Classics to Contemporary (Dance)

The dance performance was hosted from November 18-19, 2010 and was located in the Koger Center for the Arts. It was directed by Susan Anderson and Thaddeus Davis. The Classics to Contemporary was a collection of many different dances with The Great Galloping Gottschaulk being the main and final performance. 

The dancers used many different costumes with a lot of different colors throughout the play. During the plays lighter moments, the dancers had many light colors such as light blues and light shades of yellow and red which created a gentile and happy environment on stage. During the darker, sadder moments, the lights would dim to a dark blue while the dancers changed into darker green costumes. In doing this, you could feel the whole overall mood of the dance change. Having only two -three people dancing during that time also contributed to the sad scenes. 

During different scenes throughout the dance performance, I experienced many different feelings while watching. There was a playful scene where two dancers would try and fight each other to prove who was the tougher man. There were also different depressing scenes where you felt sadness in the environment. 

There were many scenes that I liked over other scenes from the dance performance. I enjoyed the The Great Galloping Gottschaulk part of the performance the most. I also enjoyed the playful scene where the two male dancers fought each other to prove their strength. There was also many scenes that I saw that seemed to drag on. Overall however though, I can tell that the dancers put a lot of time and effort into their performance so i commend them for that. The whopping $16 that I had to pay I feel was too much. Other than that, it was an okay performance.