The Dance Routine Corner
Learning to dance? This site will help you with advice on learning dance routines and new choreographies.
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Common problems and topics covered when it comes to learning a dance routine, new steps and performing.
Can Choreographers Do The Routines Of Other Choreographers Too?
The answer to this is probably! Most choreographers are also very good dancers too and are probably capable of pulling off the routines of other choreographers.
Usually choreographers have a similar career route to dancers in that they will train and have a career as a dancer. But choreographers are usually successful dancers with successful careers behind them progressing into a choreography career.
Most choreographers are a little older than the average dancer, it tends to be a career they go into after they have finished their dance career (although this is not always the case these days).
If choreographers are still active dancers in the industry also, chances are they are very skilled at picking up the choreography of other choreographers.
In fact don't be surprised to see choreographers in dance classes too. Many of them still love learning new things in a dance class, and also to see which choreographers are up and coming (as many teachers in LA for example are).
If the choreographer has retired from their dancing career to focus on choreography they may still be able to do other choreographers' routines, though they may not be as technically adept as they were in their prime when they would have been practising regularly as a dancer does.
What is frowned upon is if a choreographer copies another choregrapher's routine and passes it off as their own choreography. This is definitely a no-go area and can potentially ruin their reputation and any credentials.
If you ever become a choreographer one day, definitely stay away from this and come up with your own ideas it is much better and more rewarding in the long run.
But back to normal acceptable practice, there is definitely nothing wrong with one choreographer learning another one's routines.
Sometimes by doing this they may even discover someone that they think on the same wavelength with and may even become choreography partners, e.g. Napoleon and Tabitha.
Many choreographers can still bust a move, so when they tell you what to do you can bet that they know what they're talking about and can do it themselves (either now or when they were younger).