 The Rife Dance Company has been working hard these past few weeks on their most intimate show. Reporter Cheryl Moore has a preview of their company's show for this week's In Focus. The hours of practices, buckets of sweat, moments of triumphs and failures have all led to the special moment on stage. This is one of my favorite shows personally just because you have Nutcracker which is the Christmas thing of the year and then you have Spring Show which kind of ends the year and it has like a theme but company show is more something a little more real and a little more like a different side of what people see of us. The company's show incorporates a bit of everything from modern to jazz. What you can see in this show is they sort of interweave the disciplines um we don't have we have you know maybe one or two strictly ballet pieces but then the rest are you know incorporate everything that they've learned. The company's show is also extremely personal. Every step you see was choreographed by the dancers themselves. This year I was fortunate enough to choreograph two pieces in the show one upon myself which is my senior solo and one upon eight other girls um two music that a friend of mine actually made which is really exciting. One of my pieces it's like the music's called In My Blood and also the performances and it's like self choreographed so I feel like I can express my self more. The girls are set to perform at the Rife Center this Saturday starting at 7 30 and Sunday starting at 2 p.m. They say they hope audiences understand how much work goes into their performance. I think something that the audience shouldn't know is how hard it is like we try to make it seem like as easy as we can you know we don't want them to know we're dying back there before we come on. Burning Grand Rapids with this week's In Focus. Shawmore, Lakeland News.