Term Papers on Academy Spring Graduation Performance

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Academy Spring Graduation Performance

On Friday April 23, 2004 I watched the Ben Stevenson Academy Spring Graduation Performance.  The performance was held at the Worthem Theater located in downtown Houston.  The theater is huge.  As expected I had a hard time finding parking witch caused me to be late.  As I was walking into the theater I notice that I was somewhat underdressed.  I wore khaki pants and a collard shirt and everyone else was wearing elegant formal wear.   My seat was way up top in the balcony.  I had a hard time taking notes throughout the performance so after a while I just watched and tried to absorb as much as possible.  I didn’t have any expectations on the event because I didn’t know too much about it.  The overall experience was better than I thought.  Parts of the show I really enjoyed, other parts nearly put me to sleep.

The first Performance was a prototypical ballet.  When I think of going to a ballet I think of a man in tights, and a woman in a too too, and that is exactly what I encountered.  As I said before I walked in a little late, but when I walked in they were in the middle of a pas de Deux.  The duet consisted of a man and a woman.  I believe there names were Connor Walsh and Jennifer Warnik.  The costumes of the two dancers looked like traditional ballet costumes.  Walsh was wearing white tights and a long sleeve shirt.  The shirt was low-cut and didn’t go past his waist.  It had black, red and white sparkles on it.  Jennifer Warnik was also clad in traditional ballet wardrobe, which consisted of a too-too and panty hose.  The too-too and panty hose were both pink and her top was a long sleeve tight shirt.  Her costume had red and gold sparkles on it.  The music was classical and sounded kind of dramatic.  The stage was very bare.  There was nothing special about the scenery.  The only thing on the stage were benches that other dancers were sitting on during the pas de Deux.  The lighting was very basic.  It looked to be just basic house lights.  The Pas de Deux consisted of a lot of graceful leaps and jumps.  Most of the duet was at a high level.  Not one time during the dance did they go to a low level.  Most of the dance was slow and elegant.  Both of the dancers used the stage well.  They were never in one spot.  Most of the movements were big. Most points in the dance use low energy, but some times used high energy when the music was at a faster tempo.  Throughout the Pas de Deux there were other dancers on the stage setting around watching. They were sitting on benches placed on the sides and at the back of the stage.  Their costumes looked Shakespearian style.  After the Pas De Deux all of the dancers exited the stage and out came six female dancers in all pink costumes.  They had a short dance that consisted of high leaps and splits in the air.

Next was a solo by Connor Walsh.  He came out from upstage right.  Walsh did about seven or eight consecutive jumps and spins all the way around the stage.  His solo was a high energy dan...

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