Professional wrestling and cartoon violence aren’t concepts that are usually associated with dance, but dancers at Iowa State have found ways to incorporate them into their annual spring performance.

Orchesis I and II, Iowa State’s resident dance troupes, will present their last performance of the year, “Focus,” in the Forker building Sunday evening.

The theme for this year’s event is “Collaboration,” a moniker Amy Martin, Orchesis adviser and lecturer in dance, says is quite appropriate.

“Our idea behind it is collaborating with choreographers and also collaborating with other arts forms,” she says. “[We are] using the idea of dance with different backgrounds with different focuses to create a performance piece that has more than only movement in it.”

Eleven different group performances will be presented during the show, each expressing a different theme and art form through dance. Each group worked with a student choreographer over the last month to cement their routine.

“We all tried to come up with a unique concept that was dance and something else,” says Megan Helmers, Orchesis I member and senior in English. “It makes it almost more of a multi-arts project.”

Martin says this combination of multiple art forms is one of the unique advantages of modern art that would not be possible in other forms of dance. “It’s a more expressive dance form,” she says. “It has a lot to do with inventing new movements and new ways to use the stage and to use human bodies to make shapes and movement across the stage.”

Although mixing different forms of art into dance is a popular trend, Martin says it is one of the first times it has been attempted at Iowa State.

“In modern dance right now, the idea of collaboration and using different art forms as inspiration for movement is a very popular idea,” she says. “Now the students here are experimenting with it, which is a wonderful thing.”

The first piece of the evening, which will be performed by Orchesis II, is titled “Listen,” and uses unique props to create sounds during the dance.

“They are doing a piece that is [created with] found sounds — objects they have found that they have made music out of,” Martin says.

Martin says other performances include “Dominate,” which incorporates martial arts with modern dance, “Rapture,” which blends music, movement and text, “Cereal Chaos,” which adds the over-the-top comedic violence of cartoons and “What’s Today’s Child?,” which was inspired by the artwork and writings of Wassily Kandinsky, considered to be the father of abstract art.

A seemingly unfitting country tap dance piece titled “Sold,” also choreographed by Helmers, will make an appearance in the show.

“It’s kind of like a fun little tap piece to country music. We all have cowboy hats and jeans,” Helmers says. “It’s more of a lighthearted piece as opposed to some of them that are more serious collaborations between art forms.”

Martin says the use of tap fits well with the concepts of diversity the show is trying to explore.

“[Helmers] decided to include it in this concert because tap itself provides rhythm and movement,” Martin says. “It’s a form of dance in itself that’s a collaboration between sound and music.”

Helmers says the finale, titled “Welcome to the Main Event,” is an odd dance combination based on the stuntwork of professional wresting and spoken word.

“We just decided to just do a spoof of wrestling,” says co-choreographer Helmers, “But [it’s] also a tribute to how interesting the stunts can be.”

Overall, Helmers says this program will be a whirlwind of movement and music, different from anything Orchesis has performed in recent years.

“I think it will appeal to more people than just a standard dance concert,” Helmers says. “There are so many different things incorporated into it.”