Dance 10 featured 80 dancers who performed at the Disney Theater in the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts (455 S. Magnolia Avenue Orlando FL.) The performance was one of many during the week long UCF Celebrates the Arts. In the spring of 2015, the university launched this
festival to celebrate UCF’s visual and performing arts through plays, exhibitions, and musical performances.
For its second year, the School of Performing Arts and the School of Visual Arts and Design, in
collaboration with community and university partners, has prepared a showcase of UCF’s
vibrant disciplines to delight and educate audiences. The festival included over 30 performances by Theatre students and Music students, as well as gallery and interactive exhibitions by student visual artists. The showcase brought to Central Florida a celebration of the talent, creativity, and dedication of the school’s student artists.
The Disney Theater was packed for Dance 10. I had to find a spot in the nose bleed seats. Many of the people in the audience around me seemed like they might be dancers themselves. With the low light, I painted the scene with just the three primary colors, red yellow and blue. It was a good lesson in leaving out local colors like the colors of a dress or the tint of a blouse, and instead just focusing on large washes to cover the page quickly. Photography and video wasn’t allowed but no one mentioned that art could not be created at a festival of the arts.