I would have gladly watched this pair for the entire program on Friday!
Not only do I love Nina Simone's "Feeling Good", I also dearly love couples dancing, whether on the floor, on an ice rink, or underwater.
The SBHF32 had this number at the heart of its "New World, New Life, New Change" show from the SSU Obsidian Dance Repertory, a group I enjoyed at 31SBHF.
The troupe began with another Nina Simone song, "Four Women", performed ingeniously by Kalisha Credle removing an article of clothing for each character - brava!
I also very much liked "Metamorphosis", with two women evolving, as well as "Suite 125", with its cast of six busily going through stages of life and work.
In addition, "This Is America" and its lone male dancer was eloquent far beyond the words of the rap song.
However, after the program had run its course, this was the segment - near time-stamp 19:20 - I returned to again and again.
Alonzo Boschulte and Toni Renee Johnson reminded me of another couple - Lorenzo and Cree - that I had so enjoyed, years ago.
Such grace, such synchronicity, such pure joy in movement exhibited by this pair - yes, that reminds me of my disco days and dancing close with another, and I definitely want that again, still, always.
I don't know that I would have referred to them as such, since the programs of each consisted of only three songs.
Koryn Hawthorne is shown here performing "Sunday", which, even though it was religious, reminded me very much of The Cure's "Friday I'm In Love".
How so? The litany of days at the heart of the chorus of both songs!
India Shawn was the other songstress and she was obviously right at home, literally, with her shoes off and her demeanor casual - very nice!
Although her tunes were nice, it was the art on the wall that really held my attention.
What an interesting take on the old maxim, "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"!
It was too large to have had a space in my house, but I liked its boldness!
I liked the boldness of tonight's program, too - plus the fact that it was on tv!!!
That meant I could watch it on my Element instead of a small screen - hooray!
I made sure before we all left the Asbury Memorial Zoom "coffee hour" that they all knew WSAV would have this treat, just as I'd told my first niece and her family at lunch yesterday.
How wonderful to know folks I love were watching and dancing along with me!
Oh, had I not yet mentioned that this was another dance program?
Yes, yes, it was, with the Hiplet (pronounced HIP-lay) Ballerinas, a troupe that has combined hiphop style and en pointe to create Sugarplum Fairies like no other!
Not that they were performing that December treat - not at all - but that remembrance is what popped into my head while they danced this portion of "The African Suite".
Not that they were performing that December treat - not at all - but that remembrance is what popped into my head while they danced this portion of "The African Suite".
Another bit during that fifteen minutes involved a quartet that may well have been speaking a new type of sign language!
Does it not seem that they are forming letters of hieroglyphs with their movements?
I wonder if that was a subliminal intention of the choreographer or merely my mind's interpretation?
I do know this: littlest girl was digging the groove and dancing along, as was I!
It occurred to me, while I was watching them, enthralled during the oh-too-short, thirty-minute show with its four suites, that some of this felt very familiar to me.
Then I realized - between "Chain Of Fools" and them dancing on their toes I was harkening back to my disco days again!
I had done this very move, in three-inch heels and a mini-skirt, on a lighted dance floor in so many clubs - ah, good times!
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