{"id":2771,"date":"2015-10-29T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/?p=2771"},"modified":"2016-06-02T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T18:10:04","slug":"students-present-still-standing-at-dance-workshop-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/atb\/2015\/10\/29\/students-present-still-standing-at-dance-workshop-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Present \u201cStill Standing\u201d at Dance Workshop 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A shot from Dance Workshop 2014; check back for photos from this year’s performances.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Montana Bass \u201918<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hours of collaboration, choreography, and rehearsal culminate next week with 2015\u2019s Dance Workshop performances. This year\u2019s show entitled \u201cStill Standing,\u201d takes place Friday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2:30 and 9 p.m. in Armstrong Theatre.<\/p>\n

The show features 14 pieces, exhibiting a wide range of dance styles from modern, to swing, to hip-hop. The dancers, led by co-chairs, Alison Rowe \u201916 and Evans Levy \u201918, had to pull things together more quickly this year, with performances taking place during Block 3, as opposed to the middle of Block 4 as in years past. \u201cStill Standing\u201d came together an entire month earlier, so for Rowe and Levy, show planning began before the start of the academic year, as they worked to choreograph a try-out dance for auditioning performers. In the first week of Block 1, they held choreographer auditions, where students looking to choreograph numbers for the show presented their ideas. \u201cWe ask you to present everything you have,\u201d Levy said of the audition process. \u201cShow us the song, if you have choreography, share what you\u2019re inspired by, how many dancers you want, anything and everything you can tell us about the piece. We try to make sure it\u2019s a well-rounded show. We want to know you have the drive to put the piece together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, more than 100 student dancers auditioned for Rowe, Levy, and the selected choreographers; dancers may be chosen to perform in up to three numbers. This is the most stressful part of the process, according to Levy. \u201cIt can be hard to get choreographers to cast people they don\u2019t know and step out of their comfort zone.\u201d Over the next two months, choreographers and dancers go to work practicing individual pieces once or twice a week, while the co-chairs continue work to set the schedule for tech rehearsals, finalize the order of the numbers for the show, develop publicity materials for the event, and, Levy notes, send \u201cabout a billion emails.\u201d<\/p>\n

The week before the show may be both the most hectic and the most exciting according to Levy. \u201cThe pieces evolve so much during that week. When you put the pieces on stage, people realize there\u2019s actually going to be a performance and that\u2019s when it really starts to look like a show,\u201d said Levy. \u201cI\u2019m really excited to see the first run through and see how the pieces have come together.\u201d For everyone involved, the shows are a source of pride. Dancers experience the high of performing on stage, choreographers see a once-vague vision play out, and the co-chairs reap the satisfaction of seeing the show go on, despite a multitude of challenges and problems that may have arisen along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall it\u2019s really cool to be a part of something so big,\u201d Levy said. \u201cThis is the biggest student-run performance event and I didn\u2019t realize how much work went into it, but I appreciate it all the more because of that. There\u2019s such a community that\u2019s built around it and so many friendships that are made.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montana Bass \u201918 Hours of collaboration, choreography, and rehearsal culminate next week with 2015\u2019s Dance Workshop performances. This year\u2019s show entitled \u201cStill Standing,\u201d takes place Friday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 7, at 2:30 and 9 p.m. in Armstrong Theatre. The show features 14 pieces, exhibiting a wide range of dance styles … <\/p>\n

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