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- Jul 11, 2003
As you can see every skater, coach and choreographer approaches their method of relaying the choreography to the skater differently. I remember particularly learning set-patteren ice dances - although these are usually drawn out on paper I just watched the other skaters and also my coach (pro in those days) would teach us parts of the dance as we went along. Then we would put it all together. I also remember learning routines for club shows. Pretty much the same thing - the coach would go through the routine with us step by step and voila! we would know it by the time the show was to go on.good question.
Interesting that the choreographers must know the style of the skater before hand. In ballet, the choreography is already laid down. It is up to the dancer to do something with it. I think that's the difference between amateurs and pros.
Even in a Ballanchine ballet, like Emeralds, with no story to help the dancer, one will get different interpretations from different ballerinas to the Faure music.