Rehearsal #4

I think the dance is coming along nicely and towards the end of the class, everyone seemed to be dancing on beat and in unison with each other. You guys look really really good! Great job!

We must try to maintain this standard and keep improving from week to week. This is only possible with regular self-practice. If you don’t have enough time/space to practice at home, feel free to arrange with other dancers to come to studio earlier and rehearse the steps. This is especially so if you missed the previous session. Those who are more familiar with the steps, help one another out. We should always start a rehearsal all prepared and all ready to move on to new steps.

The main thing that is required at this moment is to make sure you remember your steps, remember the timing/counts and remember the formation changes. So focus on getting those down first. Later then we will do “cleaning” (another dance term).

Cleaning:
To review and touch up the steps by breaking it down to its smallest details (e.g. head look where? angle of the hands? how low to bend? how far apart to stand? chin tilt up? down? fist or palm? etc etc). Purpose is to synchronize the dancers so that every one looks the same. Usually it is only after a thorough cleaning session that a choreographed dance item really shines. It’s almost like magic.

Videos will be up soon…

Just leave you with a one-liner about the videos we’re putting up for your revision:
A group dance is not something that you can learn just by watching a video.

~Out~