Humans are hard-wired to respond to stories. How could you retell that story with your favourite style of dance? Use your imagination in other parts of life to imagine the story behind what you see. The best way to become proficient at telling stories in your dance is to tell yourself stories in life. A break-up between a loving couple could be one chapter followed by a lonely walk in the park, heavy with sadness.
Sections of the dance can act like chapters of the story, breaking it down into smaller chunks and highlighting the most important things that are happening. There should be a beginning, a middle and an end to the dance that people can follow when watching. Once you have your characters and understand the emotions involved with the story, it is time to put it together. Or a happy person who just had great news will have that bounce in their step and smile on their face. So if someone is angry, the use of a serious or angry look with sharp and strong dance moves will portray this. If you are running scared in a section, that feeling of fear you have created will help your dance movements seem more fearful.Ĭombining emotions with movements helps to create that story. This helps to make the dance more realistic for people watching it. Not only that but by creating these emotions, you will also feel them. These are the easiest way to show an emotion - happiness in a smile, sadness in a frown. That’s where body language and facial expressions come in. Telling a story is about playing on emotions and evoking them in your audience. Or someone who is up to something a little sneaky would be slower and more cautious in their movements. For example, if someone is a brash and bold character, then their moves may be somewhat exaggerated. Once you know who your character is, then start to think about their movements and how this will impact the dance. In most stories, there’s a good dose of fiction and this can be a fun thing to start with.
Even if you are telling a real-life story, the character is the person whose story you are telling. The starting point is always a character. At Jade Harrison School of Dance we know the essence of dance is to tell a story and we love sharing this with our students.īut how do you tell a story with dance if you want to try this yourself? Or sometimes just purely with the dance moves alone. It is a tiny part in a moving story, a tale told through the combination of dancing and music.
Easy dance moves to happy series#
Every dance is more than just a series of movements with elaborate names.
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