Personal Narrative: Dance Is A Living Art Form

As stated before in our first lecture, dance is a living and fleeting art form. I believe that dance is a living art form because it is a three-dimensional picture to art. What I mean by this is that, art is normally seen on walls or as sculptures, but dance is an amazing opportunity to view art while in movement. If you are anything like me, when I look at a painting of two people or many, I always wonder what it would be like to see them actually dancing, singing, or even laughing. By watching dance, it is my living art form. You can see the colors of the attire worn by the dancers, the sound of music while the dancers dance, and the love of what they do through their faces, but it is fleeting because dance only happens once. You can never see the same performance twice. It will be different every time, whether it is different dancers on stage or a slight change in the music, but that’s why I like dance because though it is never the same, the emotion you will feel while watching this live art being danced in front of you will forever be the same. The audience should consider itself to be a full member of a dance production because they are what keeps dance performances going. The audience pays for the tickets which in turn helps pay for the props, the attire of the dancers, the stage crew, the dancers themselves, and more. Without an audience there would be no performances. Also, while the audience plays an important role in the performance, there are a few things that they should not do. First, they should never jump up and holler because they thought the performance was amazing; this is not a football game. They should just clap and yes, even stand up at the end, but only clap. Second, the audience should never have their phones out! The audience should be there to watch it with their eyes, not look at their phone, take flash photography, or even record. It is disrespectful, a distraction to the other audience members and also the dancers on stage. The next time you go to a performance, please sit and watch and enjoy the moment. I chose to watch and write about the video on Swan Lake. …show more content…
To start off, when you first start to watch the video, the cameraman focuses specifically on four young dancers. These four young women are wearing white tutus, point-shoes, and white feathered headpieces. As the video plays on the dancers move along with the slow, then fast, back to slow, and then right back to fast, beats of the music. The dancers are very focused on each and every step to make sure they are in sync with one another. The movements the dancers make are smooth, repetitive for a limited time, then on to the next movement, and are connected. What I mean by connected, is that the dancers wove their arms to hold their hands and never broke the bond. The way I interpreted the dance was that each one of the young women are swans trying to stand out but also be a united front. The reason for this observation is because each dancer had on a white tutu, a white feathered head piece, and white tights on. Also, another observation I made was that Swan Lake is specifically a ballet because of the gracefulness. Swans are