SANKOFA! and Wonderful Dancers

So on Friday night, some of my friends and I went to our school's annual celebration of Black History Month, a variety-show type performance called Sankofa. The show is named after a mythical bird that flies forward while looking back. There was some really great original poetry and some singing, but I thought the highlight of the show was the dancing. There's one student in particular, the choreographer of most of the dance numbers, who stood out from the rest.
Kelsey and I had a chat about how amazing a dancer Fridien Nana, a senior at Blair, is.
Here's a screen shot of our conversation:

He did indeed put in the extra effort. It's very hard to describe to someone how expressive Fridien is when it comes to dance.He's very graceful, but the way he presents himself to the audience adds so much to his performance. As Kelsey said, so many dancers are concentrating too much on the actual dance while performing that their face is just rather blank and boring.
Fridien is the complete opposite when it comes to his facial expressions. He's so passionate about his dancing that it shows in his face, and as he moves in different ways, his face changes as well.
I think even if you watch the most professional ballet or modern dancers perform, you'll see that even they don't put a lot of emotion or expression in their dancing, which is why it's just so stunning to watch someone perform with such a huge amount of passion and energy.