Dance Fitness Choreography: Essential Tips for Instructors

Ready to Enhance Your Dance Fitness Classes with Advanced Techniques and Choreography?

PURE ENERGY GO’s Label Manager and Dance Instructor, Nikkie Riozzi, shares exclusive insights and recommended protocols for Go Dance Volume 3, an album crafted to help instructors like you enhance your members’ experience.

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How to choreograph your single track dance workouts using Go Dance Volume 03:

Each track will have a 16-32 count intro before the first 32-count phase kicks in. Then, each track is in 32-count phases ie: Verse, Chorus and Freestyle section.

1. Intro — These intros provide time for you to get to your teaching spot or brief your class on the starting position and dance style. Use this intro to set the tone of your session.

2. The Drop (A.K.A The Bounce) — When the track begins to build in energy, you can make your movements bigger. This section consists of dance/hard house rave-style tracks.

3. The Verse — These 64-counts can be either 2 x 32 or 1 x 32 repeated on the left and right.

4. The Chorus — Inject fresh moves into this 64-count section.

5. Freestyle — This section provides your class with time to recover, or add in another section to maintain the intensity! That’s why we call it the Freestyle section — do what you works for you here.

Nikkie’s Recommended Protocols: 

Let’s take a look at how you can structure your class using specific tracks from Go Dance Volume 3:

Track 1: Domino

(Latin / Salsa)

— Intro: 2 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse: 3 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 1 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse: 3 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 1 x 32 counts

— Final Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts

— Finish

Track 2: Poison

(Latin/ Salsa)

— Intro: 1 x 32 counts

— Voice Intro: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse / The Drop: 4 x 32 counts (2 x 32 count block that repeats on the other leg)

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (Intro)

— Voice Intro: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse / The Drop: 4 x 32 counts (2 x 32 count block that repeats on the other leg)

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Voice Intro: 1 x 32 counts

— Finish

Track 3: I Take The Weight Off My Shoulders

(60s)

— Intro: 32 counts

Building choreography section: 2 x 32 counts (use this to intro moves and styling)

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Outro (fade out)

Track 4: New Day

(Pop/Rock)

— Intro: 16 counts

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts 

— Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts 

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Outro: 1 x 32 counts

Track 5: Sparkle In Your Eyes

(Pop)

— Intro: 2 x 32 counts (vocal from Verse)

Extra build intro: 1 x 32 counts (repetitive when we were 13th, repetitive movement)
Building: 1 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse 1: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse 2: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts

— Intro: 2 x 32 counts (vocal from Verse)
Extra build intro: 1 x 32 counts (repetitive when we were 13th, repetitive movement)

— Building: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse 1: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse 2: 2 x 32 counts

— Finish

Track 6: What You Do To Me

(Funk)

— Intro: 16 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (guitar solo)

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (Sax solo)

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (guitar solo)

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (sax solo)

— Verse: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

Track 7: Portraits

(Old Skool, Hip Hop)

— Intro: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse 1: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 1 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (piano solo)

— Verse 2: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse 3: 1 x 32 counts (Portraits Vocal)

— Chorus: 1 x 32 counts

— Verse 3: 1 x 32 counts (Portraits Vocal)

— Verse 4: 2 x 32 counts

— Verse 3: 1 x 32 counts (Portraits Vocal)

— Finish

Track 8: Touch The Sky

(Rave)

— Intro: 1 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus low: 1 x 32 counts (‘touch the sky’)

— Chorus Build: 1 x 32 counts (‘touch the sky’)

— Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts (rave section)

— Verse: 1 x 32 counts (‘oh baby’ vocal)

— Freestyle: 1 x 32 counts (90s piano house section)

— Chorus low: 1 x 32 counts (‘touch the sky’)

— Chorus Build: 1 x 32 counts (‘touch the sky’)

— The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus / The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts (rave section)

— Finish

Track 9: My Sweetheart

(Drum & Bass)

— Intro: 16 counts into 16 building counts

— The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts (2nd 32 has higher energy)

— The Drop: 4 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

— Freestyle: 2 x 32 counts

— The Drop: 2 x 32 counts

— Chorus: 2 x 32 counts

Track 10: Demons in the Dark

(Soul – for recovery)

— Un-phrased Intro: Piano

— Verse: Male singing stretch sequences

— Chorus (‘demons in the dark’)

— Piano:  Transition to different body parts

— Chorus (‘demons in the dark’)

— Harmonies: Transition to different body parts

— Verse: Female singing stretch sequences

— Chorus (‘demons in the dark’)

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