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Competion Choreography
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I wouldn’t think that getting help with choreography is a problem. To me, creating choreography is a completely separate skill from performing. Similar to the difference in musical composition and musical performance. I used to play piano “competitively” through festivals, syllabus, etc. Classical piano is not about creating your own music, its about interpreting music and skillfully rendering it. In other forms of dance, competition pieces are commonly choreographed by people other than the performer, and in classical dance like ballet, choreography still exists from a long long time ago, still being performed and interpreted by dancers today.
Finding the total package of performer and good choreographer is tough, because good choreography is much more difficult and rare than most people think. It’t not as easy as stringing together moves and setting those moves to counts/music.
I know it’s possible to get feedback about a video from WeFly (Rebecca Star, Michelle Stanek, Tracee Kafer, Natasha Wang, and Steven Retchless). Not sure how the process exactly works, but you can find out from their website. http://www.weflypole.com/
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@Chemmie, I just adore you and I love th fact we can discuss these things and grow. With Claire, most of her combos and her floor work were my ideas and she had to learn moves and holds very quickly and she blew my freaking mind! I loved doing a piece for her because its not how I dance at all. We are working on something right now that is super exciting, for me, anyway. She’s still really new to pole and its easy to forget that when she’s sooo strong. I’d say 25% of the routine you saw had stuff that she had to learn in under a month, smooth it out and make it flow. She has a very natural grace on the pole making her a dreamto work with. She’s also very charismatic on stage. We’ve made a good team because the stuff I’m bad at she’s a beast at the stuff she’s bad at, I’m good at. She doesn’t have a big pole vocabulary yet because its been so little time on the pole but she’s quickly learning new things and learning how to put them together. She’s growing exponentially. Her concept of that piece was very challenging to work with but she pulled it off so beautifully. I get ideas for her a lot and will call her and be like “this would be a cool idea, what do you think?” Together we make it happen. My friend Kathleen steps in at the end and goes over stage stuff with her as Kat does for me as well.
To the op. I’d Facebook whomever you want to work with they might Skype. I highly recommend Phienix especially if its just tweaks you need. She’s very affordable and freaking priceless to work with.
I don’t think everyone needs a coach or trainer but I believe everyone has someone in their life that fills that role. My Kat and I are always coming up with ideas for each other and playing with them. Again it’s more like I think you should dance to this song. It could be this or that. Never here’s your moves and 8 count and that’s what chemmie is saying. Part of the awesome part of pole is that you can move in a non standard way. There is not choreography dating back a thousand years. I also agree with what’s been said about artist interpretation. I teach a lot of Choreo and everyone does it differently. Which I love. I actually teach my comp routine (portions) to my upper level girls so I can see it on different bodies and I get inspired and make changes so stores based on what I see. It’s innovation vs recreation. Chemmies just sayi h shed rather see a piece that is wholly the artist even if they worked with a coach vs a recreated winning piece that has no significance to the artist. Right?
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Exactly.
Also for someone who is looking for dance I have heard that Kelly Yvonne (did I spell that right?) Is amazing to work with.
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Kelly is amazing! I will warn she’s really busy! She coaches everyone and their sister so if you have a tough timeline make sure you tell her and have everything ready to send, song, vids, etc. if you choose her you will not be disappointed. I think Kelly is the busiest woman in pole! I adore her and highly recommend her. Michelle stanek whom I’ve not worked with does Skype too. I’ve heard incredible things about everyone at B&P.
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I do choreo, but my choreo abilities are far beyond my pole abilities. I don’t charge people I know are members of studio veena.
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