On saturday night I went with my best friend to my last cultural event which happened to be a dance performance. I looked a lot but had a hard time finding a dance performance to go that would fit my schedule so I had to settle for a ballroom dance at UVU.
We were some of the first people there and noticed that there wasn't many people but seats started to fill in the closer we got for the dance to start and it looked like mostly family had shown up to for the dancers support. That kind of reminded me of being back in highschool but the crowd was loud and fun. For me personally, I have never been the biggest fan of ballroom dance and the opening scene didn't help me out that much. It started out when the spotlight was shown on a guy hoisted up, standing on the hands of all the other guys with a very serious and I guess he was going for sexy look on his face with his arms crossed. They brought him out more to the front where they put him down and his partner came out and they started to dance. Then the whole dance team came out and performed a latin medley, which I learned was a combination of all the dances in a time period of about 6 minutes. Two medley's were performed, a latin medley to begin and a standard medley to finish. In between those two dances were a series of fox trots, cha cha's, waltses and you everything you would expect at a ballrom dance. One of my favorite dances was a couple who came out together and started to do a series of lifts that were pretty good. On one of the lifts the guy dropped the girl he was holding above his head, grabbed her leg and arm and swung her around with the momentum they had created and I swear her face got to about an inch above the ground. I did have a good time at the performance and I thought UVU did a good job. One thing I liked about it was that it showed so much variety from different cultures and backrounds and we never really got into ballrom dance in class, like where it started and how it has evolved. I would like to know that and will do some investigating on my own.
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I went to BYU's dancesport which was good but it sounds like UVU had a better show. I also like how dance shows the culture and social aspect of different times and places.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a borderline fun event. Dance seems to be a pretty extreme art form, it combines a level of expression with highly tunes physical control. I don't know anything about dance (still) so I don't think I would've got much from it, either.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good cultural event, especially with a loud family crowd. Ballroom is such a beautiful dance form and very innovative, thanks for sharing!
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