Donna Mejia: "Marveling in Motility" featuring Smith/Five College Dance Students

This recital work, choreographed by Donna Mejia, was performed in the 2008 Faculty Dance Concert for Smith College in Northampton, MA. The music is "Wonder" by Lynx (ASCAP fees paid). Backdrop Images of traditional Ottoman textiles used by permission of Interlink Publishing. Ensemble: Cyndal Ellis, Jericha Senyak, Katrina Totten, Zoe Kantor, Kira Disen, Annie Parker, Laura Markis, Aiden Bartelt, Chelsea Wise, Leah Moriarty, Bethany Luisos, Sandra Vega and Cecily Parker. Soloist: Donna Mejia and Mohammadreza Moradi

The dance seeks common denominators between Persian, Turkish and Arab vernacular while dialoging with the electronic accents in the music. We hope you enjoy.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Arab American Fusion
• persian
• tribal fusion
• belly dance
• donna mejia
• international
• electronic music
• contemporary dance
• college dance

[NevaCha]

Amazing!

[istriana2005]

WONDERFUL !

[hilde1982dance]

Donna, that is so amazing... and there are so many of them I thought I was tripping :)

great to meet you over the weekend and hope to see you soon

xxx

[God4Dunoon]

Wow.. love and respect

[irinakom1]

Gorgeous! I am speechless! Powerful pauses and stillness. Powerful movements! I love your work!

[adrypani]

so amazing work!!! really love it!!!! 5* love all the movement in the piece!

[Nazabrillaud22]

IMPRECIONANTE!!!!!

Love!

[principessachuck]

Woww!! What a piece of artwork!!!! you can tell how hard they worked for this and its awesome!! it really talks to me!.. I just personally didnt like how the guy disrupted the dance and became the only star all of a sudden... but altogether its an awesome piece, great great great gave it 5 stars

[ShadhaNacira]

Precioso, muy coordinadas aunque es una pena que la cámara no enfoque más de cerca porque de lejos cuesta apreciar los movimientos

[MarilynFlo]

Almost as good as it was in person ;)

Thanks for posting, Donna!