{"id":214859,"date":"2021-06-04T09:03:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T13:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/?p=214859"},"modified":"2021-06-11T09:15:49","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:15:49","slug":"dancing-in-the-street-a-day-of-100-solos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2021\/06\/04\/dancing-in-the-street-a-day-of-100-solos\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing in the Street: A Day of 100 Solos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Performances by more than 100 Dance majors in Montclair State\u2019s Department of Theatre and Dance recently took place around campus as a culminating experience of spring 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Day of 100 Solos was inspired by the work of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/theatre-and-dance\/2021\/05\/21\/day-of-100-solos\/\">guest choreographers<\/a>\u00a0and repertory workshops, says Professor of Theatre and Dance Elizabeth McPherson, adding that it provided opportunities for the dancers to investigate and embody a deeper understanding of movement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that people got the chance to see art in a different light,\u201d says Jordan Jackson, among the Dance majors who participated in adapting the choreography for the outdoors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: 100 Dance Majors Perform Day of 100 Solos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7szq0qq-HQ8?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For many of the students, it was the first time they were engaged in a 45-minute continuous performance, and as the semester closed amid the pandemic, it provided a welcomed release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was the entire point of this piece,\u201d says Dance major Sabrina Petrelli, \u201cto create a community in the crazy times that we live in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDancing in the grass,\u201d adds Dance major Amelia Sanders, \u201cwas wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/profilepages\/view_profile.php?username=apostolouc\">Christodoulos Apostolou<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>You May Also Like:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2021\/04\/16\/the-great-outdoor-classroom\/\">The Great Outdoor Classroom<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/\/ Output tags as a list for Google Analytics custom dimension\nwindow.MSU_TagList = [];\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special event showcases choreography performed by Dance majors on campus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":214860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214965,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214859\/revisions\/214965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}