musical breakdown for choreography.
Jun. 11th, 2008 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancingleafdoes anyone have tips for breaking down music for the purposes of constructing a choreography.
if a song has lyrics - I can generally break it down into verses, chorus and instrumental segments and deconstruct the music that way. but I'm working with a song right now that has no lyrics and no real discernible repeating segments. it more or less continually repeats with a few segments thrown in here and there.
if I was doing it on my own I'd just improv the whole thing and do whatever I felt like - but that doesn't work when you are TEACHING it.
I talked to my mentor about it and she had these suggestions - she said people are either right brain or left brained in their approach to choreography.
What she does is count out the entire (4 minute in this case) song in 8 counts - this is not really working for me. I tried but I lose the count in a few different places. plus it's just awkward and weird.
She also said that there's another dancer she knows that puts the music on and dances it/video tapes it. Decides what she likes where - then constructs the choreography from that. This may work for me because I'm more improv focussed.
Since I am now tired of listening to the music and trying to count out the beats I am now going to burn yet another CD with the music on it (in segments) and attempt the improv approach to choreography.
if a song has lyrics - I can generally break it down into verses, chorus and instrumental segments and deconstruct the music that way. but I'm working with a song right now that has no lyrics and no real discernible repeating segments. it more or less continually repeats with a few segments thrown in here and there.
if I was doing it on my own I'd just improv the whole thing and do whatever I felt like - but that doesn't work when you are TEACHING it.
I talked to my mentor about it and she had these suggestions - she said people are either right brain or left brained in their approach to choreography.
What she does is count out the entire (4 minute in this case) song in 8 counts - this is not really working for me. I tried but I lose the count in a few different places. plus it's just awkward and weird.
She also said that there's another dancer she knows that puts the music on and dances it/video tapes it. Decides what she likes where - then constructs the choreography from that. This may work for me because I'm more improv focussed.
Since I am now tired of listening to the music and trying to count out the beats I am now going to burn yet another CD with the music on it (in segments) and attempt the improv approach to choreography.
