Storytelling through Dance

In the opening tap number, there wasn’t any single story. There were multiple stories all told through the taps. Tapping back and forth between two dancers created a sort of dialogue, and the story was told through those “conversations”. The motown number was a very dramatic re-imagining of Othello, and so the story was central to the choreography, and was brilliantly acted by the facial expressions and body’s of the dancers. The third number was very somber and fluid, but very open to interpretation, there was no set story. The Rite of Spring followed a very scary, but clear story that was told through costumes, choreography, and music.

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