Choreography. By me. Boom.

Hey look, I've choreographed a couple of original routines and even taught them to people AND had them performed at Friday Night Dance Parties. Feelsgoodman. 

This first video is of an East Coast Swing routine (with a little Line Charleston thrown in) set to "Runaway Baby" by Bruno Mars. 

The second video is of a West Coast Swing routine (my favorite, duh) set to "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5. 

Fun facts: I'd been working on "Moves Like Jagger" since freaking October of last semester, but it kept getting pushed back because 1) It's a pretty beastly routine in terms of difficulty and length = longer time/more practice days to learn/teach it 2) It was a bad time in general, finals were coming up=pushed back, returning to class in January BUT having Ballroom Magic at the end of the month = more pushing back, and by the time February came around, I had to re-teach the entire routine. Awesome. But it was done this past weekend, people seemed to really like it, and I'm just glad it's finally done and over with. I am officially sick of the song, seeing as I've probably listened to it 100+ times since October. 

"Runaway Baby" took one night to choreograph, one night to teach to my dancers, and it was performed that same week.  It was performed last February. I think people really received it better than they did with MLJ. Honestly even I think RB was better executed than MLJ. Da'fuuuuq? 

But okay, there are reasons for this. RB is at least a minute shorter in length compared to MLJ. I've choreographed actual repeating sections/choruses for RB which makes it that much easier to learn compared to MLJ, but I mean, a lot of that has to do with how RB is as a song. And, people in the group had been hearing/have known about my MLJ number since October, and some of them even saw a preview of it when I was running it after practices. RB was done and polished in a week, the week right after Ballroom Magic where we didn't have practices and the only people who saw it, outside of my dancers, were two officers who were in charge of the Friday Dances. 

If you compare the level of audience applause/cheering between the videos, you can even tell the RB crowd was better than the MLJ crowd. But another thing is that there were less people at the MLJ crowd compared to the RB crowd. Eh. Oh well. 

In the end though, I'm really proud of the people who were in my pieces, and I'm really thrilled with how they each turned out. It's amazing. 

But I still have one more piece I want to choreograph and get performed before I graduate. However I don't know if I'll have time to do so since it's pretty much crunch time for DAT studying...ugh.