Collectively Artful ♫ talks about Choreography

I love dance.... All dance: from hip hop, tap and musical theater to ballet. Seeing a person move through space in a perfectly timed and thought out sequence of events is amazing to me. I danced for years, as a ballet student through high school, then in musical theater shows. I have been teaching musical theater in a place where dancing takes place 90% of the time for the last 5 years so I get to enjoy it on many levels. I get to see everyone from the little creative movement toddlers through the professional and pre-professional dancers that teach, take classes and rehearse at our Arts Studio. But a beautiful dance is not accidental, any more than a poem is words thrown in any order on a page. Like a poem, there is an author to dance: The choreographer.

An author chooses their subject and the cadence to the words they use. They have to think of their audience and manipulate their words to make it memorable to the person who is reading it. The same is done with a choreographer. They start with an idea and then create the piece thinking of the music, the genre of dance, the audience and who will be performing it. There are as many types of dancing as there is poetry, the choreographer creates their moving art using all the experience they have collected over the years from performing themselves to watching others. Sometimes they will tell a story, other times they will just have bodies speak what words can not sometimes express through music and movement.

Here at Collective Soles Arts Group, we have many talented choreographers and 4 of them have been specially chosen to participate in Hillsborough Community College Dance Program and School of Visual and Performing Arts  “FOUR DAYS OF DANCE”, a performance series celebrating the variety and diversity of dance in the Tampa Bay community in celebration of National Dance Week. http://www.hccfl.edu/yc/dance/4-days-of-dance.asp

Congratulations to our very own Jansen Dance Project instructors as they present their amazing choreography April 17–20th 2013 at 7:30pm HCC Mainstage Theatre. Shelley Dignum presenting  "Summertime", Marissa Sullivan presenting "Sevillanas", Audrey Richter presenting "Never Let Me Go" and Jasmine Jones presenting "Dust Bowl"

Collective Soles Arts Group is a performing arts organization providing dance, musical theater training and performance opportunities for artists ages 2 to adult. We are located at 5330 Primrose Lake Circle. You can call us at 813-979-2222 for information about our classes and upcoming performances. Come Celebrate the Arts with Us!