It Happened So Fast: A Dance Response

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In the dance performance, It happened so fast, choreographer Mark Haines and dancers Markieth Wiley, Heather Stockton, Javier Baca and Sara Loder voice one couples unique story explaining the struggles of their relationship, before and after, what led up to the couples breaking point. The piece was performed on May 19, 2006 at the Landis Performing center at Riverside City College. The performance begins with Markeith Wiley and Heather Stockton at a middle level, stage left hugging one another. Javier Baca is center stage, at a low level, laying on the ground as if he was passed out. Sara Loder is stage left, at a medium level, and looks frightened staring at Javier. The music has not begun but Makeith and Heather begin to dance. They both have sustained energy and seem very happy with one another. Heather moves in a spiral pathway center stage while she has …show more content…

When Sara begins to dance, she dances as she’s frighten she quickly moves stage right in a straight path. The tempo moves faster than how it was with Markieth and Heather. Sara is very locomotor and changes a lot from low level to middle level. When Javier gets up to dance with Sara it looks like they are trying to do the same movements as Markieth and Heather but it does not work anymore. Sara seems frighten as she seems like she’s running away from Javier.When Javier and Sara are center center, with Javier behind her facing stage left with his left hand on her back and Sara standing in front of him with her hands up,Sara did a motion with her arms that looked like a rollercoaster,describing the ups and downs in there relationship.Sara then falls to the floor into a pushup position faced stage left with Javier standing behind her and he grabs her shoulder with his left hand and pulls her back toward stage right as if she was trying to escape and he keeps reeling her

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