Analysis Of The Beautiful Annabel Lee

On March 16 at 8:00pm, the Tower Dancers performed their yearly concert. The concert contained eight dances with varying music styles and themes. The concert was composed of entirely live music and sounds, which provided a different spin on the ordinary dance performance. Even though the live music was somewhat distracting from viewing the dancers, the live music allowed for variation within each performance. The dance Lone, choreographed by Sophie Marie Goreki and performed to Madelyn Sneckner's The Beautiful Annabel Lee, caught my eye to have a centralized theme that was evident throughout the entire piece. With only five dancers, the theme of loneliness amidst a crowd echoed through every movement. The dance through the music and movement …show more content…
The facial expressed solidified the feeling of seclusion from the beginning and added a lot to the theme of the dance. The dancers covered their mouths a lot. In a lot of the combinations that composed the dance as a whole, the dancers protected their faces with their hands. This repeated action signified silence and the feeling of being unknown. By covering their mouths, dancers explained an aspect of loneliness. Loneliness is silence. Loneliness is the inability to speak up and speak to people. Loneliness is having little deep communication with the hundreds people that surround you on a daily basis. The dance contained a lot of repetition in movements and combinations. The dancers repeated head, arm, and hand movements. This repetition emphasized the routine of people's daily lives that make humans numb to the pain, suffering, and hardships of other people. Loneliness grows because people do not acknowledge it or they fail to truly emphasis with those suffering. I found the amount of head, arm, and hand movement in the dance piece the most intriguing. Dancers moved their hands above their head or did a pushing movement down with their hands by their head. It showed how often people attempt to push away feelings of isolation or even fail to truly confess their struggles with the feeling. They allow the feeling to fester in their heart and continue to push it underneath their …show more content…
There were a few minor technicalities, but as a whole the dance performed and expressed well. By the dancers working together, the dance did a great job stirring up the hearts of the audience to act upon the feeling articulated in this work of art. The audience could not leave the concert without wanting to interact with their friends and family in a different way that expressed more compassion and love. The dance commented on the loneliness of humanity in a fresh and powerful way that was completely different from how writings, poems, or songs could