Home Production
Retrograde Dance Company is located here at Windsor High School. This company allows me and others to teach, choreograph, and learn from our peers and other amazing choreographers every day. Our first project in this company was to create a dance show and we made that dream come true last year with our first ever dance show called Home, this show was choreographed by the company members. Retrograde allows the company members to continue to grow every day as dancers, students and as humans. As we continue to grow this year this program gave us the opportunity to visit and perform at thirteen different middle and elementary schools around Sonoma County in an anti bullying community outreach tour where we got to perform talk to and teach kids to dance. |
The Home Production was a very special piece that this company created, it was mostly based around the Sonoma county fires and how so many people lost their homes and how this community came together to help others. We decided as a company that Home was a perfect title for this production because we wanted to show the community what home means to us and how for us home is not a house or a place, Home is who and what you love and we wanted to show that through dance and through art. This was Retrogrades first ever dance show and it was such an amazing experience having the opportunity to collaborate and work with so many creative minds coming up with different choreography to music and sounds having to teach it to everyone while staging it was such an amazing experience. Putting on this show was very difficult for us because of how emotional it was, all of the choreographers put in choreography and music that they really connect to emotionally that you could feel the emotion through the dancers. This show also made the company dancers realize that home for us also means dance, we realized that with ought dance we wouldn't feel at home we wouldn't feel relaxed and protected dance is what keeps us going and that's something we will never forget. Home brought the audience to tears and it is something this company will cherish for ever it is what started this company, it was our first show, our first home.