Essays on Dance Performance Review

The 1927 Broadway debut of Show Boat proved the musical to be nothing shy of revelatory and earned it a firm place in the history of the development of American musical theater. Show Boat is widely considered to be the paradigm of a wholly new...

Rocky Horror follows the story of a couple that finds themselves lost in the house of a Transylvanian scientist known as Doctor Frank-N-Furter. In this house, they encounter many outlandish characters and witness the creation of a man named Rocky. The Rocky Horror Show was...

This essay will study and devise an exploration of the piece, Swan Lake by Matthew Bourne. Exploring the notions of gender identity and how society has constructed specific behaviour norms for that particular sex. Discussing the views of Susan L. Foster (2009) and how she...

I Went to CalArts Winter Dance 2019 and watched the dance festival take place, however; the one that stuck out to me was The Nutcracker choreographed by Salwa Rizkalla. She annual host The Nutcracker in Irvine and promoted it while at the show. The Nutcracker...

Ballet Concert Review The School of the Arts at the College of Charleston hosted their annual student dance performance, named “Chapel Moves”, and was held in the black box, Chapel Theatre. This production was entirely student created, meaning that all choreography and dancing was created...

In 1965 Norman Martin, a leading social and competitive ballroom dance champion put together a group of dancers known as the United States Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association, Inc. or USABDA. Their purpose was to petition the Olympic committee to include ballroom dancing in the Olympic...