Kent Dance Ensemble at the Roe Green Center Opening

The Kent Dance Ensemble performed a piece of choreography at the Roe Green Center Grand Opening on Saturday, November 6, 2010. The piece, danced to "There’s No Business Like Show Business,” was fun and entertaining, but the preparation process was difficult. When a dancer steps onstage, the dancer understands that things may happen that are out of his or her control, but we, as professionals, learn to deal with the unexpected. For the Roe Green Center Grand Opening, KDE would be dancing in the lobby—the lobby that was expected to be filled with 300 guests. During rehearsals, we could not fill the lobby and practice dancing around the guests. We had to plan the best we could while understanding that the actual performance would be nothing like our rehearsals. Fortunately, the guests at the Grand Opening were gracious and allowed us to dance around them. The experience was like no other. The fourth wall did not exist in this performance; instead, the audience and the performers shared a very intimate space. Dancing in the new lobby and being part of this exciting time in the school’s history is an honor.

--Jessica Kinsey (Dance Performance Major)