Choreographed vs. Freestyle Dance
Before even viewing this dance video you get a sense for what you will be witnessing. The context of the video is an outdoor area, with a street and a fence in the background. The dancers in the video are wearing coats and hats suggesting it is a cold day. The lighting in the video is natural lighting from the sun. The dancers seem to be wearing normal clothes that do not match one another and are not typical clothes that you would expect a professional dance group to be wearing. You can also notice all these people are standing around in an unorganized manner and have formed a circle in the middle. You can determine and pinpoint all these observations about the video even before you click on it to watch. This gives off the feeling that the dance in the video will be a freestyle type dance that was constructed spontaneously due to the lack of aspects associated with choreographed “professional” dance. Once you watch the video all the feeling and assumptions that were made before watching the video are validated in terms of what appears to be a group of friends dancing for fun in an non-choreographed way. You can hear the loud noises and cheering and observe no distinct choreography to the dance. Despite the spontaneous appearance the dance and video give off, it is still entertaining to watch and is a form of hip hop dance. The dancer in the video is great at dancing even though this whole event was not practiced or planned out.
When watching the first 5 seconds or so of this video a distinct feeling and assumption towards the video is established. First a logo appears that signifies you are about to watch a dance group or some sort of professional association. The next thing you notice is all the dancers are wearing the same thing and are standing in an organized position relative to one another. They are in a large indoor stage, the audio is crisp, the video looks professionally recorded, and you can see the big bright stage lights shining down on the dancers. You can gather all this information with watching the first five seconds of the video. All these aspects and the context of the video give off a very professional and choreographed feel. When you go on to watch the entirety of the video all these assumptions you made based on visual pointers are validated once again. The dance is very choreographed, all the dancers are in sync with one another and it gives off a very professional and rehearsed feeling as you watch the video. The dance was very entertaining to watch and the dance is a form of hip hope dance. The dancers in the video clearly had a lot of dancing experience and were good at what they did and the whole performance looked flawless and the music, lights, clothing, stage, and spacing, all seemed to be harmonious in creating one main picture and experience that gives off a sense of competence and dedication.
