Thank you all for joining us for the 2023 MEN IN DANCE Choreographers Showcase!
As this is a Community Education Event we have outlined a Community Agreement as follows:
Your Role
You’re going to work. You don’t have to, but we hope you’ll want to.
We would like the choreographers to hear your impressions of their work in the form of your written feedback (as if you were speaking to your best friend).
Your Feedback
Each one of you will receive 5 colored cards: one to represent each choreographer on this evening’s program.
In Act I, after each piece on the program we will bring up the house lights so that you may write down some comments/reflections on what you just saw. And here are the criteria we’d like you to consider:
(first, write as if you were speaking to your best friend)
Your Criteria
CRAFT:
Did you think that the piece had a good beginning, middle and end? Did you think that the movement vocabulary and the sound score worked well together? Or whatever craft means to you. In other words, we’d like more than “I liked it” or “I didn’t like it”. If you want to say I didn’t like it, then elaborate. For example “I didn’t like it, because I wasn’t dancing in it! It was fabulous!”
CREATIVE CONTENT:
Did it take you on a journey? Did you think it had a message?
Did you resonate with it? Was it thought provoking? Were you intrigued because it had conflict or were you entertained because it had pure harmony? How did it make you feel?
Use big words but write them clearly because during intermission we will collect your cards.
Your Contribution
In ACT II we will pick one card of each color out of a basket and its comments will be read out loud to be used as part of our discussion. Feel free to sign your cards in case the choreographers may want to hear more details from you after the show.
Each choreographer will receive ALL their colored cards for personal feedback at the end of each show.
If you wish to offer a success score from 1 to 10 as well, please feel free to do so.