‘Intertwine’ showcases eccentric dances, vogue design and style

“Intertwine,” the manner-show, dance recital and charity auction orchestrated in collaboration by [email protected] and Fusion Dance Organization, introduced a lively general performance to Alumnae Corridor this earlier Sunday evening. The occasion was “the most distinctive thing that [email protected], or Fusion or Alumnae Hall has ever finished,” according to [email protected] Style Head Seabass Immonen ’23. 

On the night time of Dec. 5, Alumnae Corridor boomed with a blend of EDM and orchestral audio as customers of Fusion sashayed across the ground in their [email protected] costumes. A person dancer donned a purple bodysuit with Lady-Gaga-esque sparkly shoulder pads. An additional wore a billowy white tulle skirt with black bows sewn all about it. A 3rd done with a green woolen beanie and a pink tulle veil. 

As 22 dancers in 22 uniquely built clothes whirled all over the flooring, audience members bounced together to the rhythm of the songs. What Immonen known as “colosseum-style” seating permitted for an personal viewing experience. The viewers and performers shared the place, with seating organized in a circle about the dance ground. 

At the end of the 15-minute efficiency, the dancers lined up for a closing catwalk. As dancers walked through the centre of the circle, viewers associates have been capable to get a nearer glance at the garments that teams of two to four [email protected] scholar designers had established.

Then, every Fusion dancer reunited with their [email protected] design staff for a silent auction wherever viewers members would have an prospect to bid on their favorite pieces. Proceeds from the pieces were being break up evenly between the Job Lets Mutual Support Fund and the [email protected] Style Team’s Spring Collection. Undertaking LETS  (Let us End the Stigma) functions to deliver aid and community-creating for men and women struggling “from mental ailment, trauma, Incapacity and/or neurodivergence,” in accordance to their website. Donations for Challenge Lets were being also collected at the entrance of the effectiveness.

“Intertwine” resulted from a accurate collaboration amongst [email protected] and Fusion. At the get started of the semester, when Immonen experienced the idea to collaborate with a dance troupe, Sydney Taub ’22 — who is equally a Fusion member and [email protected] Vice President and Head of Variety, Equity and Inclusion — connected him with Fusion. 

In accordance to both equally Taub and Immonen, the procedure of creating the exhibit involved a great offer of collaboration involving dancers, choreographers and designers. The designers who volunteered for the task attended several of Fusion’s rehearsals and consulted with their assigned dancer about what they needed their outfits to glimpse like. The [email protected] heads then picked a selection of tunes that would make the viewers come to feel like they have been at a manner clearly show. 

“The designers selected the audio for the piece, which is interesting mainly because ordinarily the choreographers would pick the audio,” Taub claimed. “Instead of the songs informing our movement … the garments are what is striving to notify our actions, for the reason that each dance is a special piece.” 

“Intertwine” was only the second time that dancers done in their [email protected] clothes — the to start with getting their gown rehearsal before in the week. This, in addition to the improvisational mother nature of the overall performance, authorized for their movements to be “very serious in its place of incredibly staged,” Taub said. 

Audience associates shared this sentiment. Jo Kavishe ’25 mentioned that “it felt additional like a cohesive show” than other [email protected] situations or Brown dance performances.

The “combination of freestyle and choreography” allowed the general performance to “showcase (each and every garment) by way of improvisation, but there are also moments exactly where we all occur together and it is cohesive,” Taub claimed. “We get to see how various clothes perform on diverse dancer’s bodies each with their movement design and style and the way that the garment is composed.”