Dance ’til You’re Dead review
Photo Credit: Colin McCormick
Jacqui Marzocca, Managing Editor
November 29, 2011
Filed under Entertainment, Top Stories
Corona’s newest dance show, “Dance ’til You’re Dead” was undoubtedly a success, aside from a few minor issues. Unfortunately, I was only able to attend the Friday night show, which had a few technical difficulties. The show was not able to start until roughly 8:30 p.m on Friday night. During this time, Gilbert maintained communication with the audience about the problems that were occurring and the time expected until the show could go on.
“The official problem was that the processor blew. It is something that is also difficult to detect, so it took us quite a while before we found this to be the problem,” dance teacher Aaron Gilbert said. “I did not know the processor blew until the show had finished on Friday night. Fortunately, the owner of Aspire was there and went to their gym and loaned us a portable sound system. This was something that could not be foreseen nor could it be repaired quickly. It has yet to be repaired, as a matter of fact. We bypassed the problem so we could have sound for Saturday’s show. We went in at 7a.m. Saturday and the sound expert we hired spent about two –and- a- half hours to accomplish this task.”
While waiting, students, family and parents visited with each other in the auditorium. Also, Richard Cardona and Donivin Duran gave a go of entertaining the crowd with some hip hop moves.
When the show finally began, the audience witnessed a mass of talented dancers showcasing their hard work. In my mind, the talent made up for the problems at the beginning of the show. The audience was very enthusiastic throughout the show and showed massive support for the dancers.
Some of the student choreographers that helped make this show so terrific included Madi Brown, Marisa Koster and Irene Ashu. All of these dancers are members of Corona del Sol’s Dance Company (CDSDC) and they choreographed at least two dances, as well as co-choreographed the finale, “Run The World”, along with Shelbi Papp.
Each different level danced at least two routines, though CDSDC participated in five: “Heads Will Roll,” “Countdown,” “School Cliques,” “What A Feeling” and “Dock of The Bay” with ranging styles from hip-hop to lyrical.
Overall, I enjoyed the show immensely and would highly encourage any student to go and attend one of Corona del Sol’s upcoming dance shows.
