Skip to main content

The Choreographer

Many times we go ‘wow’ , when we watch a well choreographed dance performance either in a music video or on stage. And we often wonder: ‘how did they dance so uniquely and uniformly?’ Well, that’s the work of the choreographer. The choreographer is one who creates and arranges dances and teaches dancers to perform a dance to the delight of an audience. He decides what the moves and steps will be and the dancers perform the steps. He or she also takes the ideas and opinions of the dancers, and blends them together to make a beautiful performance. Firstly, the choreographer directs rehearsals to teach dancers how to dance. These rehearsals are often intense and time consuming if dancers are going to master the steps to be able to present them uniformly. Secondly, he studies the dancers’ unique physical abilities and make up and brings into practice different steps and moves. Thirdly, he assesses each dancer’s ability and works with them to improve on their weaknesses. He also chooses the performance and the dancers. Furthermore, he selects the music and spoken narratives suitable to accompany the dance performance. He also chooses and designs the costumes, stage design and appropriate lighting with cast and crew members. Then finally. the choreographer directs the stage dance or performance.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dynamics of Contemporary Dance

I’m passionate about a lot of things: books, the environment, and the culinary arts. Another passion I have is dancing. I love to watch well choreographed dance presentations and also love to be a part of them. I actually choreographed a dance group back in college and it was so much fun dancing on stage to trending songs then like Kirk Franklin’s “Stomp” and “Revolution”. We became so famous for our unique dance steps that we were invited to almost every Christian program on campus. I still dance especially when I hear good Christian hip hop vibes, and thanks to rap stars in the Christian community who write, rap and sing lyrics that you move your body to without guilt or condemnation. Anyway, this week we are going to be looking at contemporary dance. Now, contemporary dance is modern dance which has been a gradual departure over the centuries from the traditional and ballet dance but draws inspiration from them. This is a free style type of dance which uses body movement not bound b...
Post a Comment
Read more

DAWN

Dawn Ola-Parker is a student of dance studies at a prestigious university in Mexico. She encounters and collides with her dance instructor, Roberto Martinez and begins her training on a wrong footing. After a while however, fate brings them together in a way that she never expects or imagined. Love and passion slowly entwines them in a whirlwind of romance and before long Dawn finds herself engaged to be married to her dance instructor, Roberto. But something happens unexpectedly at the university that threatens her passion to dance and her engagement to Roberto Martinez. Will their love be able to survive the storms? And will Dawn realize that there’s more to her heart than just dancing professionally? This is an intriguing story you don’t wanna miss! You can get your copy @ https://www.xinxii.com/dawn-504332
Post a Comment
Read more

Labanotation

 1n 1928,  Laban published his kinetographie . This and subsequent expositions of his system for recording dance have made possible the collection of a literature and materials for dance. The system is logical since it is based upon fundamental laws of human motor activity . It's functional since it has been used to record dance and non-dance movement in many styles including balle , gymnastics , exercises, time motion studies in industry , movements of spastic patients to medical records and national dance styles ranging from the subtle movements of the dances of India to the improvisations in America jazz dance . The actual notation signs are abstract in design differing in shape from Feulliet symbols . In principle, however, Laban avows in his book: Principles of Dance and Movement Notation (1956), that: " Our movement and dance notation makes use of the principles on which Beauchamp and Feulliet's choreography was built up some 300 years ago. The graphic principl...
Post a Comment
Read more