RiverDance

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“RiverDance” The weekend of Thanksgiving I traveled to Indianapolis, Indiana to spend it with my grandparents who lived there. I remember thinking when driving to Indianapolis how it was going to be the worst experience of my life. The problem was not going to spend Thanksgiving with my grandparents, but the fact that the next day on Friday 23, why were attending a family event to go see the “River dance,” at Murat Theatre. As we get closer to the time of the performance I remember thinking about all the jokes I made about the River dance and now I’m attending it. As soon as I came to the doors I saw lot of people waiting to get in. I thought to myself what is it that all these people want to see? It was just of dance of people dancing around what so exciting about that? All of us came for the same reason to see the “River dance”. I felt very strange as I walked down the lobby to the escalators. The atmosphere of the theatre was what you see at any concerts: coat-chec!
kers, all people well dressed, everyone is smiling and excited for the event. As I sat down on my seat, I started to look around, it was a big auditorium with a seats arranged so everyone will see the event no matter where you seat. The stage didn’t have any particular decorations that will catch your eye, so I flipped the playbill to get some information before the beginning of the concert. As the lights went down, from the first minute of a play I started to loosen up a little bit. It seemed for me, that the musicians were the heart of the play. They brought life and energy. Some of these musicians didn’t just have to worry about playing the music but they also had to act too. For example, one young lady who played violin came on to the stage a few times in the show, and danced and played solo, and with the rest of dancers at the same time. Music itself, which was a folk Irish that was changed a little bit to from music of the modern, was is...