Modern Dance II / Final. R

 MODERN DANCE RECITAL 

Fall 2021

Program 

 

 

SOLOS

 

1

Grow Up

Dancer: Guanzhao Chen

Choreographer: Guanzhao Chen

Music: Born Ready by Zayde Wølf

 

The story is about how to break through myself. First, I was doing in a small space, with different feeling of myself. I was frozen and nearly lose hope. However, I used my internal power to solve it. and I feel myself was sublimated. The song is very fixed the story 

 

2

To Love You More

Dancer: Madison Brandon

Choreographer: Madison Brandon

Music: "Then You Look at Me" by Celine Dion

My solo piece is titled "To Love You More". It's about learning to love yourself and those around you despite your difference and challenges you may face in a relationship. it's a piece about hope, tolerance, and love conquering all. 

 

3

Do whatever I Want

Dancer: Yuze Zheng

Choreographer: Yuze Zheng

Music: Keep You Head Up Princess

 The title is Do whatever I want. The dance is spontaneous; we can move freely to the music.

  

4

STAY

Dancer: Jing Liu

Choreographer: Jing Liu

Music: STAY  by Justin Bieber

The story of STAY expresses the longing for beautiful love.

 

5

The Ocean Floor

Dancer: Xina Wei

Choreographer: Xina Wei

Music:

海底 (Seabead) by 一只榴莲 (A durian)

My piece is about the sea stars’ journey through the fog, through the fog will see the stars. 

 

 

6

This is Me

Dancer: Patrick Haskell

Choreographer: Patrick Haskell

Music: 

Million Dreams by Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, and Ziv Zaifman 

This dance reflects this part of my life and who I am as a person. I want to be able to look back at the movements one day and see the growth since then. In the piece, I explore a lot of different levels, directions, and concepts that I have learned thus far in Modern Dance. Similarly, I am exploring different passions of mine in my life and trying new things. The song embodies this concept as well and I step out of my comfort zone to discover my true self. 

 

 

7

Love

Dancer: Liming Wei

Choreographer: Liming Wei

Music:

 
The title of my story is love, the story is to express love, the beauty of life, happiness and joy in love.

 

8 

Flower of Hope 

Dancer: Yiyun Yang

Choreographer: Yiyun Yang

Music:

My solo is about a girl who meets many kinds of difficulties in life. She doesn't have the problem-solving skills of a superhero, and she often fails and loses herself. But she is still hopeful, trying to find herself, and does her best to make herself shine.

 

9

Untitled

Dancer: Delaney Greenwald

Choreographer: Delaney Greenwald

Music: 

My solo piece is a very happy, light piece. I am telling the story about how dance is a way to take a break from the stresses of life and in a way bring about the joy of my youth. While it still is a happy song I am still incorporating movements that demonstrate all the different levels and kinds of motions. 

 

10

“Dogbey”

 ( a play on words for goodbye)

Dancer: Dorel Last

Choreographer: Dorel Last

Music: “I Try”

Composer: Macy Gray

The story I would like to tell is about my dog Golda. I adopted her from the shelter and enjoyed her company for about 4 months. At the beginning of September one of the neighbors in my condo claimed that she bit him. Shortly after that, she was band from the building. Try to find a new place for her and saying goodbye was probably the hardest time in my life.  She brought so much happiness and love to my life that I couldn’t believe this would come to an end so shortly. 

 

11

Untitled

Dancer: Anna Wu

Choreographer: Anna Wu

Music:"Gypsy Lady" for Peter Del Rey.

The title is tough-minded love. people around you come and go,  you will meet a lot of person in your life, however, eventually, will find one you truly love, but may be can't have it forever, once you lost it, it become unforgettable love, the love makes you stronger enough.

 

 

12

Toxic Love

Dancer: Exther Monexe

Choreography: Esther Monexe

Music: Just friends (Tima Galaager )

Join me in movement as I portray the toxic relationship of a couple who are desperately in love with one another but don’t know how to express it. 

 

13

Love Has Died

Dancer: Lin Wang

Choreographer: Lin Wang

The story of my song is that love has died, so don't linger on the past any more. Although this process is painful, we should try our best to come out.

 

14

Reunion

Dancer: Sierra Maziur 

Choreographer: Sierra Maziur

Music: "Beautiful Goodbye" by Maroon 5

My solo story is that I am dancing about wishing to be reunited with my lover once more after having to say a rough goodbye for a while. 

 

15

Life Goes On

Dancer: Shuai Xiao

Choreographer: Shuai Xiao

Music: “Life Goes On” by BTS

 

In this piece, I'm trying to tell that life is not always good, but no matter what happens, life goes on. We have to be hopeful about our lives and surround ourselves with happiness. The story is about how to break through myself. First, I was doing in a small space, with different feeling of myself. I was frozen and nearly lost hope. However, I used my internal power to solve it. and I feel myself was sublimated. 

 

16

Moving Forward

Dancer: Sofia Franciosa

Choreographer: Sofia Franciosa

Music: "Easy On Me" by Adele

 

My piece is about a young woman that has been hurt. She is now learning how to focus on herself to heal from her past and focus on her future. She learns that she only needs herself and progressively finds things that make her genuinely happy. 

 

17

Untitled

Dancer: Zihui Xie 

Choreographer: Zihui Xie 

Music: “Red Light Green Light” by Squid Game

Synopsis:

 

18

Untitled

Dancer: Saidah Lopez

Choreographer: Saidah Lopez

Music: Love lockdown - Kanye west

Synopsis:

 

19

A little girl who loves to dance

Dancer: Jiayue Wang

Choreographer: Jiayue Wang

Music: Combination of Riverside by Agnes Obel and Lalisa by Blackpink

An unrestrained process about a little girl who loves dancing from being shy to being confident.

20

Sandglass

Dancer: Boxiang (Kevin) Zhang

The name of my piece is called the sandglass. This story is about a man who want to succeed too much so he ignored his family a lot, although he succeeded in the end, his family left him. One day in his dream he recalled the happy time he used to have with his family, he regretted he did not value that happy time 

21

 Embrace

Dancer: Melody Muniz 

Music: Who Got Me 

This piece for me was all about accepting and embracing my true self. I've always loved dancing and this year I've experimented so much more with creative flows. Learning about directions and levels as the basic building blocks of dance really enhanced my understanding of the art form. One dance can be rearranged into 20 different dances simply by changing one aspect. The calming, flowy song I chose mirrored my own sense of calm when I am dancing - I am able to enter into a flow state where it's just me and my body. For me, dancing is an act of self-love and being able to do it more often is such a gratifying experience.

22

Creating Through Turbulence

Dancer: Ashna Vaidyanath

Music: Let me down slowly - Alec Benjamin

This piece talks about the journey that I've been on since I graduated high school. I want this piece to encompass the themes of heartache, change, and learning to power through the struggles that you are facing. Dance has always helped me cope with the stressors that I face and I can't wait to continue to perform as a way to overcome and showcase my triumph over adversity.

23

"Stay With Me"

Dancer: Hanlin Wang

Choreographer: Hanlin Wang

Music: DO not go, My lover  by Sam Smith

I mainly wanted to express a boy in a rainstorm, not wanting his lover to leave. In the dance, I added a lot of slow movements. This mainly wanted to highlight the sadness of the main character. At the end, the main character's lover still left. He is very sad.

 24

Jayda

 

ENSEMBLES

 

I

Untitled

Dancers: Esther Monexe 

Choreographers: Esther Monexe, 

Music: Paramedic (Kendrick Lamar)

The ocean is one of the most essential parts of life. Making up about 70% of the earth and only 5 % of it being explored by man. There is a ton of life movement, intensity, and phenomena. Join us as we explore and melody into the unknown. 

 

II

Getaway

Dancers: 

Melody, Patrick, Ashna, Jayda, Hanli, Charleston, Niklas

Choreographers: 

Melody, Patrick, Ashna, Jayda, Hanli, Charleston, Niklas

Music: 

Each of us took dance for a reason, whether it be to escape the stress of school, to avoid the expectation of good grades, or to elude the standards that we place upon ourselves. We want our piece to showcase our usage of this class as an escape from our various stressors and to prove how healthy dance can be as a getaway from the hardships of everyday life. We are each grateful for movement and need this class for our own, personal reason. While the individuals in the group have different circumstances for taking the class, dance was able to bring us together and allows us to perform as one. 

 

III

 

Friends at The Office

Dancers: 

Sierra Maziur, Anna Wu, Dorel Last, Guanzhao Chen, Liming Wei 

Choreographers: 

Sierra Maziur, Anna Wu, Dorel Last, Guanzhao Chen, Liming Wei

Music: "The Office Theme Song" by The Scrantones

  

Our piece is about friendship regardless of the differences between the group members, such as where we come. The dance starts with us dancing individually. We all are doing the same movements, but we are not yet connected to each other. Then, we, begin dancing in a circle, forming a friendship bond with each other. We separate for a bit, yet we're all still connected. The dance ends with us in a circle once more. 

  

IV

 

The Relationship

 

Dancers: 

Sofia Franciosa, Shuai Xiao, Lin Wang, Boxiang Zhang, Madison Brandon

Choreographers: 

Sofia Franciosa, Shuai Xiao, Lin Wang, Boxiang Zhang, Madison Brandon 

Music: "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie

This piece is called "The Relationship". This story is about a failing relationship that is working to fix their problems They both understand that they have to believe in each other to make things work and they both genuinely care for one another. They reach out to each other throughout the piece to show their efforts.