Performance Day / Dance Recital (Q) - Spring 2021


 

Modern Dance II (Q) Spring 2021 Recital

 

Every semester, Modern Dance II is the host of a dance recital that brings the work created by the students during the semester to full fruition. This semester, students have choreographed solo and ensemble pieces which reflect their creative process. Their pieces reference the legacy of the forerunners of modern dance in Europe and North America.  The students' works, listed in the program below, are an expression of their own stories. Welcome to a space where dance art matters!

 

  

SOLO PIECES  



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Choreographer: Weijian Wang

Dancer: Weijian Wang

Music: Home by Edith Whiskers

  

My piece is about family. These include being encouraged when I encounter difficulties in life, sharing happiness when I am extremely excited, and the unique feeling of being in it. It's still a bit vague because I'm still thinking about how to express this feeling in the form of dance.

 

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Choreographer: Jiachen Chen

Dancer: Jiachen Chen

Music: Dumb & Broke by Khalid- Young

 

My piece is about a young people have no idea about his future. What I want to express is the change of his mind, how he could be cheered up and find his life goal.

 

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Choreographer: Yunqing Liu

Dancer: Yunqing Liu

Music: Manta by Lexie Liu

 

My piece's story is about Devilfish's exploration in the ocean. She firstly cannot find out what is her imagination’s world. But finally, she realized what she need and enjoy playing in the ocean. 

 

Finding What Is Lost

Choreographer: Jayci Eskalyo

Dancer: Jayci Eskalyo

Music: When I was Older by Billie Eilish


We need stories in dance for inspiration and to feel challenged. Stories are the engine that dance needs, even though, according to Crystal Pite, dance is an ineffective way to tell a story. My piece is about trying to get something back that was lost. This storyline will allow me to incorporate floor work, fluidity, and more of the elements that have been taught this semester.

 

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Choreographer: Zixiao Dong

Dancer: Zixiao Dong

Music: To Let a Good Thing Die by Bruno Major

My story is that sometimes I should give up the good things even thought I don't want to. Not every good stuff is helping me, give up somethings and establish new goals will assist my life being better.

 

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Choreographer: Simon Heaster

Dancer: Simon Heaster

Music: Ends of the Earth by Kenny Chesney

 

My dance is about relaxation and the peacefulness of life, along with the concept of fluidity and the ability to create unique, free-flowing movements through a calm and relaxed mindset. I am going to keep this theme throughout my entire dance, making sure it is smooth the entire time and movements are very peaceful and fluid. Connecting these various pieces together, as I have been practicing, will enhance the ability to create the expression of happiness and peacefulness. My music choice will help me in creating this overall theme.

 

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Choreographer: Chen Wang

Dancer: Chen Wang

Music: Postcard by Troye Sivan

My dance would be to follow the experience of being a student who is ready for graduation and bring all memories that happened to me to my next journey. It contains sadness, sorrow, happiness, positive and negative feelings. In the end, I will bring what I learned and what I have with me back to where I am from.

 

Bloom

Choreographer: Risa Kitajima

Dancer: Risa Kitajima

Music: Nocturne No.1 by Frederic Chopin


My story would be the mental changes who people get bully would have. It would be the wave from being confused, self-reference, love-and-hate conflict towards oneselves, but at some point we will stand up and start to love ourselves. Being bullied is not something we did wrong, love ourselves!

 

Purpose

Choreographer: Krishna Louis

Dancer: Krishna Louis

Music: Streets by Doja Cat


My piece is about a young girl who is trying to figure out her purpose in life, she goes through obstacles that make her think she cannot make it, so she is trying to find her way in hopes to have a better future.

 

She Let Go

Choreographer: Sydney Dymant

Dance: Sydney Dymant

Music: Bird by Billie Marten

 

My dance starts out with the dancer struggling to let go of events from the past. She tries to move on but thoughts about the past keep her stuck. Then slowly she is able to release those thoughts and emotions of the past and she emerges clearer and more refreshed. She now feels excited about her future and ready to embrace new things. She feels free.

 

Taking My Freedom

Choreographer: Amanda Rojas

Dancer: Amanda Rojas

Music: Pienso en tu mirá' by Rosalía

 

The story tells of a relationship where the man is battling with his mind as he fears abandonment from his partner. This emotional strain brings him to obsess over his partner, to abuse her, and to take her freedom away. As she tries to break free, she fears the violence that can come from trying. In the end, she decides to get over her fear and escape; leaving the violence and abuse behind. Finally getting her freedom back.

 

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Choreographer: Hanlin Chen

Dancer: Hanlin Chen

Music: Big Fish & Begonia Theme Song OST

 

My story is about a man chasing his dream, but he got distracted by his own greed on the half way. The second part of story is how he gives up what he had and start finding himself who was a pure dream chaser.


Pay Attention to Me

Dancer: Yuxuan Qi

Choreographer: Yuxuan Qi

Music: Nunu Nana by Jessi

 

The purpose of my dance piece is to impress people. I want to make sure to show them my confidence, my beautiful movements, my personality, and the difference between me and others. 


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Choreographer: Yun Ma

Dancer: Yun Ma

Music: Same Drugs by Chance the Rapper

 My dance is about a boy who grew up in a poor neighborhood and struggled finding his meaning in life. As he got older, he finally found what he was looking for but everything had already changed.


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Letting Go 

Choreographers:

Eric Winn, Bella Freeberg, Isabella Lettieri, Cameron Cruz, Okera Hastings, Nikki Vlahos

Dancers:

Eric Winn, Bella Freeberg, Isabella Lettieri, Cameron Cruz, Okera Hastings, Nikki Vlahos

Music:


A group of friends get together on Miami Beach during the summertime to let all their inhibitions go after a long semester of school during pandemic. The friends reflect on times when social distancing was not necessary but as the dance progresses we see a rift growing between the friends both physically and with their interpersonal relations.

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