Commerical

Practitioners

Cj Salvado

Miguel Zarate

Brian Friedman

Paris Goebel is a well known choreographer and dancer from New Zealand. As a choreographer she started off with a crew called royal family who are now very known in the dance world as the tour and compete all around the world. Goebel has worked with a number of current artists such as Rihanna, Ciara, Janet Jackson, Justin Bieber, Little Mix and many more. Her work has been used on tv shows, music videos and films. Paris style is known as polyswagg and she’s focuses on hearing, breathing and living for the music not only this but she shows inspiration from dancehall style which is seen in many of her choreographed pieces. As a dancer and choreographer she inspires me, through her movement and her stage presence. The way she performs with so much confidence is something I
want to take and be inspired by.

Self Confidence

As a dancer one of the most important aspects is to have self confidence in order to perform to the best of your ability. According to Dr. Jim Taylor self confidence is how you feel about yourself and your abilities and shows how much effort you put into yourself and reaching goals. Personally I’m my dance training I’ve found it very important to keep a positive mindset in order to get through my training. However if you have a negative mindset can lead to mental and physical issues such as depression and not dancing to the best you can. Self confidence is something I have been working on which is why this video is a great example to illustrate the improvement as I did a solo on my own in front of a camera. By getting opportunity’s like this allows me to grow in confidence and help me to improve in all aspects of dance.
Taylor, D., 2015. Self Confidence. [online] Available at: <https://www.drjimtaylor.com/4.0/self-confidence/> [Accessed 1 April 2020].

Fitness

Heels choreography

As a female dancer in majority of commercial auditions I will be dancing in heels, which is why we have heels classes on our timetable to prepare us for auditions. Wearing a silhetto heel isn’t as easy as people think, you need to have great strength in your ankles and legs whilst also having a strong core in order to dance in them successfully.

Heels class at Studio 25
Choreography- Sharon June
Here is a video of the heels class I took at studio 25 by Sharon June. The class started with strengthening exercises as it is important to have strong ankles and calves to stay sturdy when wearing your heels. We did rises, holding on relevay with eyes open and closed to prepare us for our heels and get use to balancing. After this we then put heels on but practiced technique such as turns and walks which will help when it comes to auditioning in feels as you have already put them into practice. Then we started the choreography, which is seen in the video. The choreography is very sensual and slow meaning you need to use all your body to fill up the movement. I felt the choreography had a lot of dynamics going from slow to then fast sharp movements.
Personally I’m these classes I feel steady in my heels as I have taken a lot of technique classes in training which has given me the strength and core stability to stay stable. This signifies that all technique classes are brought into all other genres of dance.
What I would work on if I was to do the class again are the slow bits, longing them out more to show my understanding of the dynamics and the musicality. To practice this I need to freestyle to slow songs to get into my muscle memory to allowing me to apply it to my choreography classes. However I think I took on all the details she went through in the class and I am clean throughout which shows how I have been working on my attention to detail throughout classes to reach my goal.

Performance

Here is a video from my final performance from Jamie’s piece in shockouts in house performance. When watching the video I think you can see a clear improvement on performance and confidence when dancing to an audience, this is because I have been practicing in my own time. I also see good stops and starts throughout which I have been continuing to improve. However I feel I need to still work on dynamics which will happen if I focus on listening to the music and playing around with them to make myself more individual. My goal for the new year to develop my performance when in class not just using it when we do it in front of an audience as a piece. Also focus on my dynamics to make my movement more unique.
The choreography-

Classes

Hip hop class at Shockout
Choreography- Chad Taylor
this class helps me to understand musicality and grooves better within my body, this is something I have identified as one of my weaknesses in dance and will be something I am focusing on throughout my training.

Commerical class at Shockout
Choreography- Josh Wharmby

Hip hop class in Shockout
Choreography- Jade Mcnally
This is a video of jades class from today, I’ve posted this so I can see the difference for the next three months from the goals I have set. In this video I can clearly see that I need to work on the dynamics and the stops and starts as it flows into one most of the time. I also need to show a clear understanding of light and shade. So for example the firsts move hitting it hard and contracting which I did but when watching it needs to be more. In a few months time I will re film this video to this if I have improved on these things.

Dancing with an artist
Commerical class at Shockout
Choreography- Jamie Luke
In commercial lessons with Jamie we always focus on different aspects such as cleanliness, dynamics, femininity, isolations. In this lesson we focused on femininity and allowing the movement to flow throughout the choreography. After a few weeks of working on the choreography given to us in this video, Jamie brought in the camera to see whether or not we could perform to the camera whilst also having an artist their. Jamie expressed how important it was to ensure you focus on the artist not yourself ensuring they feel confident with movements and that they are not alone on stage. Using a camera in lessons is a great way to prepare ourselves for the dance industry as it would be the same on a tv show and music video.

When analysing this video and watching myself back I feel I took a great effort in ensuring I make it flow all the way through highlighting light and shade which is what Jamie wanted us to focus on. However my lines could of been cleaner as at points my arms look a bit weak, after noticing this I will focus on making sure I work on making it better throughout my lessons.Dancing with an artist

Goals

GOAL- One of my goals in commercial is to work on stops and starts throughout until September, in my opinion this choreography is a good way of putting them into practice as there is a lot of waits in the music meaning you have to be on the music at all times.

GOAL- my first goal in commercial is working on my freestyle to different genres of music to ensure I am comfortable with anything given to me. Freestyle is something I struggle with when asked to do it in lessons throughout shockout as I lack confidence when doing it. This is goal will always be an ongoing goal however by September I am hoping to be more comfortable with it as I will be spending 30minutes every other night focusing on it in order for it to improve.

Shockout

Throughout shockout we have a variety of teachers teaching us different types of commercial dance allowing us to be as versatile as possible. Not only this but I take part in plenty of open classes to help my improvement as much as possible allowing my body to take a range of different information from different teachers in order to grow as a dancer.