Wednesday, April 8, 2009
I liked the Wade in the Water clip by Alvin Ailey's dance group. This was the first time that I actually watched and paid attention to this type of dance. But as I watched I began to notice how interesting this form of dance was. As the music played the dancers would somewhat dance in sync with each other; but the dancers individually would dance have their own slighty variation of the dance moves. Because I know the meaning or message of the actual song Wade in the Water I was able to follow and kind of understand the moves corresponding to the song. In the dance moves just as I saw indicidualism, I also noticed "aesthetic of cool," like each dancer would flow with the music and from each move to the next. As I watched the clip I also picked up on how the dance moves had a lot of traditional African characteristics in each dance move individually. Overall I found this to be an interesting African American art form that I, myself have observed before.
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