Tuesday 22nd September 2015 - Gym Mambo

How to choreograph dance

1. Choose a stimuli - This means that you have a subject/theme that you are focusing the dance on.
2. Research - This is important so that you have key things that you can include in your dance and you are able to focus on choreographing things that are relevant to the subject or theme you are focusing on.
3. Improvise and experiment - By doing this you are able to come up with different movements and phrases that you can use in your final piece. 
4. Select and refine - This allows you to chose the things that you like from improvising and refine them so that you can put them into your choreography.
5. Use different choreographic devices - Using different choreographic devices such as retrograde, instrumentation, dynamic variation and levels to develop movements can allow you to choreograph a dance piece.
6. Ensure there is a climax - A climax is the build up and the highlight of a dance and allows it to have a clear structure.
7. Ensure there is a clear structure - This is important because the dance needs to have different sections to allow it to be interesting rather than be the same dynamics and levels all the way through.

Gym Mambo

We got into partners and began to learn this dance scene, we had to run on and begin with a motif that moved around each other. We also had to learn other dance moves that would be typical of that style and time, this is important so that this reflects on the rest of the musical and fits in with it. My partner is Phoebe and therefore we found some of the movements hard, especially when doing things like lifts, as i am the male character and Phoebe is the female so we couldn't do this as she is taller than me and i am not strong enough. 

There were some movements that we found easier to pick up such as turns as we were looking at how it was being demonstrated carefully and therefore we could do it. However even though we did this we found some of the timing hard as it is quite fast, this meant that we had to speed up the movements that we had just learnt.