DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY

DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY

1. Music

   • What music would be suitable for this piece?
     • Connection to the music
     • Genre of song
       • Connection between style of dance and genre of music
   • What music would engage the audience? ( e.g. popular songs)
   • What do I want the audience to feel when they watch this piece?
     • Theme / Feeling
       • Relevance to a common issue
         • Is there a message behind it?
   • Is there going to be a storyline?
     • Storyline
       • Emotion

2. Genre / Style of dance

   • Contemporary
     • mixture between classical, modern and jazz styles; often incorporating many different elements of different dance styles. contemporary dance tends to combine the strong and controlled legwork of ballet with modern dance's stress on the torso, and also employs contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristic of modern dance.
   • Jazz
     • Jazz dancing is a form of dance that showcases a dancer's individual style and originality. Every jazz dancer interprets and executes moves and steps in their own way. This type of dancing is energetic and fun, consisting of unique moves, fancy footwork, big leaps and quick turns.
   • Tap
     • a dance in which the rhythm or rhythmical variation is audibly tapped out with the toe or heel by a dancer wearing shoes with special hard soles or with taps.
   • Ballet
     • a classical dance form demanding grace and precision and employing formalized steps and gestures set in intricate, flowing patterns to create expression through movement.
   • Hip Hop
     • Hip-hop dance refers to street dance styles primarily performed to hIP HOP or that have evolved as part of hip-hop culture. It includes a wide range of styles primarily breaking, locking, and popping which were created in the 1970s and made popular by dance crews in the United States.
   • Appropriate music for the style of dance
     • Music

3. Technique

4. Content

   • Originality
     • Taking copyright and plagirism into account
   • Level of difficulty
     • Tricks
     • Turns
     • Leaps
   • What would interest the audience?
     • Age of audience and experience

5. What makes a piece of choreography unsuccessful?

6. Outcome as a video

   • Vlog to show progress of the dance

7. Sources

   • Primary
     • Dance teachers
     • Surveys
   • Secondary
     • YouTube videos
     • Blog posts