How To Choreograph To Ice Skating Music
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How To Choreograph To Ice Skating Music
Choreography to ice skating music is indeed very expressive and interesting. But how do you pick the right music and come up with the routines? Listen to these tips from an ice skating coach.
Choreography to music is so important. It's basically the next stage that one should master the basics. When choosing the music, first of all, you want to try and think of a story in your mind.
That's the way that I like to work. So, you can transpire that story onto the ice and bring the audience on a little journey. Whether you're doing it in a minute and a half or four to five minutes or even a complete show, you want them to feel like they're part of what's actually going on.
The choreography is a way of expressing yourself and it has to come from within you personally. Like a story, it has a beginning, middle and an end, making sure that you have various chapters within that particular piece. It's also very very important on the ice to create various shapes with your body.
Make it interesting, different heights, different arm movements, different body shapes, also sticking to a complete rhythm with the music. All these key factors are major in giving you a complete routine whether you're doing it from a competitive point of view or even just recreational or even a show number. If you are doing skating competitively, as you're aware that the ice skating union on the international skating union would actually steep it out on what key moves are within that particular routine which you follow and then you do your choreography built around that.
Within the routine, when you're actually out in the ice, when you put it together, you want to have a variant of highlights, lifts, jumps, key moments where there's interaction with your partner if you're doing ice dancing or in pairs. It's also really important to ensure that the pattern of the program changes direction. It shows difficulty and a much better quality skater will actually give you a much different variation of direction when actually on the ice.
Speed, flow, timing and selling the routine to the audience, bringing them into the performance, is key factors. And that is how to choreograph a routine on the ice to music. .