During the second week of the summer intensive, we had to learn excerpts of 4 repertories of Amy Marshall Dance Company, including "Duet", "Fire of the Dove Solo", "A Klezmer Nutcracker Fight" and "Two Duets and A Quartet Duet", and these excerpts are performed at the Student Showing on the final day of the intensive program.
Before coming to NYC, I have already seen some of the works of Amy Marshall from the company's website, however, learning to dance the repertories enabled me to have much more understandings about her works, and I am especially impressed by their diversity --- pieces that are created from a thematic approach or movement approach, pieces that are emotional, touching, energetic or humourous. Most of Amy's works have very complete story line which clearly conveys the pictures and most important of all, feeling to the audiance, while some are with sense of humour which I think is not easy to add into choreography. Even for some of the works which are abstract and more from a movement approach, the use of space and arrangement of movements of different qualities within the pieces make them substantial.
I really enjoy learning to dance and learning the techniques of choreography from the repertories of Amy!
--- Stella
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