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This past week was Ririe Woodbury week in Dance Company. We are extremely lucked to get dancers from a professional modern company come and choreograph a dance for our spring concert. And we get THREE! This is very rare, and we're so lucky Kim has connections and that Ririe is so supportive of dance in education.
This year, the Seniors got Mary Lynn. We know most of the dancers from workshops in the summer. We were all super excited to work with her. The process was very intense, creative and eye-opening. We had a great time. We practiced till 4:30 Monday thru Friday and came away with a 5:30 minute dance. Modern itself is so personal and unique and demands growth, concentration and work. It's not like any other dance style. A lot of people think it's similar to contemporary, but I'm starting to realize how different they really are. Modern is much more inventive, deep, and abstract. I love contemporary, and know that the movement is also very unique. But in modern all the moves are nameless. They are so weird and wacky they don't have any dance terminology. SOmetimes, modern goes over my head. And the dances are too long. And I just want to watch So You Think You Can Dance or see a ballet at Capital Theatre. But there's something intriguing about the dancers, the message, the movement, the music and the outlandishness of it all.
Thanks Mary Lynn!!

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