Dance Show “Finding Balance” Reflection

Chaoguang Xu

Janice Baker

Dance 270

8 February 2014

Dance Show “Finding Balance” Reflection

I watched the dance show “Finding balance” on Friday night and it is a fantastic and aesthetic show. The dancers are most the students in our college and they showed the beauty of dance in the stage to us. The dance are separate with 16 show orders and every show has a theme. Finding Balance has multiple pieces by different individuals addressing falling and getting lost, and then finding the way, or regaining balance. The shows just like many stories, they gave many imaginations and feelings. Although there was no word in the dance, the body movements still told me many things. In one word, I pretty love this show.

I used to think dance only is the art show in the stage and I could not understand that why some people say “dance comes from life”. From this show, I can absolutely understand it. For example, “A Day in Transportation”, a theme in the dance show. This show are separated with several parts, just like a bus, some people get on and some people leave. However, the dances were different when different people in the bus. When there were several girls in the bus, their dances were lively; when there were several boys in the bus, their dance were wild, when there were several boys and girls in the bus, their dance were elegant. In our lives, nobody will dance in the bus, however, we always think something, chat or observe other people in the bus. I think this dance express the feeling in our heart when we are in the bus. Girls always like chatting in the bus so the dancers express their joy with lively action. When there are no girls in a bus, the boys do not need to hide actions so they are wild in the dance. However, when some girls get on the bus, the boy became gentlemanlike immediately because they want attract the girls.

This dance show also let me understand a lot of truth. In our lives, many people always feel difficult or stress sometimes. We may confuse...