Saturday, 31 October, 2009| Comments | Make A Comment | Share on Facebook
First of all can I apologise for not writing in such a long time, it's shameful and inexcusable, but life has been hectic and now I have a good story to put forward. On Thursday 29th and Friday 30th of October I was honored to watch the B.A hons Degree students of SSCD in their annual production of 'Preci-pieces.' Throughout the cause of these two evenings, 20 individual and unique dance pieces were revealed, with the boundaries of contemporary dance being pushed to it's limits.
Over the past several weeks, the tension at SSCD has been quiet intense, with the Degree first major show of the year looming, and a very tight time scale to make their pieces nothing less than sensational, emotions were running high. Mad rushes to get costumes made, rehearsals going on throughout the evening, and seeing everyone go almost insane makes you think why on earth do we put ourselves through it??? Maybe it's for the love of the drama, or even the love of excitement. Sometimes it could boil down to the passion of your art form, or even the thrill of success, but one thing is sure these students wanted to make a statement and boy didn't the succeed in doing so.
'Preci-pieces,' had something for everyone. Comedy, drama, emotional exploration, singing, XXX, whatever you was in the mood for you would of been more than satisfied. As I share a working environment and have close friendships with a lot of the performers, it would be almost biest of me to give the show to much congratulations, but from an outside point of view, it was truely sensational.
To kick of Thursday evening were comical pieces exploring models, catwalks, saturday nights in front of the television, love (the breakdown or build up), and war, so from the outset it was going to be quiet a divers show. Only to be topped off with an in site into festivals, relationships with an individuals mother (for F*** sake were are my keys, PETAL!,) and for the first time in the evening pure dance pieces, showing off the performers to have great technical ability and strength.
Friday night went even further into the realm's of, what can only be described as 'UNIQUE'. Dancers locked in cadges, Killers bees on the loose, the power the mind has over your existence, and a comical edge on nuclear war. By the interval I was mentally exhausted. As i imagined the second half didn't give me any breathing space. I was taken back to the 70's with a Look into clockwork orange, I experiences the myth of the population that live in the underground of NY, personalities thrown at me from every directions (High D or is she a High C), and a stunning Duet in silence was all i thought I could handle. and then...
BOOM!
Topping off the evening was nothing short of fascinating. On a personal level if I'm ever confronted with a piece that explores adult nature, or explicit scene's I usually get offended easily or not entertained, but on this occasion I was pleasantly surprised. What the choreographer did was put a comical edge on topics that are in your face and powerful. This for me took the edge of what could of been in your face and shocking.
All that's left to be said is well done, and in my eyes you've successfully made the transformation to professional artists.
Andrew
