for ballroom competitions where all the couples are on the floor dancing at the same time to the same music, do the competitors receive the music before the competition and then choreograph their routine to it or they have a routine pre-choreographed and they dance their routine to any music that is played?
thats a good question. im not familiar with ballroom comps. anyone know?
Each style of dance has specific time signature so you choreograph your “routines” to that time signature and then the competition picks a song and you do your routine. Provided you choreographed your routine on the correct time signature it will go to the music. So like Jive has a time signature of 4/4 (so 4 beats for every bar of music) and the counts of all Jive routines (1, 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6) will match up.
thanks amanda!
The hardest thing about it is that everyone’s moving in slightly different directions so you have to learn how to dodge people on a crowded floor!
I've competed professionally before.. American or international, depending on which one your doing your either going to have a 5 dance or 4 dance.. male sure you choose the right type of music for each style. You don't need music to choreograph, just the timing for each dance.. once your choreography is done that's when you practice it to different songs according to the style... Its a lot fun!
