Dance Help

[Fiyero13]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 5:13pm

I have trouble memorizing choreography in musical auditions, does anybody have any tips for this

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 6:57pm

Me too! It's not the dancing itself that's the problem, but learning the combinations.

[BruceWayne5148]

Posted: 10/15/07 at 10:09pm

I find that it helps to take a lot of classes with just choreography in addition to technique classes. Especially more advanced classes than you might not normally take (not to a crazy extent where you will hurt yourself or anything). I took a lot of classes where we would just learn a lot of choreography really quickly that was really intricate and it was almost an easy break to do the choreography at college auditions compared to class.

[sweetdisaster]

Posted: 10/17/07 at 10:51am

I've always found that when you don't have a lot of time to learn a combination, that it's best to break it into pieces. Master the first two counts of 8, then add the next one, and so on until you're finished instead of trying to learn the whole thing at once.

[MaryMag]

Posted: 10/18/07 at 7:46pm

ack! i would LOVE a choreography only class!

I too struggle with picking up the choreography quick enough at auditions. i actually think ballet is great for practicing your ability to learn choreography - every exercise at the barre is at least 4 measure routine, or so - but you want to get your body used to doing jazzy/musical theater moves. However I maintain my choreography knowledge is not tested as much in jazz classes as in ballet. Most jazz classes I go to, half the class is a set warm up that does not test your learning/remembering ability at all.

[zoran912]

Posted: 10/19/07 at 4:18am

My best advice is to take class and take a lot of it. It comes with practice. I used to freak about dance auditions and now they're cake, more or less.