I was posed with a question yesterday when complaining about having writers block (hence the lack of posts). It was: Can a choreographer get "dancers block"?
Although my only "real" (ha ha) choreography experience so far was a pseudo-lyrical dance for an inexperienced friend to use at a mock SYTYCD competition, I make stuff up all the time. I rarely ever dance it, but almost every time I hear music, some sort of idea for movement just seems to pop in to my head. It's so much easier for me to plan how bodies can move through space than it is for me to decide how to word a sentence.
But, then, there's the whole factor of burnout that does play a part in "dancer's block". And, as Mia Michaels puts it, the difference between people who want to dance and choreograph and people who were put on Earth to make dances. It seems as though the first people group sure is most likely to burnout, and even without burnout are more likely to have every piece of choreography look exactly the same. So does this count as "dancer's block"? Personally, I would say yes. I've had choreographers before that dance after dance, song after song, year after year, everything looks EXACTLY THE SAME. It could be lack of interest, lack of creativity, or just the fact that they were a bad choreographer. I may never know.
I was posed with a question yesterday when complaining about having writers block (hence the lack of posts). It was: Can a choreographer get "dancers block"?
Although my only "real" (ha ha) choreography experience so far was a pseudo-lyrical dance for an inexperienced friend to use at a mock SYTYCD competition, I make stuff up all the time. I rarely ever dance it, but almost every time I hear music, some sort of idea for movement just seems to pop in to my head. It's so much easier for me to plan how bodies can move through space than it is for me to decide how to word a sentence.
But, then, there's the whole factor of burnout that does play a part in "dancer's block". And, as Mia Michaels puts it, the difference between people who want to dance and choreograph and people who were put on Earth to make dances. It seems as though the first people group sure is most likely to burnout, and even without burnout are more likely to have every piece of choreography look exactly the same. So does this count as "dancer's block"? Personally, I would say yes. I've had choreographers before that dance after dance, song after song, year after year, everything looks EXACTLY THE SAME. It could be lack of interest, lack of creativity, or just the fact that they were a bad choreographer. I may never know.
Anyone else got any thoughts on this?
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