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.
As a professional dancer it is very important for you to be able to adapt to whatever the choreographer wants.
One of the big skills at this stage is to be able to look exactly like the choreographer. Most of the time this will be what is expected of you as a dancer.
The theory being that if everyone looks like the choreographer then all of the dancers that perform a routine together should look together as a unit.
As all choreographers are different, any single choreographer may pay more attention to one thing than another. For example for one choreographer your feet will be very important, for others it will be the hands, for others it will be the overall attitude.
Find out what the choreographer wants and give it to them to make their job easier! As they teach the choreography they will tell you which parts are important and need to be performed a certain way or need extra detail.
Your ability to adapt to these details and do it the way of the choreographer will be what will make you a strong dancer in the choreographer's eyes.
If you watch the dance classes of choreographer's when they pick out select dancers, that they pick the best dancers that look like them. In fact if you watch the top dance crews you will see how in sync they are.
Adapting to a choreographer's style is definitely an important skill. And you'll need to do this with each choreographer you work or will potentially work for.
Because all choreographers will have their own rules and ways of styling things, you will need to be flexible. What works well for one choreographer may not work so well when transferred over to another choreographer's style.
In fact this is even evident in just one choreographer's work. They may have different routines that look completely different in style from one another. So you'll have to adapt to the style of the particular routine that they are teaching.