Is choreography more important than dance skills ? - Page 2

Both are important. Good dancers can look bad with poor choreography and even so-so dancers look good with the right choreography.

I think good dancing skills are important than choreography.

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil

I think good dancing skills are important than choreography.

Even if the choreography is "bad", the dancer will be able to portray his dance in an elegant manner IF he has excellent dancing skills. Even a simple basic piece of choreography can be portrayed in a beautiful way if the person's dancing skills are good.

It's not the same case when the choreography's good and the dancer lacks skills. A beautiful choreography can be murdered if the person has poor dancing skills.

BTW, Summer ji, I think emotions are a part of dancing skills?? Without emotions, a chunk of dance routine can look lifeless = poor quality dance.

Yes Angel ji, facial expressions and emotions tells everything too.

Originally posted by: Summer3

It seems that elimination happens not because the dancing skill is lacking but because of wrong decisions and uninteresting choreography, story lines, music etc

What do yo think is most important ? I notice sometimes the contestants are not able to showcase their talents.

They have to make an important choice to stay in the competition.

They should know what is their strong areas and capitalize on it.

PLease vote or comment.

Originally posted by: akanna

I think both are important, as they have a correlation to each other. With no good choreography, dancing skills will go waste, and without good dancing skills, a goodchoreography will look quite weak! Rather than the concept, choice of song and apt steps and transitions are more relevant for the choreography. It looks bad any time if one of the partners has to stand doing nothing even if only for a few seconds...

Yes quite true. Good choreography helps to make a dancer look far better too and give them an edge.
Most dancers are not strong in all areas so they have to be careful in a competition like this.

its definitely a mixture of both dance skills and choreography

great choregraphy enhances ones dance skills =)

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Not being able to showcase talent - at times this could be sheer bad-luck if, they'reteamed with amismatched mentor/choreographer.
Yes X factor is basically skill, personality etc and some are simply gifted.
As competition gets tougher everything counts.

skills + choreography balances it out

Originally posted by: shivani003

<font color="#0000ff">Definitely both are equally important. The choreography should be on par and its execution should be just as good.</font>

Yes these days choreographers are getting greater attention. Their creative ideas makes a great diff.