Master figure skating choreographer Chris Conte discusses how he builds higher level skating programs. This video picks up where he left off in his discussion of the tools of a traveling choreographer and building low level skating programs. In this video, Chris talks about higher level programs and helping give skaters a competitive edge in the second set of marks (component scores) in the IJS.
Chris explains that there are basically 3 types of programs.
1. Abstract program – no story, no impression of a story, just movement to music
2. Concept program – some kind of concept related to music selection, where choreographed movements are related to the concept
3. Storybook program – attempt to tell a story, start to finish through a program, through music and movement
There’s a TON of great info in this video for figure skating choreographers and figure skating coaches that choreograph their own skaters’ programs.
One response to “Figure Skating Choreography for Advanced Skaters – Part 1 (Chris Conte)”
Just as an fyi to anybody thinking about trying the music editing software mentioned here from http://www.magix.com, I downloaded one of the trial versions and it put all kinds of advertising/search toolbars/things that pop up telling me to let it clean my computer,changed my homepage to Bing, and more junk. I was able to get rid of most of it but not this “WhiteSmoke New Customized Web Search” that has taken over where I had yahoo. Might be a good program, but I would recommend buying the disc.