STYLE
NEW DANCERS
FRESH DANCES
Theatrical group performances
animate big dreams for fall concert
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el Don /SANTA ANA COLLEGE • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014/eldonnews.org
MOVEMENT /
Students Laura
Moran, Brianna
Reyes, Liliana
Ramirez and
Ray Ynciertl
showcase contemporary styles
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STORY AND PHOTOS BY LIZ MONROY / el Don
ance chairperson
Heather Gillette had to
rely on inexperienced
dancers to meet the
number of students needed to
pull off nine performances in
this fall’s dance department
program Dream Big.
“Every student deserves an
opportunity. Our job is to
provided experiences,” Gillette said.
About 30 students are
involved in the production of
the show, choreographed with
the help of eight Santa Ana
College professors.
For the showcase all numbers will be performed in
groups, with no solo numbers.
One piece by professor Allison Hart, titled Carbon and
Water, melds unconventional
dance moves while peppering
the performances with heavy
symbolism. Another sequence
depicts a moth venturing too
close to the looming lights of a
disco ball.
“It’s kind of a journey for
each individual person look-
ing for love or something to
be attracted to, and not really
finding it,” Hart said.
The dance breaks away from
normal circular movements to
strange and unexpected ones
that express different stories.
“I did a lot of this dance
based on improvisation that
they actually created, so a lot
of these dances are from them,
not me teaching them steps,”
Hart said.
Another number stands
apart from all the others. It
starts with dancers talking to
the audience about having
dreams. The performers move
back and forth, at one point
undressing while dancing.
“It’s a different kind of style
which brings out the best in
all of us,” freshman Jocelyn
Lopez said.
Dream Big premieres at
SAC’s Phillips Hall Theatre on
Thursday. Performances run
through Saturday, at 7:30 p.m.,
with a matinée Friday at 2:30
p.m. Tickets will be sold at
the door.
el Don /SANTA ANA COLLEGE • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014/eldonnews.org
STYLE
MIX UP IN THE MAINSTREAM
The fusion music genre grew out of the hardcore scene and hit the masses in the late 1990s, early 2000s with bands like
The Offspring, Blink-182 and New Found Glory dominating Billboard record sales. Then the genre began to change.
BY IZABELLA SANTANA / el Don
Pop-punk influenced the late 1990s generation to go against the social norm, but the
revival era changed its music from raw and
rebellious to internal emotional angst.
Pop-punk was an outgrowth of the hardcore scene and went mainstream in the late
1990s, and early 2000s with The Offspring
and New Found Glory, dominating CD sales.
Taking elements from punk, bands used
angsty lyrics but with an upbeat sound and
catchy choruses.
But the style has gradually lost its way.
Songs like I’m Just a Kid by Simple Plan and
All The Small Things from Blink-182 focused
on reaching out to those not accepted by the
majority. The revival era phase of pop-punk
isn’t about rebellious, misunderstood teenagers. It’s about prepubescent kids who wear
RHYTHM / Travis Barker is one of the most recognizable characters of the Pop-Punk age, working with at least 13
Man Overboard shirts and eat pizza, said
associated acts including Blink-182, Box Car Racer and the Transplants. / Brett Flashnick / Tribune New Service
Jacob Darling, previous bandmate of Lighthouses, a Nebraska-based hardcore band.
music to money.
Pop-punk was influenced by the punk rock
As the genre grew, it began to fit the capital“I thi