Discover the Music

Authors

Stephanie Haymore, Brigham Young University
Shani Robison, Brigham Young University

Keywords

music, dance, choreography, contemporary ballet

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Dance

Abstract

I was excited to work on my project and create my choreography. I studied out the music and broke it down into counts. I found the different accents of each phrase. I made choices as to where I would follow the music and where I would go against the music. I had to be careful and watch how the music and movement were relating. It would have been easy to choreograph movement that paralleled the music. It would have been comfortable to use movement that I already knew and had used and performed before. I was challenged and had to work hard for every count and for every movement I created. Working with contemporary ballet gave me the opportunity to create my own movement that fit to my music and ideas. I was able to give depth to the music with my own movement.

Recommended Citation

Haymore, Stephanie and Robison, Shani (2013) "Discover the Music," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 2239.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/2239