Self-critical appreciation: style

Self-critical appreciation: style

Understanding Dance Styles

  • Identifying styles: Recognising, understanding, and being able to perform various dance styles is crucial.
  • Incorporating styles: Ability to efficaciously incorporate chosen style(s) into performances.

Performance Evaluation

  • Strengths and Weaknesses: Identifying your strengths and weaknesses in your performance aligning with the chosen style.
  • Improvement plan: Creating an action plan to strengthen the weak areas.

Adherence to Style’s Movement Vocabulary

  • Authenticity: Making sure movement vocabulary is authentic to the style.
  • Adaptation: Incorporating the style into personal choreography while maintaining its integrity.

Expressing Style

  • Awareness of style origin: Understanding the historical and cultural origins of the style will enhance your performance.
  • Showing style in performance: Correctly executing the posture, rhythm, movements and emotion inherent to the style.

Applying Feedback

  • Recognizing feedback: Acknowledge feedback or criticism regarding your style interpretation.
  • Implementing changes: Work to implement changes suggested in the feedback for improvement.

Style in Choreography

  • Style infusion: Ensuring the chosen style is clearly evident in the choreography.
  • Maintaining style consistency: Throughout the choreography, the style should remain clear and consistent.

Attention to Musicality

  • Musical interpretation: Interpreting the music and translating it into movement fitting the chosen style.
  • Sync with music: Dance movements should be synchronised with the music aligned with the style requirements.

Remember maintaining a consistent, strong, and clear dance style is crucial to any successful dance performance and routine. Through continuous self-critical appreciation, you can hone your performance and make improvements where necessary.