The Art of Being a Great Choreographer
An 8-week virtual program for seasoned professionals and first-time choreographers ready to elevate their skills and define their unique, creative style.
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Led by renowned choreographer, 2X World Salsa Champion, and coach to some of the world's most iconic dancers, Anya Katsevman, this 8-week intensive experience will show you how to tap into your unique, creative process and teach you how to create a powerful, musical choreography to any piece of music or sound.
The program will focus on Latin dance genres of music, but the information and knowledge you learn during this course will help you develop dynamic choreography for any musical style or dance genre you choose.
At the end of the program, you'll have a robust understanding of what makes a choreography successful, how to identify these elements, and how to tap into your creative centers so you can produce high-quality work for yourself and others.
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Talk To AnyaWhat makes a choreography successful?
Why do some pieces capture your heart, soul, and attention, while others fall flat?
How do you build a choreography to showcase a soloist vs. a couple vs. a group?
How do you create a captivating, musical routine to any piece of music?
How It Works
The Art of Being a Good Choreographer is an on-demand, virtual program.
All participants in the program receive weekly homework assignments and personal feedback from Anya. Each participant will also take a practice exam during Weeks 7 & 8 of the program: You will choose a specific piece of music to create choreography to and be evaluated on your work, with the opportunity to correct yourself and do better in the moment, so that you can maximize your growth as a choreographer and learn the most during this experience.
In addition to one-to-one guidance and feedback from Anya throughout the program, you will also receive support and community via a private Facebook group where you can ask questions, share your experience, and request
additional feedback on your assignments.
Need Some More Info?
Book a Complimentary 15 minute call with Anya to discuss whether this is the right course for you!
Talk To AnyaWho is this course for?
How will we choose the pieces we choreograph to during the program?
I'm curious about Anya's own creative and choreography process. Will she share that during the program?
The Curriculum
Week 1: What is a Good Routine?
We will begin by Breaking down choreographies, looking at what makes them good, what makes them bad, and how can they be better.
We will work on identifying the responsibility of the choreography instead of the dancer. We will learn tools that include structure, musical ideas, spacing, audience response and format to help formulate a good routine
Week 2: Understanding How to Work With the Music and be Musical with Choreography
In this week we will apply the tools to help us create good choreography. We will work with music theory, staging, spacing, effects and events within movement and music. I will teach you how to properly utilize all of the resources that make a good routine.
Week 3: How Do I Come Up with an Idea?
This week we will dive deep into creativity, what is it and where it comes from, and how can you have it with and without inspiration.
We will talk about commonly made mistakes and good practices needed to enhance and tap into your creative centers. We will apply your creativity into choreography building.
Week 4: How to Customize a Routine for Yourself & Others
We will talk about tools needed for monetizing your choreography skills and satisfying customers.
We will identify different nuances in choreography, for example:
- What is a good competition routine vs performance?
- How is staging a show for a theater different from a congress and so on?
- How do we create for a solo vs a couple vs a team?
Week 5: How to Manage Your Talent and Develop Your Style
In this week we will uncover how to manage your talent and develop your style. How can you remain relevant for many years? How can you produce good material without growing stale or copying others? How can you fully develop your own styles? We will cover all these questions and more.
Week 6: Dynamics and How They Impact Choreography
In this week we will learn energy dynamics, typically expressed in good performers. When you have a good understanding of dance dynamics and accents, you can enhance movements to create different choreography impactful moments.
Understand the ebbs and flow and how to create it in your body and use it for choreography.
We will work with personal and musical intonations and use it for choreography creation and interpretation.
Week 7: Practice Exam
Each person will be asked to choose a piece of music and use their new tools to create something to it. The routine you make will represent you and be made for you to your own choice of music.
It will be shorter than a full-length piece, so that during the class we can go over your process and your product together. I will also personally help you refine your process.
Week 8: Final Live Choreography Challenge
For our final session together, I will assign a piece of music and intention for everyone to create to and challenge you to create for the given task. During the class we will go over your process and your product, and I will refine your progress through my feedback.
Two-time world champion dancer, world renowned Salsa dancer, teacher of teachers, and maker of champions, Anya Katsevman is truly a force to be reckoned with.
She has coached more world champion dancers—and helped more instructors build thriving dance businesses—than anyone in the industry.
With credits that include ABC's Dancing with the Stars and Broadway's Burn the Floor, dancing with the King of Salsa Mr. Eddie Torres, as well as live performances for El Gran Combo, Gilberto Santa Rosa, and even former President Barack Obama, Katsevman's movement is the embodiment of sensuality, grace, and power.
But her true power lies in her unmatched ability to see her students' potential and help them reach goals far beyond their wildest dreams. She breathes passion, confidence, and unrivaled knowledge into each and every coaching, helping instructors and artists overcome deep seated fears, reach their highest pinnacle, build new physical capabilities, and continue educating a new generation of Latin dancers.
Hunter Houde, Rising Star Salsa World Champion, Star of Carmen: To Havana and Back
If I could say just one thing about Anya it would be that I have never met someone with such a thorough understanding of partner dancing and such a keen ability to help people execute properly. It is as if the partner gods told her all of the secrets of how our body works so she can help you bring your vision to life. You will not find anyone as loyal, dependable and professional as this woman. A must have for anyone serious about taking their dancing to the next level.
Magna Gopal, www.magnagopal.com
Anya is one of the fiercest dancers I know who's got a presence that can't be ignored. She's clean, technical and beautiful in both her dancing and her teaching. She's always one of the instructors I refer to dancers because of the wealth of information she has to offer.
