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Dance goals and choreography woes
Sun, April 20, 2008 - 11:47 AMI'm stuck on choreography. I have like 300 songs, and some of them I really do like. It's kind of funny, because some of the issues with choreography that I thought I had overcome (fear of being too repetitive, trying to cram too much in) are coming back a bit, and a new issue of choreographing every single beat has arisen. In the latter, I mean I for some reason starting not feeling comfortable with having a move take like 2 beats. I don't know where that came from, because I watched an old (and bad, which is why it was promptly deleted) video of me dancing to something with drums, and I didn't even do it there.
It's funny. It's like making a sandwich. The beginning and ends are easy for me, it's just that important middle section to bridge the two together
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Sun, April 20, 2008 - 10:13 PM
Maybe make a goal to work on improvisation. The way I see it - when you learn a choreography, you learn a choreo to one song and when you want to change songs, you have to come up with a new choreography. If you learn improvisation, you never have to come up with a choreography again.
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 7:57 AM
I generally do spot choreography; I don't think I ever made up a choreography that I hadn't made minor changes to when doing said dance.
I began thinking that if I drill combos, I should be able to think that |
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Mon, April 21, 2008 - 3:07 PM
it really depends what the music is asking for: effects and drama or calm flow, which can be so beautiful. You should never forget that omis, mayas and 8ts are lovely to look at and not boring. I can't choreograph at all, the interesting, amazing surprising superstar-choreo for the stage, but on the weekend I danced to live music and found that I had some ideas (I wasn't performing, of course). I want to do that: improvise, until I find answers to what the music is asking for, and then do exactly that. Then throw in a little spice, maybe. Make a list checking on general things: have you turned in all directions? Did you bring in some funny thing to amuse your audience? A jump, a level change, a hair toss that makes them sit up straight? Are there moves you like but never do when the autopilot is switched on? something from the last workshop you liked? Just some small highlights that should fit the music.
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