Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Third Answer

"How can a hip hop dancer best prepare a routine for an audition?"

"Freestyle dancing can help you highlight certain moves you did that can be used for your dance routine."

-Randomly doing any moves to the beat of a song can help get your mind and creativity going.
-Freestyle dancing always helps you be original when it comes to planning your dance choreography and not look like a copy of one.
-When you make a mistake, freestyle dancing helps improvise dance steps to help you get back on track with the group.

http://news.ucsc.edu/2013/07/warburton-dance-study.html
http://www.hiphopmoves.org/freestyle.html

Due to it's improvisational nature, freestyle dancing gives you many brainstorming for ideas and helps you during the actual performance.

Monday, March 3, 2014

Fourth Interview Questions

1. Is there such thing as a perfect choreography? Why or why not?
2. What are the good things of creating a dance routine as a group rather than on your own?
3. How does taking classes help one make a dance routine on his/her own?
4. How is it that some dancers can pick a new dance routine they've never danced to so easily?
5. Do you ever feel like you added something so random to a dance routine? Please give examples.
6. What is the best way to show more energy in your dance routines?
7. Is it easier to work with a group of a lot of dancers or fewer dancers? Why do you think so?
8. Why is it that sometimes dancers can follow a dance routine easily but can't freestyle and vice versa?
9. What are some things that unexpectedly ruin a dance performance considering the routine is practiced thoroughly?
10. What are good ways to get more ideas for a choreo when you can't think of anymore?
11. What do you think is the best way to teach your choreography to dancers?
12. How do you keep your dancers interested in learning your routine?
13. When making a choreo that requires dancers to have different moves at the same time, how do you manage to teach it to a large group of dancers so that it flows well with each other? Or is it best to have the large group do the same moves the whole time? If same moves, why?
14. What do you think is the most important factor of a dance routine? Why do you think so?
15. What is the most crucial thing to have in your dance moves?
16. How do you make transitions in dance routines really smooth so that it won't look to obvious?
17. Is it okay to copy another dance routine for a performance? Why or why not?
18. How experienced are you with freestyle dancing?  Please tell of your experiences.
19. When is the best time to include a freestyle part to a dance routine?
20. Why is it that you can find many ideas when freestyling but can't seem to remember what you did in your freestyle at times?