Thursday, March 29, 2012

Research check 14

Dance Teaching

L: -Wide range of shapes and dynamics, including a lot of smooth relationship with the floor.
I: mot all contemporary dance movements are smooth and flows. There are many that are choppy, sharp, and difficult. But the main stereotype of contemporary is that it's flowy and graceful.

Friday, March 23, 2012

Room Creativity

1. I plan on turning my 2-hour room into somewhat of a stage with black and red curtains and putting a ballet bar somewhere.

2. For my first answer, which is repetition, I'm thinking about teaching one 8-count of some kind of dancing. For my second answer, I might have the audience/class fill out a physical body sheet.

Friday, March 16, 2012

Research check 13

#48c
The more dance classes and training you have undertaken, the more you would have harnessed your ability to remember dance routines.
-you also get used to the way your dance teachers and choreographers go about teaching movement. "practice makes perfect"

When it comes to professional dance routines you will be expected to know your stuff- note very choreographer will explain things which they expect you to know. Many times they will just teach the choreography.
-everything becomes different at a professional level. At this point in your dance life, you SHOULD be well rounded in every form of dance. It's also at this point that the choreographer will not care whether you get the choreographer behind. "dog eat dog". Generally, it's not the choreographer's job to teach you HOW to dance.

Whereas Ina dance class you may have an hour or so tolerant routine and get it right, at a professional level you may only have half an hour... Sometimes even less.
-it's usually only like this for auditions. The short amount of time is usually what happens to get things going faster because of the many people that may audition.

If you know we the choreographer is, you may find it helpful to watch some of their choreographer or videos beforehand so you can become familiar with thirsty leaned have some visuals idea of how they like their work to look.
- it's a good idea to get a sense of what you're going to be working with, what to expect, and what to look out for. It can also be the determining factor in auditioning or not.

as a professional dancer it's very important for you to be able to adapt to whatever the choreographer wants.
- it's a hard thing to do but professional dancers should be able to do it no problem because of the extensive training they've had throughout the years to teach them how to mimic the choreographer 100%.

Fnd out what the choreographer wans and give it to the to Mae their on easier!
- like I said before, at this level, it's not the choreographer's job to teach you how to dance. They should just teach you how to do lithe movement they created and BOOM it's over. It would also be great to get compliments from the choreographer to getting their good graces. If you're remembered, you get work.

Because all choreographers will have their own rules and ways of styling things, you will need to be flexible.
- this is a MUST MUST MUST for professional dancers xbecause if you're Flexible with different styles of dance,you will be noticed and hired. That is the main goal in this whole thing.

They may have different routines that look completely different in style from one another.
- for the end of the year pep rally in 2011, every single one of me hip hop,routines I choreographed we're completely different. They were all different kinds of songs, different tones, and different kind of choreography, but they were all choreographed by me.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Answer 2

EQ: What is most effective in teaching choreography to a dance course?

One of the most effective ways to teach dance choreography is to be aware of your dancers' capabilities.

Evidence:
-Service Learning
-Independent Component 1
-Past dance studio experience

Source:
Second Interview with Lindsy Donahue

The Product

I have two products. One is to start a YouTube channel and put up videos of myself dancing to my own choreography at least once a week. My other product is to teach at my old dance studio, The Dance Shop.

These would be products because I learned through my service learning that the better a dancer you are, the better a choreographer you are, ultimately becoming a better entertainer, and that's what I want to accomplish with my YouTube channel. I also learned through service learning and my first independent component how to be a better teacher. I learn from Miss Lindsy how to teach and my first independent component let me execute what I learned from her. I felt like I've already grown as a teacher, so why not try to continue applying that in an actual dance studio for national dance competitions?