If writing about a video dancing( time should be at least 10 minutes), links to the performance should be included.
Guidelines to writing about dance for performance papers:
- Evaluate and critique what you see based on specific, relatively objective criteria. Ask yourself what the choreographer is attempting to accomplish/communicate. How is the choreographer using dance to do this? Does the work accomplish/communicate what it set out to do?
- Do not write in the first person, and please do not use the words incredible, amazing, unbelievable, or awesome.
- Rather than writing about what you liked or didn’t like, consider that a well-conceived and well written evaluation will make that clear.
- Use examples to support your observations. Look at the choreography, the quality of the movement (how it is accomplished), the use of groups/solos, the use of space, the relationship between the music and the dance, the lighting design, the idea and feelings it portrayed.
- Use both metaphor and concrete descriptions. Assume that the reader has not seen the dance. Make the reader see what you saw.
- In writing your papers specifically for Jazz:
- Be specific about how the performance may or may not relate to elements that are discussed in our course. Questions to be answered may include:
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- How was musicality and rhythm incorporated in the performance?
- Did the movement include seamless transitions?
- Were the performers dynamic? Did they relate to each other and or the audience?
- How were elements such as lighting, costumes, and set pieces used to support the themes/messages of the piece
- Did the performance exhibit movement specific to the jazz technique? If so, give examples.
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