Choreography Articles

Looking for information on choreography? Below you will find current and professional choreography articles that you can use in your classes.

Jazz Up Your Warm-Up With Dance Moves

by Patrick Goudeau
Warm-ups can be boring and are often overlooked because we can hardly wait to teach that brand-new combination or hot new move! But with a little time and effort, a really good warm-up can create amazing energy and set the tone for the rest of class. So how do you take something that seems so mundane and add a little soul and spice to it?

015: Drums Alive™ Instructor Training Program

Come and be inspired by the acclaimed Drums Alive Instructor Training Program. You’ll learn the theory and application of this unforgettable and inspirational group exercise experience. This full-day training will explore sound and movement therapy using drumming and music. Examine the locomotor skills required to drum your way to a distinctive class design. Finally, a powerful group exercise format that is appropriate for ALL populations!

A Formula for Fitness & Fun

by Shannon Fable
Millions of people around the world participate in prechoreographed group fitness programs. The popularity of these classes can’t be ignored, and the instructors must be doing something right. A debate is currently waging as to which instructors are better—those leading the prechoreographed programs or the die-hard “freestylers.” While prechoreographed content may garner differences of opinion,...

Sample Class: 3, 2, 1 Dance

by Petra Kolber
So you think you can’t dance? You don’t need to be a professional dancer to teach a fun, heart-pumping, soul-soaring dance-based class. If you can walk, you can dance—it takes three easy moves. The only differences are style and a touch of attitude. Also, if you don’t believe that you can dance, how can you instill confidence in your students? If you help them believe that they can dan...

Jacki Sorensen

Jacki Sorensen is credited with originating one of the most significant fitness movements in history: aerobic dance—the combination of fitness and dance that swept the world in the ‘70s before evolving into the multifaceted group exercise classes of today. Thirty-eight years later, Sorensen still lives and breathes choreography, crea...

Changing Lives, One Move at a Time

by Mary Monroe
Jacki Sorensen is credited with originating one of the most significant fitness movements in history: aerobic dance—the combination of fitness and dance that swept the world in the ‘70s before evolving into the multifaceted group exercise classes of today. Thirty-eight years later, Sorensen still lives and breathes choreography, creating over 150 routines a year for h...

Real-World Step

by Eve Fleck, MS
It’s the first day of the convention, and you walk into th...

The "Perform or Create" Continuum...

by Alexandra Williams, MA
Group fitness instructor #1 picks out a favorite step CD, thinks of a few base choreography patterns on the way to the club, and then teaches a freestyle class that h...
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