Review of the UVM Dance Students Showcase

Before last semester, I didn't really understand all that spiritual crap. I thought that people who “danced through their soul” were just full of it. But then I took Dance 060 with Clare Byrnes (you should all take it if you have any room for a FUN class), and the whole spiritual thing made sense. I mostly took it because I heard it was an easy A, and then I actually started to like it. Clare taught me a lot about dance, and I began to appreciate the art that I thought only girls who don’t shower and hipster kids who cover Bailey Howe with their cigarette smoke as they complain about how hard it is writing their English papers are would like. I really grew to like the class and everyone in it and it was definitely a crazy spiritual experience.

But that’s not what I came here to talk about. I recently saw a showcase put on by UVM students (Clare always makes her students perform for an audience) and I absolutely loved it. One of my good friends Sonia Santvoord is the one who invited me and I’m so glad that I went. I was in a grumpy mood because I’d just got woken up from a nap and I was not tryna get my soul touched. But I did, and I left Southwick Hall with a much better feeling about myself. It was the first time in a long time that I had gone to something extracurricular that I was not getting credit for, and I sat through the entire performance, without having to pretend that I needed a “bathroom break.” The different girls in the class were all so poised, passionate, and talented at dancing and a lot of them were funny and fun to watch! I wish more people went to stuff like this, because I’m sure the students in Clare’s choreography class could have used the extra support, or maybe even the extra pressure. I loveeeedddd watching the various performances and I wish they happened more often. They were really cool to watch and I encourage all my peers to stop by a show some time! They’re usually free and less than an hour long, and they’re just super entertaining. At the end of the night I promise you’ll feel cooler, or if not you’ll at least get a kick out of it because this is not ordinary choreography.. UVM does do everything bigger and better.