The Dance Routine Corner
Learning to dance? This site will help you with advice on learning dance routines and new choreographies.
With you on your journey to becoming a great dancer.
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Common problems and topics covered when it comes to learning a dance routine, new steps and performing.
How Do Choreographers Get Their Ideas For Routines?
You may see a brilliant piece of choreography and wonder to yourself 'how did they get their ideas for that?'
The ideas for a piece can come from anywhere. It can come from the thoughts the choreographer is thinking at the time, it can come from the emotions they are feeling at the time.
It can also come from more random sources or from something you see in everyday life. For example you could see an old man and the way they move can inspire you to create a piece where there are lots of moves that look like an old man.
Inspiration can really come from anywhere and at any point.
It can hit you when you least expect it. Or you can simply put on a piece of music and the ideas just flow effortlessly to you.
It is less important where you get your inspiration from, more important that it is substantial. It needs to provide you with enough ideas to work with in your choreography.
Many ideas may not be workable, whereas some may seem crazy but actually work out really well when you try them out.
The thing is you're surrounded by movement all the time. You see movement all the time. And not only that of humans. Watching the way robots moved inspired a whole dance craze nearly everyone knows.
There are ideas all around you, it's just the ones which get you and capture your imagination. It's the ideas that make you want to explore their journeys further that are important.
You do not need to get your ideas or inspiration from the same place as the next choreographer - it should be personal to you.
Only when a choreographer has their own ideas can they really create something different. If they are merely borrowed ideas the piece will never be truly personal or sincere.
The choreographer must explore their own ideas and interests wherever these stem from in order to create pieces that they themselves are satisfied with, and in turn most likely to be pleasurable for a watching audience.