Mainstage’s Center for the Arts Cinderella performance was phenomenal! My lens was from that of a dancer. I have always admired dancers—their gracefulness, the fluidity of their movements and the effortless way they handle intricate choreography. So much so, that in college, (which seems like many moons ago) I participated in several semesters of African Drum and Dance. I recently started dancing again, this time as a backup dancer to a local artist. The choreography is typically to Afrobeats, a music genre that blends West African musical styles with jazz, soul, funk and in more contemporary tracks, electronic music. Many people today would describe Afrobeat as a mix of African music with Western-pop. To learn choreography for a typical 3-minute song has required numerous hours of practice per week. So, when I watched Mainstage’s Cinderella performance, I was truly in awe over the vocals and particularly the dance chor...
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