My capstone’s title is “ We Are Who We Are”. For this, I used the song “ This Is Me” by Keala Settle, The Greatest Showman Ensemble. This dance was performed for the Arizona dance festival. For my Capstone project, I took some time to choreograph the dance. I’d first play the music and improv to it and record it. When looking over the video, I would pick out what I liked and keep that in the dance.  Moving forward in the dance I choreographed as if it was a solo, then once it was done I would mix up the movement so that not everyone would be doing the same thing. Now going into my formations, I had some trouble putting the formations I imagined on paper to then tell my team where to go.  The formation that took the most time was the first formation because I had to make sure that the pathways for the crossing would be symmetrical and that everyone would get to their spots on time.  When teaching the choreography it was easy but what I struggled with was trying to express myself and explain myself. It was trying to explain the choreography step by step. Another struggle was having to change formations, the reason being that I had certain people in the front for the clump part, but I had to switch them because they weren’t able to make it in time.

    For my Capstone, I wanted to show who we are, and how we are defined. Meaning that I connected it to our own culture. We all come from different cultures and all look different. When making this dance I wanted to add movement that we all liked and were good at because it’s to showcase us. I’ve had always been that person that wants to add things that everyone likes. Mostly in this dance, the reason bringing is that I want everyone to be conformable but at the same time challenging. Being who we are is showing who we are, and we all showed that through the dance. 

    Moving forward, the fine arts course impacted my education because it gave me more reason to come to school. Although at times it did make me stressed because we had so much going on with the dance course. I still considered it a stress reliever. I have always left my problem outside the door because I never want my problems to affect my team. Also with taking a fine art course, I had another family, my dance family. I would always create bonds and friendships. Overall I felt like taking Dance is was a reason why I have good grades, another family, and somewhere where I can forget what’s on my mind.

    Going back to my project, I felt like it was great but that there could have been some improvements. One improvement in the dance is to have more roll-offs. The reason why I say roll off’s is because it is almost the whole dance we are all dancing together. The second reason is to be more creative with my formations, I feel like the formations chosen could’ve been way better, I feel something other than a line.  The last improvement I would like to make is to add a show factor, like a lift. I feel like adding a lift would make a difference because it draws people’s attention.