What are the responsibilities required to be a dance captain, and how can I efficiently manage and teach a group of people choreography? Summary: I will be a dance captain for the schools fall musical. Dance captain is like a job that I was assigned. I have certain expectations that I need to meet and have goals to complete daily. I have been built into the schedule so that I have times when people are working with me while the director is rehearsing other scenes. My duties include writing choreography for the show and also being able to learn every dance number and blocking so I can teach it to all of the cast members and be there for reference when needed. I am a dancer myself so I am interested in learning how to transform from the student …show more content…
to the teacher. I hope that dance is something that can stay with me long after I graduate from high school. I am engaged by the whole process and production of putting on a musical. The challenging part will be to learn the best way to teach a big group of people, who for the most part are not dancers, difficult and fast choreography. I have to keep their focus on the dance and make sure the dance scenes run smoothly and turn out to be incredible. If the dancers are confused or stuck on choreography, I need to be there to help them out. This experience will teach me many new skills as well as enhance the ones I already have.
It will allow me to be a manager and better my leadership skills. I will learn how to manage a big group of people, which is something that can be applied to many various careers. I will learn the best way to be a teacher and to stay calm and focused when things get difficult or crazy. All of these skills are not only applicable to the dance world, but to life in general. Goal and Objectives: My goal is to teach and polish dance numbers so that they will be clean and exciting for the show. My objectives are to learn the best ways to direct a group of people and to understand the duties required of a dance captain. I would like to improve my communication and leadership skills. Methods: I will first contact the director so that we can collaborate on ideas. Then I will start thinking of choreography, spacing, and places for the big dance number. I will create an outline for how to run rehearsal and what I need to teach. I will warm up the cast before every time we dance. I will break down the choreography to the cast in order to teach it to them, while gradually bringing the choreography up to tempo. I will run dance rehearsals. I will attend rehearsal to learn blocking for other scenes and dance numbers. I will help with polishing the choreography for the
show. Evaluation: My project can be evaluated by the quality and effort of the overall final dance within the show. I can be evaluated by the cast members about my teachings as a dance captain. I can also be evaluated on the skills that I will develop and compare them to what I know about being a dance student as opposed to a dance captain. I can also get feedback from the director and be evaluated during the classroom and evening presentation.
For the past four years, I’ve been a cheerleader for Van Nuys Senior High School, granted that for two years I’ve been the captain. On surface level, a captain’s only job is to be the communicator, and representative for the coach as well as the team. As captain I performed responsibilities such as leading team conditioning, choreographing for the team, in addition to making sure the team is always ready. However, through cheer-leading I’ve learned that, holding the title “captain” is much more than that.
Ever since I was little I wanted to be a captain just like my older sister. Back then I thought it was just a cool label, but in my past three years as a TCHS cheerleader I have quickly learned the amount of dedication and hard work this position entails. I qualify for being a captain because I have a good attitude, work well with others, and always put in an effort to work hard.
Ballet is an athletic art form that utilizes muscle control, flexibility, and physical strength. It requires extreme discipline from the dancers and takes an extreme amount of mental concentration. This discipline causes dancers to have success throughout life and specifically in academic studies. There are many ways that dance can affect the success of a person’s life; however, there are two in specific that make dancers generally more successful. To begin, ballet causes dancers to be self-motivated workers; dancers cannot rely on others to push them to be better, but must have the drive within themselves.
For the dancer, music and choreography are paramount. The music guides the dancer, and the moves express the music. However, the dance has to start from somewhere.
According to an article by Marjie Gilliam, titled “The many Health Benefits of Dancing,” dance offers a total body workout, using all of the major muscle groups and providing heart-healthy benefits. And that “the benefits can extend beyond fitness.” His study shows that, a recent study in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine found that teaching the cha-cha to a small group of older adults twice a week for six months was enough to improve their memory and cognitive function on a number of tests. Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that ballroom dancing at least twice a week made people less likely to develop dementia (Marjie Gilliam). In my personal experience, dance helped improve my health because it is a form of physical activity. For example, in high school, I was in a dance club and we had to dance to hip hop. It required a lot of body movements and a lot of energy. I remember sweating a lot after an intense hip hop dance session. Moreover, through this dance club I lost weight and got more fit. Thus, dancing definitely benefits our health and keeps our body in shape. In kinesiology where health factors are also present, it is important to reflect that dance has shown many groups of people, past or present, the significance amount of movements it offers as well as health benefits ever since back in the
I have always been fascinated by the many arts. Around September of last year, I discovered a show that had to do with dancing and singing, which caused me to have a slight interest in the former. In November, my best friend showed me a band that is talented in dancing, and this group has fueled my curiosity. Furthermore, I have already taken a few steps towards learning their dances. I aspire to accomplish the ability to dance because of this group, I am trying to learn the choreography to their songs, and I want to perform in front of people who enjoy watching others dance.
I have taught dance classes for the last four years and the little dancers really look up to me as their role model. I was nominated as dance team captain by my peers for my school dance team. I have also been on the leadership team at Central DeWitt Community Schools. We would meet regularly to talk about goals to increase our leadership skills amongst our peers. I am also a member of the Jr. Brown Swiss Association and have lead the younger members through our annual concession stand fundraisers teaching them the ropes so they can help the next generation. All of these leadership roles are thanks to my devotion to 4-H. Being involved with my community is a future goal of mine. It always feels good to give
Although I am not a great dancer by any means, I learned through my years of involvement in dance that if you want something you should not let any hardships stop you. This message is what helps push me toward success in my educational
...riginate in the rave scene, later down the road it could have its own events and I’ll be in charge of hosting the events. Eventually starting my own dance studio mainly based on street dance. I know the right people who can help me make this possible from my experience with Go-Go dancing at different events and raves, dance is my passion and I have the power to do this. I’m bringing dance to the next level in Salt Lake City! . I will be the one that originates street dance in Salt Lake. And eventually start my own dance studio. Watch out, because street dancing is coming to Salt Lake City, Utah!!
For many of the people on the team, it was a way to break out and be who we really are, instead of hiding. Sometimes when people came to the dance team, they were shy and quiet, but the team was a nut-cracker for that shell, most people did not leave shy anymore. I was a prime example. We had the typical ones, be on time, keep good grades to continue to be eligible, and many others.
At first I was apprehensive about marching band, but throughout the season I grew to absolutely love it, I loved how so many different people with different skills and one similar interest came together to make such an amazing show. It really was mindblowing how the first days of band camp was just the start that would end with such an amazing product. I am so excited to be apart of that again, and to hopefully be a leader and help my section be even better than they were this year. If I am chosen for leader I will improve my section by giving positive feedback, but also giving them ideas on ways to improve. I will make sure my section will be focused and hardworking.
A question that has pondered for a myriad of years: how does one develop the vision of choreography in the mind and transfer it to human bodies? Choreographers try to explain this question through the pieces that they develop over the years. Their pieces “must be part of an organic whole, supporting the story, characters, and the overall artistic intent” (AACT). The Encyclopedia of Britannica defines choreography as “an art of creating and arranging dances”. The word is derived from the Greek words to “dance” and “write”. Modern day choreographers were asked to define the choreography in one word like the ancient Greeks derived it from. The words that they described choreography as were: art, movement, creativity, planning, and expressions
... emotionally or physically. Dance is a great way to express yourself when you are happy sad, excited, gloomy, or just to make yourself better. Dance did not start very clean or good, it had a mix of everything and it always will. So people who perform it make the best out of it and it becomes their passion. Always makes the best out of worst by dancing yourself in and out of it.
So how does dance benefit me? Dance benefits me in many ways. Physically, mentally and socially. Physically dance benefits me by giving me an exercise, improving my health, and creating superfluidity in the brain. Mentally dance creates a creative outlet and it can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression. Socially dance benefits me by making a place where people can meet and create new friendships.
There are many benefits to any and all types of dance mentioned above. One major benefit that is commonly known is that it is a source of physical exercise. However, dance can also make you smarter, reduce stress, increase serotonin levels and can give one a sense of well-being. Dancing can also improve your posture and your weight and lower your risk for heart and blood vessel