Deciding on a choreographer

When deciding on a choreographer its a lot of stress. This coming year I'm going to be a senior on the dance team. With that me and the other senior will be the captains. We decide on everything from what we wear, to what music we want, and what choreographer we want. This past year we had the same person choreograph our pom and our jazz routines. We both go to the same studio, my and my senior teammate, and we wanted to try something new. So we decided on a different person, one from out studio to choreograph our jazz routine. Our coach was kind of unsure at first, but I think she's coming around to it, we've ensured her that this choreographer knows what they're doing. Its very stressful picking out a choreographer because you have to trust them and put all your faith into them that they will make up a wonderful routine.

Choreographers think of dance's and routines in different parts. They look at it as a whole and decide what they want to do and then break it up into a whole bunch of little tiny pieces of one whole dance. piece by piece. I honestly don't know how they come up with all the different ideas they come up with, but dance and especially choreographing is definitely an art on it's own. Choreographers have to be very open and willing to change and go with the flow as the ideas in their brains do not always come out in reality as planned.

The ability of the dance has a lot to do with  the ability of the dancers. That's why there's different levels and try outs for dance's and dance teams, because the more and closer the ability of the dancers are the more in synch and flexibility you have with the dance and certain moves you do.  You wouldn't put a bad dancer and a good dancer in the same dance routine, the bad dancer would just end up bringing the whole routine down and even at competitions and stuff, you get judged on team skills, how many people can do a certain skill, as well.

Choreographers have to think of everything. Between formations, angles, skills, arm placements, often times music, and tempo. They have a lot to think about. They somehow manage it all and address everything eventually in someway. In the end though the routines come out to be wonderful pieces of work that look very astounding and creative.