Ballet - The Choreography Makes Emotion

Choreography is the cause of dance in the first place. Without someone making up so many dances in the world people wouldn't improve in dance and some people wouldn't be famous. Lots of people now a days are famous because they danced a lot in their past and they are good at it. Like Maddie Ziegler, if it wasn't for her choreographer Abby Lee Miller she wouldn't have gotten an opportunity in a Sia video and then onto Dancing with the Stars as a judge, all because of her dancing. Author Susan Au made a statement about a ballet choreographer Beauchamp who invented different ballet steps that we use today. Also that Beauchamp changed his teaching methods to become a little harder so that it will challenge his students to push themselves. Au also explained that all of those kids who were pushed were able to accomplish their goals of improving and getting great outside opportunities (26). Just like Maddie Ziegler, these kids rose to the occasion because of their great choreographers, who kept pushing them all the time without even thinking about it.

What choreographers do with their dancers isn't always about just pushing their technique and stuff. Choreographers also like their dancers to tell a story using different emotion, like author Au states. "The 18th century was an age of brilliant dancers, yet it was also a time when both dancers and choreographers began to seek something beyond the mere display of technique. Dance, they felt, should be more than an ornament of even an object of wonder; it should convey some meaning to the viewer (29). Au stated this because technique can't always tell the true meaning of a story, but the choreographers always remind dancers to use their faces when they dance so they can portray their character. Something I always remember choreographer Abby Lee saying is use the Maddie face, because Maddie Ziegler is so good at her emotion that it gave everyone chills. But for me whenever I dance, my emotion came naturally because I always feel the music as I'm learning it, then when we keep going over it I can feel my face feeling it too.

Do you feel choreographers are the reasons dancers are so good? Why or why not?

                Au Susan. Ballet and Modern Dance: Third edition. New York, New York: Thames & Hudson world of art, 1988. Copyright