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Dance
The ACHS Dancers have been working diligently to produce their first ever virtual dance concert. The dancers have been reflecting on their experiences over the past year as adolescents living through a pandemic in the form of movement investigations. They collaboratively choreographed “Coping with Covid'' dances that explore a wide spectrum of material from embodying themes of chaos and isolation, to creating “Toilet Paper Parodies.”
We invite you to enjoy the works below, and stream our concert online on Friday June 11, 2021 by clicking HERE.
Music: Diablo Rojo By: Rodrigo y Gabriela
The senior dancers transport the audience back to a time last spring when everyone was on the hunt for the once mundane household product, toilet paper. They utilize toilet paper as a prop to accentuate their movements and tell the tale through their creation of the Toilet Paper Parody.
Music: Minute Waltz By: Frédéric Chopin
The freshman dancers collaborated to create a parody that investigates the teacher vs. student perspective of online learning. Considering the struggles we as a community have faced and overcame this year, the ninth grade students felt that the best way to reflect is to bring light to the situation through comedic relief, #Relatable.
Poem: The Hill We Climb By: Amanda Gorman
The dancers had the opportunity to attend a series of after-school classes with the celebrated Step Dance artist, Emerald Holman. They utilized their developed toolbox of Step Dance movement vocabulary to individually choreograph a stanza of Amanda Gorman's, "The Hill We Climb" poem.
Music
Instrumental Music-Orchestra
"Burst" by Brian Balmages
"Song 1"
an original song composed by Nathaniel Baptista
"De Colores" arr. by Jeremy Woolstenhulme
Instrumental Music-Band
New Wade in the Water, by Adolphus Hailstork
Vocal Music
CONCERT CHORUS
IT HAD TO BE YOU & YOU MADE ME LOVE YOU
By ISHAM JONES/GUSS KAHN &
JAMES V. MONACO/JOSEPH MCCARTHY
Arranged and Orchestrated by ADAM and MATT PODD
Piano
"Rainbow and Love"
an original composition
"Heat Wave"
an original composition
"The Turtle is Fast This Time"
an original composition
Theater