1. For the most part, I already knew everything in my research so far, but I was reminded about how you have to keep going over things in choreography depending on the dancers. Teaching the dance team "Thriller" was a bit of a reminder for me of how there will always be people at different dance levels, ranging from memory to actually being able to do the moves to the according counts. I hadn't taught anything to anyone since the end of the last school year and I got used to my old dance girls getting the choreography and counts a lot faster and a lot easier. Getting new girls this year/ semester was a reminder of how a choreographer has to keep reviewing things and executing things in different ways, due to the fact that things click differently in people's heads in different ways.
3. The source that helped me with this was my first interview with my old dance teacher, Rae-Ann Stinson. She said that one of the hardest parts of being a choreographer is having to go back and remind the dancers of things in the routine so that they get it right, in a way that they'll understand. For example, this video documented the very last rehearsal before the actual performance and there were still things that needed to be fixed. I actually danced out the correct ways of the parts that needed to be done so that the dancers understood. Dance is a very visual form of art, and you can't always verbalize what you're talking about when it comes to choreography.
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