presenter called the Canyon Concert Ballet. As noted in the companies name, the style of dance was contemporary ballet and after I did some research on the company’s website I could not find the choreographer of this play, but the list of the dancers is on their website at: http://ccballet.org/company/dancers/. The particular show that I saw was narrated from the perspective of Alice’s older sister by Jessica V. Freestone, who is the Former Artistic Director of Canyon Concert Ballet, and daughter of the Open Stage founders. This presentation of Alice In Wonderland took place on April 22nd, and …show more content…

When it came down to the more important and tone setting parts of the story, for example, Alice questioning a marvelous blue caterpillar sitting a top a large and colorful mushroom on her whereabouts and what she should do to get home or her meeting the provocative and eerie Cheshire Cat, the choreographer used one on one partner dances, which utilized romantic dances like the polka and waltz to emphasize the importance of the …show more content…

The choreographer purposefully threw many types of moves performed by many dancers at the audience in order to make a statement of confusion and otherworldliness for this performance. The dancers played to the choreography very well which resulted in a clear portrayal of what the vision for this play was, and it was also made more clear by how recognizable and popular the story of Alice In Wonderland is. The world of Wonderland was recreated beautifully in this performance by all of the intricacies of the dances and set pieces, which provided a very accurate adaptation and made it easy to keep up with what was going on. The music used to accompany this performance was classic ballet style music featuring woodwinds and stung instruments. The music featured higher tempos at the peaks of the story and lower for when things were more slow and the plot was at a developing point. The music was crucial in establishing the mood of each scene and the environment of the overall performance. The dancers performed simultaneously to the accompaniment with

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