While many BYU students are buried in textbooks and waiting in long testing center lines at the end of the semester, some students’ final projects look a little different.
The main inspiration behind senior capstone choreographer Sylvie Randall’s capstone project is light.
“I had this vision of one dancer on stage acting as a crystal or an object that light could move through, and then having other dancers on the floor kind of fanned out behind them, acting as the refraction of light,” Randall said.
Randall’s capstone piece is titled "Reveal, Refract, Reflect."
“I had the theme of light to kind of guide me to different themes and ideas in the dance,” Randall said.
The capstone pieces are 5 to 10 minutes long. A variety of genres are in the showcase.
“The contrast between dark and light, whether that's visual or the feelings that we have and emotions that we feel, is amazing," Kailene Talbot, a dancer in Randall’s piece, said. "I love that she compiled all of that into movement."
Randall said her education at BYU helped her find her personal movement and style, and gave her the knowledge and experience to create her capstone project.
“It's really awesome to get to learn little bits and pieces of what she's learning and how she's growing and really get to soak that in,” Emma Seegmiller, a dancer in "Reveal, Refract, Reflect," said.
Randall said it was really fun to collaborate with her dancers and other art disciplines like lighting, costume and music people.
“It's really cool to see a piece of work that could not have been created just on my own, but with all of these incredible artists,” Randall said.
The week leading up to the show, Randall and her dancers spent hours setting lighting for the dance, setting spacing on the stage and rehearsing with costumes.
After months of hard work, these seniors were ready to take their final bow on a BYU stage.