In the Business

So today I have been working on a new project. My professional practice covers many different aspects, but today was ony of my favourites; choreography. Today, I worked as the choreographer for a film.

It was great meeting the crew and cast and getting stuck into what I had prepared. After a quick warm up, we got into the routine. It is hard bringing work to a team when you haven't met them and don't know their abilities let alone what will look good on them choreographically, as I wasn't involved in the audition process.

It was great using my latest piece of equipment; my video recorder, which I used to record the choreography which I could then refer back to during the rehearsal. This meant if I had any major mind-blocks or forgot anything (which if you know me at all- I forget everything) I was quickly reminded. It was very useful. I also recorded them at the end, so I can make any adjustments tomorrow.

So the dancers were not the ability I expected, but more or less what I am used to teaching-wise with quite a mixture of ability. The part I found most challenging was being given the track to work to. In any other circumstance I can choose the music myself and I have particular types of music/dynamics that I am inspired by and am drawn to. I managed to finish it after two days, mainly working whilst sitting on a train, which meant when I came to try it out some parts didn't work as well, which I could then alter. However, when I teach choreography I am usually learning it myself too as I haven't really danced it myself yet.

It was a massive experience today, and I loved it!!! The production team loved my work which was encouraging. I did work the dancers hard, which hopefully they are used to being professionals.

It is also interesting working with adults rather than students as they have larger personalities and bigger characters, which can challenge and question ideas or concept, whereas students tend to just accept what they are given. They still got on with it though and eventually started to take shape. I was hoping to work at a faster pace than usual, but with the mixed ability and late comers it wasn't really possible. I did have some very hard workers, determined to pick it up and took their break (and mine) to go over sections. A long day, but a great experience. Tomorrow the filming begins.

Changing Ways

It is really quite astonishing to see how much my research project has already influenced my professional practice. I have seemingly picked up these tried and tested ways to use teaching and choreography skills and applied them to my work.

I've noticed how I am now demonstrating what I want rather than constantly breaking it down. This helps the students and children to see what the choreography is supposed to look like. Also I am using filming to help improve my work, in terms of creating and remembering a dance as occasionally I have a lot to remember. Writing it down takes time, filming seems far more efficient. The senior girls have been filmed so they may watch themselves and see where they are not together in time. I have also appeared more confident with creating movements with the dancers if necessary, rather than beforehand. For example, I was teaching in another school today, the class got further than I had expected with a piece of jazz choreography for a show. So I used my initiative and continued the dance and noticed what looked good. Before, I was not very confident with this skill as I felt under pressure, but today we achieved quite a lot and the school Principal turned up and really loved the dance so far, so much that she would like to use it in a public show coming up! Good news!

Learning Diary Four Wednesday 21st April

An extremely useful campus session yesterday. Being able to discuss freely with your peers and tutors really helped me understand the areas I was stuck on. I would like to thank Sophie Gilbert for explaining some of the proposal points to me and I would like to also thank Peter for clarifying those points as well as clearly explaining my idea in another light.

I keep seeing on the advisor blogs and campus session slide shows about "not being too vague" with your idea. No one wants you to save the world with your research as you are likely to take a lifetime trying to. I always seem to think "yes that's so obvious, I'm not with my project; I'm being reasonable" but really I wasn't. I now know how I can specify my research even further thanks to Peter.

I am looking at "the best methods of teaching my choreography to female street-jazz students aged 14 to 20", which has been narrowed down from "best methods of teaching choreography". What I hadn't considered and even since sending in my proposal draft, was what determines these "best methods"?

How do you measure this?

What specifically do I want to look at?

So since this light bulb realisation I have decided on "accuracy". The accuracy of my dancers performing a choreography will be measured and experimented with. I will determine an average first and see if this is improved by changing my teaching methods. Looking back at my previous notes, accuracy was one area I wanted to look into.

I am quite excited about starting this experiment.

The methods will be developed from the survey I carry out on professional dancers, and from their experience try to create some new and varied ways of teaching a choreography to the group.

Lots will need to be done in terms of ethics for filming these classes during the experiment, but I'm looking forward to preparing it over the Summer.

Monkey Time! Survey Time!

If you would be so kind as to complete the entirety of my survey pilot which has been created for PROFESSIONAL DANCERS on the subject of learning choreography. Thank you very much your time and effort is appreciated especially as lots of us are creating them right now!

Click here to take survey

Any extra feedback on the survey would also be appreciated, as it no doubt will have flaws. It took three sittings to get it to this stage, as I had to return to what I actually wanted to find out and delete the pointless questions I had entered.

Anyway, thank you x

More Rehearsal Pictures: Alice In Wonderland

A Document of Rehearsals For My First Ballet Choreography

Alice In Wonderland

Only photos of the senior group have been taken due to obtaining permission.

These photos are the "dream scene" which is part of the street ballet section towards the end of act 2. The music is Sweet Dreams by Eurhythmics.

Another Project On The Go: Alice In Wonderland Ballet

The beginning of the dream scene, where Alice has "had enough"
The end section of Alice in Wonderland where Alice is ending her adventure.

I am currently choreographing my first ever ballet for YEM Theatre School with around 40 children. You may remember my Alice in Wonderland posts from a while back, when I was in the research of ideas and themes and characters. Rehearsals are now well under way but still have a long way to go.

The music was my first starting point. So, iTunes was an absolute must to download music, but also Spotify to test it out and listen to it first. Of course being me, I didn't just look for classical music, I searched through a few themes and ideas to collect my final play list. I have incorporated tracks from Madonna, De Bussy, Hartly and Eurythmics so as you can tell; quite a diverse range. I integrated tracks to create my story line and cut the music accordingly. I now have a two act ballet of four minutes per act. From past shows ballet has always been the slow down for a fast paced show, but not this year I hope. Especially since this is the first ballet to include "street ballet"!

I took some photos of rehearsals in action (with permission) just to document the work taking place. I am working with five different classes. Each group meanders around the choreography I just hope it will work once all dancers are put together. Not only have I got the five ballet classes, but also three jazz groups to build up numbers (as we lost some students after the last unethical teacher).

Learning Diary Three 14/3/10

Monday 14th March 2010

So, I was thinking more about my topic and thought I was in on an idea of processes of teaching dance/choreography. I spoke to the Principal of one of the schools I teach at and she said she thought I had a very good method of teaching my dances. As complimentary as this was, it wasn't constructive. Yet, it made me doubt my idea as I wanted it to be useful. After reading a blog where they had asked "outsider" opinions, i.e. family members what they thought. I gave this a try as it would give a different and objective view of the situation.

One idea put across to me was to look at forms of communication in terms of teaching. They also said my first idea was fine and that no one's perfect; there are always areas in which one can improve. I agreed with this and since no one has ever taught me to choreograph and I've never thoroughly researched it; there is bound to be much more I can improve on in the area. I argued it had to be of use and beneficial to someone or something.

I spoke to another impartial family member, who suggested collecting different styles of choreography from different countries and try to replicate their way of teaching dance. Obviously this would require a budget if I were to research this in the flesh.

After all this, again I felt somewhat overwhelmed by all the different directions I could take. So I took a step back and made some points clear of what I wanted to take from this research.

1. something that interests and excites me.

2. something to benefit my career

Answers

1. I love choreographing but I need this to be education related to go on to a PGCE

Teaching

-inspiration

-communication

-accuracy

-performance

-tools

-efficiency

-processes

-choreography

-styles

-techniques

Out of these the ones that interest me are performance, styles, accuracy and efficiency

To find the best methods for teaching and teaching choreography I could look at

-talking to and researching different choreographers

-finding how students think they learn best

-finding out how professionals learn a routine best

-their opinions

-trying different techniques and methods on classes I teach

It would benefit

-myself as a choreographer/teacher

-the success rate of students I teach

-the school if the students succeed/improve

I am looking forward to exploring some of these ideas further and narrowing it down to just a couple to concentrate on.

The 100 Words (ish) Topic Idea, Comments Please!

I know that I enjoy and feel passionately about CHOREOGRAPHY and TEACHING DANCE, so this is problem number one solved of not getting bored during this project. I also know that I want this degree to continue with a PGCE later on in my career, therefore my topic should be education related.

If I were to do a project on "the most effective methods of teaching a class a choreography/dance routine" then this could potentially benefit myself as a teacher/choreographer, the classes I teach, the schools I teach for and also other teacher/choreographers. (Note; this title will need redrafting so it is accurate to what I research)

I would use an age group that I regularly teach, though this will bring ethical and parental permission issues. I teach students over 16, but not as many.

There is already lots of information about how to teach dance, but not specific to choreographers, which is where my research might strike.

• I could look at successful past/present choreographers and find out details of how they worked to achieve results.

• I could take surveys/interviews of dancers on how they believe they learn best with choreography.

• I could experiment with different processes and observe which works best.

• I could observe other teachers and how they work with their classes.

• I could interview choreographers and teachers.

So many options! Too many? Useful? Pointless? Does this interest anyone else or just me? Comments if you would please.....

Learning Diary Two 3/3/10

My initial mind-mapped thoughts

The 3rd March 2010

I've been deliberating what my project might be since the campus session last month. I started with two words in my head, which have been in my head since the start of September. These two words are areas which I currently work part-time in, but eventually would like to pursue towards the end of my career. Reflecting on my blog, I would say it's quite clear that I have an interest in teaching and choreographing.

In my opinion I don't think you can have one without the other in this industry. If you choreograph you're going to have to teach the choreography to someone, even if you're teaching yourself. Furthermore, teaching jobs tend to require a "dance for this show", or "something to show the parents". This means consequently choreography is a common denominator even if you didn't want it to be. But I do! I love it, and I have so many projects going on right now for different shows, competitions in different styles of dance and theatre and yet I still can't wait until I finish these and am able to begin some more. So in conclusion, my project will hopefully be about these fields.

Luckily, I have access to students, children, schools in which to work with and conduct research on. I have created a mind map around these two ideas and thus formulated numerous titles/hypotheses. After being left with around ten different titles, I narrowed them down by considering the literature and information out there to help me, plus if an idea already began to become boring I swiftly discarded it. I was subsequently left with an idea around short term memory in association with "picking up" choreography (note the blog previous to this!) and methods or processes in which to teach choreography.

Now, I hope tomorrow will bring light on these two proposals to be either utterly ridiculous in which case I shall have to rethink, or for them to be acceptable and need more insight.....we shall find out.

Panicking As Usual

This, I think, happens every time we start a new module, but it's all so overwhelming and there's so much to do and think about, that naturally I just panic. I think I just need to take each day at a time and do the best I can, as that's all you can do!

After the Ballet Technique Course I am now on board for the beginning preparations for The YEM's first ever Easter School run by me..... so timetables, studio bookings, lesson material, age requirements and posters are being worked out and created. I have also been hired to work for another Easter school the week before. Much work to be done, but this is all good experience. I have worked for this other school a few times on holiday courses, it's mine I'm fretting about. Time is the issue.

Money is another big factor, having none helps no one, so I am working as much as I can right now; taking on more shifts and covering 5 different dance school classes next week alone. Sacrifices will have to be made. Two of my schools have shows coming up and the pressure is piling on, especially as for one school it will be the first set being put forward by me from my own musical theatre class and the first musical theatre set they've ever had in their shows, so I'm sure they will be expecting something pretty spectacular.

I's working hard for my diploma exam coming up in July in musical theatre, which is mainly a hobby I've had since I started all this madness, but just two more exams until I complete the whole series, and will then have a fellowship. I am beginning to work towards my next keyboard grade exam too. Lovely.

After signing with a new agent, the dust has settled on that change in my career and I'd quite like a job now, so auditions please? It's nice to know you have someone else routing for your team.

Plus the cabaret group and rock choir I'm in, are performing at a wedding in two months time. So rehearsals are taking place for that. The principal at YEM would like me to put forward one of my choreographies in a Spanish competition. Plus I'm about to start rehearsals for a band.

I'd like some more to do please, because I'm clearly not busy enough.

The Challenges of Choreography

You may have seen my gathered images for Alice in Wonderland, well I am pleased to say that the choreography is well under way. As this is first BALLET choreography I have done, I accepted early on it wouldn't be easy.

There's been a lot of problems within the ballet end of the school due to the teacher before me stealing students and leaving me; the new teacher with next to none - good luck creating a work-of-art ballet Lucy!

Never the less, I overcame that problem by borrowing other students from the school to bulk it up a bit (though the students don't know this yet!) The principals have agreed due to the circumstances and I am allowed to do so.

However this has somehow started something. School's tend to thrive with little ones learning music and dance, and occasionally stream into a few less in each class as the students get older. So the principals want the youngest (non-ballet) school members which are between the ages of 1 and 3 to be in much more.

Oh let's ask Lucy to put them in the ballet!!!.........

I'll keep you posted!

For One Night Only!!

For One Night Only

The YEM Theatre School

proudly presents

The 2009 Family Floor Show

with songs from the musicals

Featuring YEM Senior's latest street jazz; “Evacuate the Dancefloor”

7pm 22nd November

Ancells Farm Studios

Tickets are only £3.00!

Ticket money raised will go towards new microphones for The YEM Rock Choir

All money raised in the raffle will be donated to South Wood Nursery School

The floorshow is a biennial event showcasing the latest musical theatre works of the senior end of the school. The show takes place to give the students experience through performing a song of their choice that they've been working on for the last term. Some students will have recently taken musical theatre exams with the London College of Music or are currently working towards them. In either case, the show is a great learning experience for all students and one where every student needs all the support and encouragement you can give! So please spare your Sunday evening to support your son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild, cousin, sibling or friend. The bigger the audience; the better the experience!

The show starts Sunday evening and includes 40 performers including 13 of the school's best dancers. The latest street jazz choreographed by Lucy Clark; Evacuate the Dancefloor. This'll be their best performance yet and will be showcased as a finale to the student’s latest solo singing work. The dance shall be included to give the students further performing experience, not only in the realm on musical theatre but also in the aspects of dance. Teaching them about performing with a group and as a team, but also spatial awareness, different styles, spacing and professionalism. The costumes will also unleash a certain confidence amongst the dancers, as they will be wearing what they like within a theme, allowing them to choose something they feel comfortable wearing and which also expresses individual personalities. We hope it will inspire them with the confidence to progress in their dance performance and ability to continue with their training. Not only this but gives the dancers a sense of achievement for the terms work, in which they've worked extremely hard; on technique as well as this dance in particular.

Please come and support the dancers and the school in their latest attributes. The money raised will go to the school's fund, which is raising money for new lead-less microphones for the YEM Rock Choir. The choir is recently gaining much success and respect in the professional world. There will also be a raffle where money raised will be donated to the local nursery; South Wood Nursery.
The junior students of the school (ages 4-14) will be performing at 2pm the same day, with their own selection of songs and featuring their jazz dance “Hit the Road Jack”.

On behalf the YEM Theatre School we hope to see you there!

Dates for your diary

Christmas Carols

Aldershot

23rd December

YEM Rock Choir

Musical Dreams 2010

Princes Hall

4th and 5th October

YEM Theatre School

The Said Dance My 3 Writing Pieces Are About

Evacuate the Dancefloor

My dancers unfortunately never got to complete their performance due to the CD skipping, luckily it was near the end, however we will be using the dance again in a show this Summer, so we'll get another chance!!

This is the show and dance I am referring to in my three pieces of writing.

The dancers range from 13 to 19 with little of some training and experience. I think they all did rather well.

Academic View of My Show

Why Is Jazz Choreography Performed in the School's Musical Theatre Solo Show?

After a recent discussion and debate; the parents and teachers of the students at the YEM Theatre School in Hampshire came to an agreement. They decided a group choreography would be suitable to be included in the up and coming family show. The show is to be held at Ancells Farm Studios in November 2009 and a choreography will now be produced for all following family shows directed and created by the school.

The family shows originally and traditionally embraced the singing, vocal and harmonic threat of the students' part time training, in the construct of a semi-formal production . These shows allow the young people to show off their talent and what they have accomplished and learnt throughout their training. Consequently, it generates a brilliant learning curve of professionalism and showmanship within theatre productions, especially since the YEM company produces an immense arrangement of theatre productions in local theatres and areas throughout the year. These particular family shows are arranged mainly for the benefit of the child's family. The shows welcome a personally invited audience to witness and enjoy the training endured at the school. It is also beneficial for the child to show their supporters what they have learnt to date. The shows stand as useful practise and rehearsal for the more formal variety shows, which are almost certain to follow.

Humphrey (1951) said “The dancer with conviction has power; many a dance of poor quality has been “put across” just by the superb belief of the performer in the work.....if you believe in yourself, everybody else probably will, too”. A dancer needs to attain confidence in their work and a perfect solution in order to achieve confidence in dance is to gain as much performing experience as possible.

Our dance has been placed as the finale of the YEM Theatre School's latest showcase of musical theatre work. The dance; Evacuate the Dancefloor (2009) by Cascada, a commercial dance track and the latest tune to another of Lucy Clark's street jazz choreography. The piece explores the idea of parties, enjoyment and attitude, as well as involving street jazz, technical and contemporary dance styles, illustrating a positive and confident time in the dancer's life. The choreography has amalgamated an eclectic combination of steps with original and unique movements. Not only this but the routine includes different spacing ideas allowing each dancer time perform at the front in full focus of the audience, creating a fair and equal performance. This aspect is extremely important in the early stages of a hobby such as dance, where the teachers ensure they encourage every individual to perform at the best of their abilities.

In juxtaposition to this view; the minority against including the choreography within the next theatre show, argued that it would detract from the main subject currently in focus and detract from the students solo singing performances.

In conclusion, the featured choreography will be included in the future performance as part of a massive learning curve to the students' training. The dancers have also thoroughly enjoyed previous jazz choreography and this will once be beneficial to their learning experience as a whole.

Describing My Show

Why Is Jazz Choreography Performed in the School's Musical Theatre Solo Show?

Midnight. A silhouetted party emerges from the darkness. A pretence of slow motion. A sea of silver, black and white comes to life as the commotion begins. Meeting and greeting eventuates until the beat kicks in and a dance floor naturally forms in the centre of the stage. At first, just three young girls brave the crowded dance floor. More and more indecipherable shapes start to join in their flow, until eventually everyone embraces the DJ and joins together to enjoy a fabulous party.

“Evacuate the Dancefloor” by Cascada transformed into the YEM Theatre School's latest street jazz choreography brings their most recent show of musical theatre solo performances to an outstanding finale. The show is a mixture and variety of musical theatre and pop songs with finished performances behind a taster of the school's work from the recent term. An outlook to some of the school's most talented pupils in a display and showcase of their recent work for close friends and family.

The attitude and style that is brought from the dance is just one small demonstration of the skills taught to the students. Not to mention the jazz technique, spacial awareness and professionalism they also practise. The routine conveys a strength and passion whilst acting-through-dance, to deliver a modern and intensive choreography to a small and personal audience.

This uplifting dance entails some inspired and creative costumes, allowing the students to express themselves within the coloured realms of black, white and silver. Flowers, sequins, stripes, and fishnets all masquerade a group of confident young women whom are coming of age. Mixed with strobe and flickering rainbow lights the atmosphere is sharp yet fun and care-free. The dancers are at ease in their own costume creations and can consequently perform to their best ability and enjoy the show they have worked so incredibly hard on.

Performing this dance to an attentive and supportive audience is what the hard-working students need to up their confidence and support them into further training within the school. It will help with a sense of achievement from the last terms hard but creative work in order to look forward what they in store for them next term, in which they will be challenged with different styles and choreography. The show is also a beautifully intended way to document each students success at the YEM Theatre school and for the students and their families to look back and share the memories.

From this performance, the dancers will have earned another string to their bow by adding another show and choreography to the YEM repertoire amongst the solo performances. Yet this dance is the perfect way to end another accomplished term.

Marketing My Show

Why Is Jazz Choreography Performed in the School's Musical Theatre Solo Show?

The YEM Theatre School

proudly presents

The 2009 Family Floor Show

with songs from the musicals

Featuring YEM's Senior's latest street jazz; Evacuate the Dancefloor

7pm 22nd November

Ancells Farm Studios

Tickets are only £3.00!

Ticket money raised will go towards new microphones for The YEM Rock Choir

All money raised in the raffle will be donated to South Wood Nursery School

The floor show is a biennial event showcasing the latest musical theatre works of the senior end of the school. The show takes place to give the students experience through performing a song of their choice that they've been working on for the last term. Some students will have recently taken musical theatre exams with the London College of Music or are currently working towards them. In either case, the show is a great learning experience for all students and one where every student needs all the support and encouragement you can give! So please spare your Sunday evening to support your son, daughter, niece, nephew, grandchild, cousin, sibling or friend. The bigger the audience; the better the experience!

The show starts Sunday evening and includes 40 performers including 13 of the school's best dancers. The latest street jazz choreographed by Lucy Clark; Evacuate the Dancefloor. This'll be their best performance yet and will be showcased as a finale to the students latest solo singing work. The dance shall be included to give the students further performing experience, not only in the realm on musical theatre but also in the aspects of dance. Teaching them about performing with a group and as a team, but also spacial awareness, different styles, spacing and professionalism. The costumes will also unleash a certain confidence amongst the dancers, as they will be wearing what they like within a theme, allowing them to choose something they feel comfortable wearing and which also expresses individual personalities. We hope it will inspire them with the confidence to progress in their dance performance and ability to continue with their training. Not only this but gives the dancers a sense of achievement for the terms work, in which they've worked extremely hard; on technique as well as this dance in particular.

Please come and support the dancers and the school in their latest attributes. The money raised will go to the school's fund, which is raising money for new lead-less microphones for the YEM Rock Choir. The choir is recently gaining much success and respect in the professional world. There will also be a raffle where money raised will be donated to the local nursery; South Wood Nursery.

The junior students of the school (ages 4-14) will be performing at 2pm the same day, with their own selection of songs and featuring their jazz dance “Hit the Road Jack”.

On behalf the YEM Theatre School we hope to see you there!

Dates for your diary

Christmas Carols

Aldershot

23rd December

YEM Rock Choir

Musical Dreams 2010

Princes Hall

4th October

YEM Theatre School

Alice In Wonderland - My New Choreography Project Research

Alice in Wonderland

Ballet Choreography for ages 4 to 17

Resources - youtube, iTunes, Google, Film, Album, Story

Ideas and research so far:

Above Image - an old style picture, bright colourful, attracting young audiences. Based on the original Walt Disney animations and characters. It features Alice, Rabbit, a bread butterfly and other strange woodland characters.

Image Below - my favourite image, a stylised busy and beautiful image of a make believe world.

Very detailed design, with depth and colour. Highlighting themes of flowers and wonder.

Below, a remixed track from Alice that's very unique and a bit different. As I am more jazz based dancer in my training, I would like a section of my choreography to have more of a jazz/ballet style in there to a less classical piece of music such as this.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym by Lewis Carroll . It is about the story of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world inhabited by strange and wonderful creatures.

Tied Apart Choreography

This is a rehearsal shot of one of my choreographies Tied Apart. This was the first time I could create a piece of dance about absolutely anything I wanted. You may have seen they have a thick black ribbon entwined into their position. The ribbon symbolised many ideas within the theme of abuse and neglect.

I used the track below by State Radio. I went to a gig of theirs in London a few year ago and got their album. I loved this song and it inspired me to create this choreography.

My Choreography Radar

This is a video from a show we did last year. I choreographed a street jazz number for ages 9 to 15 to the Britney song Radar. This is two separate classes merged together, so I actually taught the dance to them separately as their two classes until the week before when we actually pieced the dance together. They have one 45 minute class a week, including a warm up, technique and then dance rehearsal, so I think they did pretty well considering.

My challenges with the choreography included the wide age range of dancers and not having them rehearsing together, but we got there in the end. Unfortunately the lighting ruined the beginning and end of the dance, so you can't actually see what they're doing, but you get the idea. If you scroll across the youtube screen at the bottom, I also choreographed Fame for the whole school, including ballet, street jazz, jazz and singers. That was fun!

Links of Interest My Motivation

I get extremely excited when I have a new choreography task ahead of me and the way I start a piece is to first find a good piece of music. Sometimes they find me (which I love) and I will consequently zone out and choreograph (with the track still playing) in my head. If I can visualise what I want first then it's much easier to create and then teach.

If I need to look for a piece of music I scan my iTunes library and search for new artists on Spotify. http://www.apple.com/itunes/

http://www.spotify.com/en/

Teaching and choreographing go hand in hand and if I don't know what I'm doing or what I want then my dancers or students are definitely not going to know either.

youtube.com 500 days of Summer

The above is a video from 500 Days of Summer the film, and I love the music and dynamics in particular. This song really inspires me, but my choreographic ideas are nothing like this video. Mine are more appropriate to my teaching, using more dancers for our annual shows. Also, what would be the point if we all used the same ideas for every piece of music. I have my own mind and imagination and sometimes I find very good songs which cause it to run wild. I might just use this track for my school's show next year so I'll keep you posted.

Youtube.com Warrior Dance The Prodigy Music Video

The above video, doesn't really use much choreography and I heard the song long before I saw this video. Again my visions were entirely different, though the director's ideas for this video are very imaginative and clear; it's a very good idea. I would love to direct my own completely different music video to this song.

Youtube.com So You Think You Can Dance

This dancer is absolutely amazing in my opinion and I could watch this video again and again. His technique and choreography are beautiful. Blake is an inspiration to dance and dancers. Blake and other talented dancers inspire and motivate me to get to where I want to be. Every journey starts with a single step, this man must have started at the beginning like the rest of us.