How to build your dance solo
Photo: Aleksandra Savina Not that elaborate choreography is not effective. It's a lot! One learns very scrutinizing each phrase of the song, full of melodies, strings and rhythmic flourishes, and applying consistent sequences. What ends up sometimes being lost in this routine mechanical structure is ready steps are pleased to get carried away by the music. That urge to decorate the order of movements and their respective counts, it is common, especially among novice dancers, the nervousness stamp the face and the presentation becomes automatic, without any feeling and expression - except for the aforementioned.
So the first tip to get your solo a success is to choose a song that you like enough, to be identified. Then listen to it 'one thousand' times, and each mentally hum taps, and marking your breaks. Understand that dance is just a story told through a song. You belly dancer, is the narrator and depends on you convey the emotion of this reading, featuring the character, showing his adventures, dramas and joys and finishing. Given this comparison, it is clear that switches molejo face and body should not only be introduced by the dancer in the dance, it is your responsibility to bring out those highlights, that break with the basis of linear context.
That dance improvisation does not presuppose that the ballerina dance away at random. In contrast, also allows a deep dip in the structure of music, since that will require you to study and identify the composition of the dance, but without the desire to follow a completely pre-set schedule. As a story, you have a beginning, middle and end, has a climax, a moment of introspection and an element of surprise. Work with these alternatives. Make an entrance with two or three changes in the veil and do the dance, that 'boom' (marking the track) you can set that will bend over and touch the flute, will rise like a snake, and then follow the dance ... In this sense, improvisation, different choreography, allows a release, a fluidity, a superior delivery to the persons performing the movements, which are conscious, but are not bound by a prior and full planning.
Other factors that contribute to the enrichment of its soil are aware that the environment where you will make possible the use of certain accessories (if there are ceiling fans, lights very low, very close tables etc ...); surprising the public with a more elaborate step, breaking the course, working the dance in all directions (sometimes there are people up behind the dancer, who are affected with a performance full frontal plane); center stage or space in which Your dance will be performed, and interact with the public (smile, make a joke or other / cute or call someone to dance with you, always with great politeness and respect). At the end of his song, freeze for a few seconds in her final pose, and before retiring, thank the audience. If your music does not have a final impact, that is, finish lowering bit by bit, follow the melody, exit and return to the stage thanks.
That's ... Punctuating the main topics, rehearsing the details until you feel safe and prepared and confident in their work, the rest is to take advantage and enjoy those 3, 5 or 8 minutes music fly by ..!Article from Mahaila Tat IshtarTop tip: If you are looking for help to understand music notation and be able to choreograph why don't you try The Foundation Certified Course by Hossam and Serena Ramzy? Lessons starting on the 18th February. No many places available. Click Here for more info.
So the first tip to get your solo a success is to choose a song that you like enough, to be identified. Then listen to it 'one thousand' times, and each mentally hum taps, and marking your breaks. Understand that dance is just a story told through a song. You belly dancer, is the narrator and depends on you convey the emotion of this reading, featuring the character, showing his adventures, dramas and joys and finishing. Given this comparison, it is clear that switches molejo face and body should not only be introduced by the dancer in the dance, it is your responsibility to bring out those highlights, that break with the basis of linear context.
That dance improvisation does not presuppose that the ballerina dance away at random. In contrast, also allows a deep dip in the structure of music, since that will require you to study and identify the composition of the dance, but without the desire to follow a completely pre-set schedule. As a story, you have a beginning, middle and end, has a climax, a moment of introspection and an element of surprise. Work with these alternatives. Make an entrance with two or three changes in the veil and do the dance, that 'boom' (marking the track) you can set that will bend over and touch the flute, will rise like a snake, and then follow the dance ... In this sense, improvisation, different choreography, allows a release, a fluidity, a superior delivery to the persons performing the movements, which are conscious, but are not bound by a prior and full planning.
Other factors that contribute to the enrichment of its soil are aware that the environment where you will make possible the use of certain accessories (if there are ceiling fans, lights very low, very close tables etc ...); surprising the public with a more elaborate step, breaking the course, working the dance in all directions (sometimes there are people up behind the dancer, who are affected with a performance full frontal plane); center stage or space in which Your dance will be performed, and interact with the public (smile, make a joke or other / cute or call someone to dance with you, always with great politeness and respect). At the end of his song, freeze for a few seconds in her final pose, and before retiring, thank the audience. If your music does not have a final impact, that is, finish lowering bit by bit, follow the melody, exit and return to the stage thanks.
That's ... Punctuating the main topics, rehearsing the details until you feel safe and prepared and confident in their work, the rest is to take advantage and enjoy those 3, 5 or 8 minutes music fly by ..!Article from Mahaila Tat IshtarTop tip: If you are looking for help to understand music notation and be able to choreograph why don't you try The Foundation Certified Course by Hossam and Serena Ramzy? Lessons starting on the 18th February. No many places available. Click Here for more info.
