Hercules Muses Medley

This art that I found on Youtube was the perfect collaboration project between music and dance. This piece was created between vocalists, a voice arranger, and a choreographer. 

These individuals did a great job at recreating the music from the Walt Disney film, " Hercules". They added a gospel feel to the music and gave it more flavor and it was more enjoyable than the original. The voice arrangement was very well written and executed. Also, the choreography is very realistic for a live performance and can be used as such. I am very impressed with what I saw and I hope to see more in the future.

The importance of a clean music edit

      When editing music, you don't want it to be choppy. Imagine if you are performing and the song is going to transition to another part of the song or even if it's coming to an end, you don't want a unexpected stop.
   
      It would be helpful if when you are using a music editing software such as Garageband or Logic, that you use the automation tool that is located under the mix tab on the top of the screen. The track automation will allow the user to create nodes, which are little dots that allow you to pick where you want to start your fade out. Fade outs/ins help give smoother transitions in music and overall help make your project look more professional.

Intimacy between dance and music

When most think of music and dance, they think of how one just hears rhythm and just moves along to it.  But no one realizes that when a dancer is moving with that rhythm they are connecting the emotion that they get from the music to it. This is why there are so many subgenres of dance, especially when dancers take movements and techniques from a genre and make their own spin on it.

Which leads me to talk about musicality, this is something that is very important for a dancer to have. Musicality is basically knowing the music and being able to interpret what the dancer hears to the best of their abilities through movement.  Having is ability helps improve the excitement of choreography and accent the music that the choreography is being performed to.