Choreographer Feature: Sydney Thayer

Name: Sydney Thayer

Class: Senior

Major/Minor: Management major/Dance Minor

How many years you have been dancing: This is my First year actually dancing, but I did cheerleading for 9 years and The Rome Braves Brigade for 2 years. 

What is your favorite type of dance: I like watching all styles, but Ballroom and hip hop are my favorites to dance.

Years involved in Dance Troupe: This is my first year

Music (song you're using): You Make Me Feel by Cobra Starship (feat. Sabi)

Title of piece: Playful Attractions

Cast List: Bentley Anderson, Cory Brooks, Victoria Davis, Kit Durant, Aaron Estes, Kara Hardy, Kristina Lewis, Michelle McAloon, Graydon McCrite, Benson Phinazee, Radu Rodila, Kristine Smith, Caleb Timmerman, and Dani White

 

What is your dance about? My dance is about the first time you meet that Special Someone in your life, and you experience those flirty interations. The dance is all about having fun with this person and seeing those first interactions and feelings between two people.

Why did you chose to make this piece? My inspiration for this dance was my own experience with interactions like these. I love my boyfirend very much and I look back and just smile when I think about when we were first getting to know each other and acted like this.

Anything you hope the audience gets from this dance?: I hope that when the audience watches my dance thay see the connections my dancers have with each other and can look back on their own life and remember their own flirty expericnces and smile.  

 

Have you had any experience choreographing before the choreography class? I have choreographed many routines for my cheerleading squads and a couple of dances for the Braves Brigade

 

What has been (or is) your favorite part about being involved in dance troupe? Meeting and getting to know all of the wonderful dancers. I feel like I have really made a lot of friends and can't wait to work with them next again.

What is your biggest challenge when it comes to choreographing? The biggest challenge for me was coming up with hip-hop choreography for the men in my dance. At first I felt akward trying to dance like a boy or not come up with moves a guy wouldn't do, but I eventually figured it all out and they look great!