Why the choice of music is so important

Now you don't have to dance to music. there are silent dances too, but that all involves the tone and appeal you want your dance to have. Having music or not having music is the choice you make in order to best represent your dance. The music set the tone and feel a performance or dance should have. What must consider what emotion you want the audience to feel or express when watching your dance. 

The choreographer is like the writer. The dancers the words and the music is the tone. The feel the writer, choreographer, has toward the subject, the dance or performance. In order to fully communicate what is being expressed through the dance, the music aids in this,, to get your point across. whether you want a slow and emotional dance, or a fast up beat dance. You communicate a lot through the moves and music being played.

The speed of the music and how fast the different moves in the dance are affect the performance in many ways. You can pack a lot in to a one minute or thirty second dance if the moves and speed of the dance are fast paced. A lot of times especially in a competition setting the speed of a dance has a lot to do with the difficulty of the dance. The faster it is the more difficult it is and that aids in your score for difficulty. Pom songs and dances tend to be very fast and up beat. With hard hitting moves and an intense pace, a lot of the intensity and fast pace are expressed with the music. When performing at a competition part of your score is based on your energy. With up beat music it helps keep up the energy in a dance.  You see a lot of slower songs and more creative and artsy choreography in jazz or lyrical dances. You see a lot more emotion and different kinds of emotion more in these dances, especially lyrical dances. These dances tend to express a story and try and make the audience feel a certain way. 

Music can be used to express a lot in a dance. It sets the tone and speed of a dance. Making the audience feel a certain way. The choreography plus the music impact the audience in a way that can't be done in it's own. They aid and complement each other in a combination that only fits and plays out for the particular dance. Music does a lot and that's why it's so important to pick out the best for your dance or performance and consider all the important aspects music can aid in.

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