Do It Yourself - Aldc

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Okay you are now on the team as Chloe! Welcome!

Team 2 has a lot of open spots. You can be any dancer you want except Mackenzie, Sophia, Chloe, Kalani, Maddie, & Autumn.  

Sorry guys! I've been busy lately with school starting and other stuff. I'll try to get the pyramid up this week. We also need new members! As for Team 1, I have no idea what's going on there because I am not the admin for that team.

Maddie Team 2 is not open. Please pick another dancer that is not already on the team. As for Kendall, please send in another ask for that.

Story: This dance is about a really strong love and a compass in relation to that. The compass represents how two people in love find their way to each other, time and time again. The compass "points you home" to each other. The dance is about McKaylee being deeply in love with someone and expressing that throughout the dance and using the compass prop to find her lover. The dance starts with McKaylee walking onto the stage from a diagonal clutching the compass, but it will be around her neck. When the music starts, she begins dancing but still in the diagonal. She does a couple of coupe turns, a lunge move, etc. until she gets to the front corner of the stage. She takes the compass necklace off and holds it. When the chorus comes at 0:29, she runs softly in circles to the middle of the stage, sort of like how a compass turns. She points to the right, like her compass is telling her where to go, then does a calypso leap in the direction she pointed. Then she slips the necklace back on and continues dancing. The choreography of this dance is very unique. It's a lot like Alexa Moffett's contemporary choreo. McKaylee does do some turns, leaps, and other tricks here and there, but the majority of the dance is just quirky contemporary moves. There are some lunge moves, a hinge, some leg extensions, and more. Throughout the dance McKaylee uses the compass, to show it pointing her towards her love. There is one part in the dance where McKaylee does a long turn sequence. At 2:28, she does a turn sequence with a la secondes, pirouettes, floats, skater spins, and an illusion turn at the end. The turn sequence represents the compass turning and turning, trying to find her true love. And then the illusion turn represents how it finally stops and points her in the right direction. McKaylee must use her best emotions, happy, overwhelmed, relieved, etc., to represent this love story. She also must act out the story and dance her heart out to capture the audience and judges.

Story: This dance is about someone leaving you and just completely breaking your heart and tearing you apart. Chloe has been left by her significant other and she feels lost and like she can't even operate with him. McKaylee is Chloe's support system. She helps her get through it and helps her cope with the pain. Until the end of the dance, when Chloe has come to terms with the empty spot in her love life and she learns to live without him. They are chained together for most of the dance because McKaylee fills the void in Chloe's life, so they're attached to each other. The dance starts with Chloe sitting at the front edge of the stage, head in her hands, and rocking slightly. McKaylee starts at the back corner and does turns up to Chloe during the instrumental part at the beginning of the song. Then when the lyrics start, she grabs Chloe's hand, spins her around, and lifts her up then Chloe falls in McKaylee's arms, obviously hurt, and they do some partner work. Then at 0:35, they do a turn sequence together of a la secondes, pirouettes, and stag leg turns. McKaylee lands her turns, but Chloe falls to the ground out of hers. Then at 0:49 McKaylee leans down and hooks the chain on her bracelet to Chloe's bracelet. Then this is when the mood of the dance changes. The majority of the rest of the dance is them dancing while being chained, which represents McKaylee helping Chloe heal. They do a lot of leaps together, like firebirds and second leaps. They also do some more partner work, like two person cartwheels (basically Chlo does a cartwheel in the air holding onto McKaylee's legs and McKaylee does the same on Chloe). They do some pretty leg extensions, like a penche and tilts. They do some quirky contemporary moves. But they do all this while being chained. During this time, Chloe gradually becomes more independent and healed. Then at 2:46, the girls stand at the front of the stage and Chloe reaches down and unhooks the chain, showing that she is okay now. Then McKaylee walks off and Chloe finished the rest of the dance doing a solo part of a small turn sequence and a leap out of the turns then a leg extension and she poses to end the dance. The girls must use their emotions to portray this story. Chloe must use sad and broken faces, as well as faces of healing and peace. McKaylee uses faces that portray her helpfulness and happiness that Chloe is mending her broken heart. This dance is meant to spark emotion in the audience and judges, so the girls will really need to use their emotions and acting skills for this dance to be a hit.

Story: This dance is about loneliness. All three girls feel extremely lonely. They don't have any friends and they are always alone. They crave someone's attention and someone's- anyone- touch. They just want to feel something. And they find that in each other. They become friends and then they don't feel so lonely. Each other's touch helps them. This dance is about expressing loneliness and showing how one can overcome it. The dance starts with the girls in a horizontal line with their heads down. The girl on the left end reaches out and touches the others shoulder and leans into her, picking one foot up off the ground with a flexed toe. They each do that. Then when the lyrics start, they all pull away, like they don't know what happened. They do a little combo where they fall on the ground and push away from each other then do a shoulder roll and a toe rise up. They seem to realize that the touch they felt wasn't bad, so they wonder back in towards each other. Then at 0:19, they form a circle and touch each other's shoulders and sway back and forth. Then they break apart and dance in sync. They do pretty lyrical moves, which involves a lot of moves that show off their technique, like some moves involving deep plies. Also, they do turns, mostly pirouettes, chaines, piques, and coupes. They also do a couple of leaps, like a calypso and a russian switch leap. At 3:50, the girls all do hinges slowly in unison and then slide down onto their backs on the floor. Then they egg roll to stand up and go back to their original places, a horizontal line with their heads down. Then one by one they lean and put a hand on the next's girls shoulders, just like in the beginning, and they end the dance like that. The girls use lonely, sad, overwhelmed, and then happy and satisfied emotions and facials to portray this heavy story of loneliness. Their goal in this dance is to make the audience feel something.

Story: This dance is about someone who has almost hit rock bottom. Brynn portrays someone who has gone into a downward spiral. The rest of the girls are portraying her friends. They want to help. They're trying to convince her to go get help and to be motivated to bring herself out of this rut, because she has so much more life to live. They're trying to make her look at what she's doing. But she's too far gone. She keeps spiraling downward until she hits the very bottom at the end of the dance. The fabric prop represents the thin line Brynn is walking on between her and rock bottom. The dance starts with the fabric laying horizontally across the front of the stage with Brynn laying on it. For the beginning instrumentals, she does floor work on the fabric. Then when the lyrics start, the other girls run prettily on stage and surround Brynn, causing Brynn to freeze in a sitting position facing the back. Then they back up and all grab a part of the edge of the fabric. They pick it up with Brynn on it and turn it 180 degrees, so Brynn is facing the audience. Then two of the girls go and help Brynn stand up on the stage, showing they are trying to help her, while the rest of the girls move the fabric upstage. She gets up and they begin to dance in sync, but Brynn dances sort of heavily to show her current emotional and mental state. This dance consists of a balanced mix of pretty lyrical moves, like flowy arms and deep plies, and interesting contemporary moves, like lunges. The girls do a lot of tricks as well, like turns, leaps, and gorgeous leg extensions. They also do a lot of work with the fabric prop with Brynn on it or taking it over Brynn. At 1:57, two girls lift Brynn up on the fabric and swing it back and then forward and sling Brynn off of it. She lands in the other girls' arms in a superman position facing the audience and then curls up and flips forward out of their arms and onto the ground. She then does some more floorwork to show how close to the bottom she is while the other girls dance in sync around her. At 2:50, Brynn stands on the fabric and does a calypso leap to the ground and egg rolls into a laying position. Then at 2:54, the other girls pull the fabric out from under Brynn and walk off, while Brynn, who is laying on her side half curled up, reaches out for someone to help, then eventually drops her hand in surrender. All of the girls, but especially Brynn, must use their acting skills perfectly to portray the heavy story. They also have to use sad, angsty, emotional, and hurt faces to portray the story and make the judges sit on the edge of their seats.

Story: This is a dance about saying goodbye. Kalani and Maddie were best friends from the time they were little and remained friends even when Kalani moved across the country. Maddie didn't realize how much pain Kalani was in because she didn't know Kalani's boyfriend was abusing her emotionally and physically. Now, Kalani has died and they're trying to say goodbye. Kalani wants Maddie to know that she couldn't have done anything more than she did and that she's finally happier and free from the abuse. This dance is all about emotion. Maddie portrays sadness and loss, while Kalani portrays sadness, but also happiness and lightness/freedom. They don't want to say goodbye but Kalani doesn't belong anymore. This dance will have many lyrical moves, some partner work, turns like a la second and fouettes, and leaps like switch leaps and calypsos. This dance will require very good technique and a strong emotional connection. This dance is to raise awareness of domestic violence/ intimate partner violence. 

Story: Kalani won't let anybody in. She can't trust anyone completely and won't let go of her secrets and fears, so they're tearing her apart. The only place she talks about what's going on is in the journal which no one else ever sees/ reads. Kalani has been through a lot and she doesn't know how to express it. This dance will focus on Kalani's acting skills. She must portray someone who fears anything new or different and doesn't trust people. She portrays sadness, brokeness, and being overwhelmed. This dance will also be very difficult technique wise. This dance will have many lyrical moves, turns like a la second, coupe turns, fouettes, and pique turns. It will also have Russian switch leaps, split leaps, and switch leaps. They will be a couple of scorpions and other moves that showcase Kalani's flexibility. At the end of the dance after she throws the journal she walks off stage with a small smile and a little bit of hope with her head held high. She's willing to let someone in finally.

Story: This dance is about going beyond living right now. The girls are trying to figure out what life beyond death will be. They all have a picture of it in their minds. This dance will be technically difficult and focus on their emotions. They will portray the emotions of confusion and dreaming. This dance will have many lyrical moves, turns like fouettes, pique turns, and a la second turns. They we're also be split leaps and Russian switch leaps. The girls will begin the dance in a row sitting with their heads leaning on each others shoulders. Slowly the girls begin to disappear until only Kalani is left on stage. She lays down in the middle of the stage curled up with her head resting on her arm and her legs bent together. 

Story: This dance is about not letting anything or anyone get you down. This is a very upbeat dance and the girls are happy because they feel like nothing and no one can't ruin their day. This dance will have a lot musical theatre moves as well as leaps like straddle leaps, calypsos, and split leaps. This dance will have front and side aerials. This dance will focus on the girls acting skills. They have to have over the top emotions of happiness. 

Story: Autumn and Mia used to be best friends that did everything together  but now they have irreconcilable differences. They can't stand each other. They had a huge fight and never made up. This dance will emphasize emotion mostly hate and anger. This dance will focus on technique. The were be some partner work but mostly contemporary moves, turns, and leaps. There will be solo parts during the dance but also parts of dancing together. They will be sitting in the chairs but also dancing around and on top of them. They can never be friends again. At the end of this dance both girls look exhausted and come face to face for just a moment before skulking off to the opposite wings. 

Story: This dance is about how all the girls are hurting on their own, but they realize that together they can make it through. All the girls have made big mistakes and they can't seem to forgive themselves. They realize that they can fix themselves by helping each other. This dance will have lots of contemporary moves, turns, and leaps. There will be a lot of partner work. There will be a turn sequence in the middle that starts from one end until all the girls are turning. The emotions in this dance will be sadness and regret. This dance will focus on emotion but also test the girls technique. 

Story: This is a fun dance for the girls. They will be acting a little bit sassy and very flirty. They will focus mostly on emotion in this dance. There will be lots of jazz funk moves, turns, leaps, and some acro. They're trying to prove why they should be the girls that guys leave their girlfriends but only if they really love them.