Avocado Banana Dance Report

The TOES for Dance performance consisted of modern dance as well as one dance with an urban take. Modern dance is a performing art in which a dancer can express themselves and take a new point of view on the dance. One dance that stood out would be a solo called “Avocado Banana” performed by Scott McCabe, which he improvised. Scott McCabe stopped enjoying dance as he started feeling fatigue and didn’t feel the rush of performing, so he decided to make a solo which would be fun. So he participated in workshops and tried new things with friends. In the end, Scott was able to make a solo that was able to sum up why he enjoyed dancing and expressed who he was as a dancer. All of the performers, including Scott, are professionals, male and female, …show more content…
Whether it was focusing on a small movement like tapping a foot or a larger picture. The dancers used how the human brain notices anything unique. For example, one dancer, David Norsworthy, would be using small gestures instead of large amounts of movement and standing in the back, yet audience members enjoyed watching him for a majority of the performance. Also, conversations taking place after the performance usually led back to “Splurge Land” as everyone had something new to add about the dance because every audience member saw something different. The lighting of this dance also had an interesting role as different lightings could change how the dance was viewed completely. Instead of bright lights pointing down that are usually found in performances, there were soft lights pointing towards the back making shadows dance around a white sheet on the back wall. A couple audience members noticed how the shadows blended to become one, the motions became fluid, and size differed as the dancers moved across the stage. The dancers shadows became one another’s or blended when the dancers split up into pairs and used each other. At one point, the two dancers would change places and move without letting the other go, as though they were one. These movements allowed the dance to flow however the audience viewed the performance. Lastly, the movement across the stage allowed the shadows to shrink and grow. If one pair was upstage while the other was downstage, but both pairs are doing the same movements, it appears that they are the same two

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