Thursday, February 23, 2012

Fourth Interview Questions

1. What do you do if you notice a few of your dancers haven't practiced?
2. What are ways of getting choreography across to your dancers effectively?
3. How can analogies help the dancers grasp the choreography?
4. How do you deal with beginning dancers and terminology they don't know?
5. How is teaching choreography to skilled dancers easier than teaching to beginners?
6. How would you want choreography to be taught to you?
7. How often should you repeat choreography before moving onto the next combination?
8. What are good teaching tips?
9. What's a good way to motivate or pump up your dancers before teaching?
10. How do you decide which dancer uses props if your routine calls for it?
11. What are the disadvantages to teaching choreography to a large class?
12. What are advantages to teaching choreography to a large class?
13. What are disadvantages to teaching choreography to a small class?
14. What are advantages to teaching choreography to a small class?
15. What are disadvantages to teaching choreography to beginners?
16. What are advantages to teaching choreography to beginners?
17. What are the advantages to teaching choreography to advanced dancers?
18. What are disadvantages to teaching choreography to advanced dancers?
19. How do you pick the songs to teach choreography to?
20. How do you keep your choreography appealing to your dancers?

Monday, February 13, 2012

Independent Component 2 Plan Approval

1. I plan on choreographing and teaching another routine for the end of the year pep rally. I will be working the entire dance team on this one, even as far as holding auditions.

2. I'm going to start working on this routine tomorrow (Tuesday), in elective, so my time choreographing and teaching this routine will be taken up every elective block until the end of the year pep rally. I'll be fine with my hours by the time this independent component is due.

3. My independent component study relates to my EQ because I'll be exploring, executing, and actually teaching choreography to the dance team, therefore being able to come up with actual answers towards my EQ.

Friday, February 10, 2012

Independent Component 1

Everything on my independent component is logged in a notebook. I wrote about every single time I worked on the routine, as well as the performance.

I, Ashley Lara, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work of creating and performing a hip hop routine for the February Pep Rally for Ipoly High School. 


It takes quite a bit of time to put together ideas, choreography, formations, and music. The bulk of the time is teaching choreography to other people with different time schedules, and making sure they have the routine memorized and performed on point.


It helped me answer my EQ because my EQ is revolved around effective ways to teach choreography. I have different leveled and skilled dancers on my team and I had to meet to each of those demands. Repetition is an answer I came up with, especially when working with people with no dance background.