I think the concept was really clever and the music is wonderful. However the choreography and the dancers not so much. This is definitely not an advanced ballet routine. I don't know much about the competition but it looked like they stuck people in for numbers purposes, one girl in particular didn't know what she was doing then was bouncing around in the attitude hold. I think thats why the choreo wasn't difficult. They had some amazing dancers in there but there was some in there that you could clearly see don't take ballet or at least not often. Shoulders up by ears and semi pointed feet, some of the formations didn't help either. Then you had some girls with beautiful turn outs and lines. Its sad, had they dropped a few girls it would have been much cleaner.
Thanks for your feedback, I thought you may find this information useful to know - These dancers are all university students and are dancing recreationally alongside studying their full-time degrees, masters or PhD's. The running of this club, including organising this 2-day competition, is student led (including majority of our coaches for these routines) so they do this also voluntarily on top of their degrees and dance classes. This competition is for all Universities across the UK with dance clubs and societies to compete against each other and often welcomes 20+ Universities and 1000+ dancers. Loughborough is the best University in the world for sport subjects & has an international reputation for University sport, so attracts a lot of students athletes, with 80% of our 18,000 student population taking part in sport regularly. With 60+ sports to cover as well as National Governing Bodies stationed on campus, our facilities are almost always at maximum capacity, which is why dance are only able to allocate 1 hour for each class per week between October to early-March when this competition is held, which excludes Christmas break (less than 20 hours in total per routine, including audition period, time taken up by warm-ups etc). So you are correct that we do not practise as often as others might, only once per week. We have 9 styles in our club & many dancers are in multiple genres, so may be competing in dances that are not their dominant style or are entirely new to them (eg.Latin).The girl you are mentioning lost her balance in this particular performance, it is not reflective of her overall ability and has proven in other performances she is a talented performer including in another Advanced Ballet here: ruclips.net/video/pmHJBD0Avoo/видео.html and Advanced Jazz here: ruclips.net/video/dxQy1WfLpp0/видео.html as just two examples. Our competition encourage sports-man-like behaviour at all times, from our club and all others attending & as fellow dancers, we appreciate that every dancer has slip ups especially under pressure, this one just happened to be on camera. We have ballet across 3 levels and people are placed appropriately, it’s not a matter of numbers as our competition has only a 6 person minimum entry for all dances. Hopefully this sheds some light on the things you have raised in your comment.
that seemed oddly simple
I think the concept was really clever and the music is wonderful. However the choreography and the dancers not so much. This is definitely not an advanced ballet routine. I don't know much about the competition but it looked like they stuck people in for numbers purposes, one girl in particular didn't know what she was doing then was bouncing around in the attitude hold. I think thats why the choreo wasn't difficult. They had some amazing dancers in there but there was some in there that you could clearly see don't take ballet or at least not often. Shoulders up by ears and semi pointed feet, some of the formations didn't help either. Then you had some girls with beautiful turn outs and lines. Its sad, had they dropped a few girls it would have been much cleaner.
Thanks for your feedback, I thought you may find this information useful to know - These dancers are all university students and are dancing recreationally alongside studying their full-time degrees, masters or PhD's. The running of this club, including organising this 2-day competition, is student led (including majority of our coaches for these routines) so they do this also voluntarily on top of their degrees and dance classes. This competition is for all Universities across the UK with dance clubs and societies to compete against each other and often welcomes 20+ Universities and 1000+ dancers.
Loughborough is the best University in the world for sport subjects & has an international reputation for University sport, so attracts a lot of students athletes, with 80% of our 18,000 student population taking part in sport regularly. With 60+ sports to cover as well as National Governing Bodies stationed on campus, our facilities are almost always at maximum capacity, which is why dance are only able to allocate 1 hour for each class per week between October to early-March when this competition is held, which excludes Christmas break (less than 20 hours in total per routine, including audition period, time taken up by warm-ups etc). So you are correct that we do not practise as often as others might, only once per week.
We have 9 styles in our club & many dancers are in multiple genres, so may be competing in dances that are not their dominant style or are entirely new to them (eg.Latin).The girl you are mentioning lost her balance in this particular performance, it is not reflective of her overall ability and has proven in other performances she is a talented performer including in another Advanced Ballet here: ruclips.net/video/pmHJBD0Avoo/видео.html and Advanced Jazz here: ruclips.net/video/dxQy1WfLpp0/видео.html as just two examples. Our competition encourage sports-man-like behaviour at all times, from our club and all others attending & as fellow dancers, we appreciate that every dancer has slip ups especially under pressure, this one just happened to be on camera. We have ballet across 3 levels and people are placed appropriately, it’s not a matter of numbers as our competition has only a 6 person minimum entry for all dances.
Hopefully this sheds some light on the things you have raised in your comment.
@@loughboroughdancecompetiti3446 interesting, thank you.