If you want to be a creative dancer or a dance choreographer, you need to come up with 'new stuff'. But what is 'new stuff'?
As dancing, both for ritual and for social, has already had a history as long as the human's existence on Earth, there could hardly be anything 'new'. It seems that it is making more and more of a challenge to be innovative in the dance realm. If you find yourself running out of ideas putting up new routines, you probably need to give yourself a thorough review of how to harness your primitive agent of presentation- your body.
To be a choreographer, first thing first, you need to know the dance(s) you are going to present/create: to name the dance genre, to know its style, to learn its history so that you can tell the style, to study its musicality so you can identify the style more particularly, interesting enough, knowing the steps and figures ranks the last on the list. The point of a good piece of work is its presentation, i.e. telling the story with sound technique, and so the subject is 'telling the story', how you tell it is the organization; and although most choreographers are dancers as well, a good choreographer must not only think about how they themselves can do the work, but how their dancers can do the work.
Dancing and choreographing for Latin dancing is not as highly organized and technically demanding as for Ballet dancing, however, loose work, causal work, copycat work will not be credited, that is for sure. If you only dance and strongly focus on Latin dancing, good chance is that you are excellent in terms of skilfulness; however, you may not be a good enough choreographer. Reasons are: First of all, you may not have enough opportunities to properly choreograph, since you are so limited to your area of interest. Secondly, you don't give surprises in you routine since you restrict your dance exposure to the same things again and again and again. Thirdly, you may not fully know your body as you set boundary in how to 'dance' with your body.
Wow, that's already a long passage, let's have a small conclusion here:
- You need to know the dance genres well;
- You need to be musical;
- You need to be organized and presentable;
- You need to know your moves.
So far, kandykanedance has Dance Styles, Dance History & Development, Dance Choreography, Dance Learning Notes for you, now it is time to look into your Moves.
part 1- (you are here)quality of a choreographer
part 2- bodily actions
part 3- actions & creations
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