Social media put a camera in front of everyone, and that is mostly a good thing. But somewhere in the rush, technique lost its meaning. You do not need to be the best dancer. You do need to know what good dancing is.
Good dancing is not a few hours of work
Technique, intricate choreography, musicality, costuming — none of that comes together in an afternoon. Choreography needs to marinate. It goes through multiple revisions and a long stretch of re-runs before it looks like anything. That is the process, and it has not changed just because the tools around it have.
What has changed is the clock. In a fast-paced world of reels and clout, dancers put a few hours into a piece, throw on pants, and shoot the video while the song is still viral. The song moves on. So does the video. Nothing was built.
We are trying to get back to the roots of it
That means treating a piece as something worth returning to. Sitting with the music. Cutting a section that does not work and rebuilding it. Running it enough times that the dancers stop counting and start performing. It is slower, and it is the reason the work holds up after the trend passes.
For wedding couples, this does not mean professional-level dance
Wedding choreography does not need to be advanced. Our goal is to make it easy — and to make sure our clients dance well. There is a difference. Well means completing a step instead of half-marking it. Staying in the beat. Extending your arms all the way. Small things, and they are the entire difference between a video you rewatch and one you scroll past.
Most people can learn to do those things in the time they already have. It is a matter of what gets taught, and how carefully.
Curated, not copy-paste
Before we choreograph anything, we ask what your music vibe is, and what your color scheme looks like. Then we take our time and build a piece around those answers. That is a curated dance made for one couple, not a quick copy-paste routine that could belong to anyone.
We are still students
Every one of our dancers is trained in the form they teach. And after years of practice, we still attend class to be critiqued, because that is how you keep getting better. We would not ask a client to learn something we have stopped learning ourselves.
If that sounds like the way you want to work, see our wedding choreography or private lessons.
Dancer, teacher, or a couple about to learn your first routine? Tell us what you think. Comments are read and posted by hand, so give us a day or two.