#i still know the choreo

[herewegobebe]

 TEN | 'Nightwalker' Choreography @MusicBank 240223

#ten #ten lee #nightwalker #wayv #nct #analook #yes i know .. another ten set #i admit to being a little obsessed with this song and choreo and his album #and before anyone asks - yes i'm still definitely a shinee blog #i just wanted to make this as the choreo is so cool #tw flashing #my.gifs

[milkbreadtoast]

guilty challenge doodle... LMFAOOO🏃🏻

#when the third wheel strikes back #twsb #섭남파업 #서브 남주가 파업하면 생기는 일 #(this was just practice first attempt... i want to draw cedjesschris doing it...🤧) #guilty challenge #(the guilty challenge is from taemin's new song btw... love u taemin...🫶) #idol au #btw realistically if yeseo did the challenge... i think he'd be too shy and do the modified ver #where u dont stick ur hand under ur shirt KFHDKN (cedric and chris do the original choreo✌️) #also i dont think idol yeseo would be the best dancer🫣 he makes up for it with his vocals and cute face tho...🤧 #like as an idol he'd be able to do the choreography.... but barely DJDHJD and there'd be a noticeable diff when u compare to cedchris🫡 #idol au yeseo means he'd at least have some physical fitness tho ndjfbd but he'd be one of those idols who hates working out #and has to get dragged to the gym by other jock members (cedchris)... #i still want to draw my cedjesschris idea but posting this on its own first cuz idk im impatient #btw idol yeseo would NOT have visible abs‼️ #cedric on the other hand.... well.... u know....🔥🔥 #my art #jung yeseo #jesse venetiaan

[toooliix]

hey bitches who like symbolism what if i told you mischa isnt in the ballad of jane doe choreo

#liix rambles #rtc #ride the cyclone #the ballad of jane doe #mischa bachinski #hi its me im bitches #what the fuck is mischa doing and WHERE the fuck is he during tbjd? #i know realistically mischa/gus is probably helping out with manning the flying machine plus symmetry with the choreo itself but like #what about an in universe reason?? #is he still under karnaks control during it??? idk its just fun to think abt #(note: this is only abt the 2016 off broadway ver bc thats what i always talk abt and that's what i know best)

[captaincleverusernamehere]

Sweeney Todd rehearsal out of context

#we learned literally 2/3 of God That’s Good and i still barely know what’s going on during those two thirds!!!! #but I got this lovely trio out of it so that’s great #we only have like one choreo rehearsal per song. that’s crazy #idk how I’m gonna learn all this PLUS Toby’s blocking/choreo for the songs I’ll be him in in the understudy show…… anyway yeehaw #Sweeney Todd #theater #musical theater #meme

[razzle-zazzle]

*looks at your tags* nice, nice—

PROSTETIC HEART?????

Sometimes you have an idea so so wild but with so much interesting thematic potential that you then have no choice but to try and figure out how to make it work 🤷‍♀️

Anyway 💅 still working on the how but basically the AU is as described: Branch's fleshy magic Troll heart is gone and in its place is a prosthetic one he made himself. Smth smth a Troll's music is their magic and their magic is their music and smth smth you can remove a Troll's magic by removing their heart (assuming they survive, which they normally wouldn't, but Branch is nice and insane and good at clinging onto life like that). So the AU focuses on the issues that arise from having a heart cobbled together from the materials he could find and the sort of disconnect from the world around him due to the loss of the heart he was born with. Again it doesn't make much sense but it's fun to think about so 🤷‍♀️

#ask zaz #beating heart au #??? maybe???? #anyway. still working out details but branch having to put extra effort into learning notes and dance choreo compared to other trolls #bc that stuff no longer comes naturally to him #and smth smth his singing sounding ''empty'' even when he hits every note perfectly bc. well. his body can't produce its own magic #his music doesn't affect the world around him the way other trolls' music does. he can't summon backing tracks and backup singers #from the flora and fauna #does poppy care? no that's her boyfie #also smth smth emotional regulation and how having a prosthetic heart would affect branch in that regard #yes i know the heart doesn't do that kinda thing irl but like. these are trolls i can get funky with their biology if i wanna #current idea for how branch loses his heart does involve a degree of self harm tho :[[[ i still need to refine it tho so who knows #but also. the thematic potential of branch cutting out his own heart‚ regardless of the reason‚‚‚ oughhhhhhh #idk if this au is all that interesting to anyone but me but idk i think it could be neat

[loftwinglullaby]

wow thank you so much

#this is aoa's official youtube. it has 20 million views. :') #also this is the performance version of 'ai wo choudai' and like. God the choreo is . ooughw :( #it is So bland. this is one of The Songs Ever to me. and the choreo is giving Nothing. #it's not even... a decent sexy choreo. bcus this is so rooted in the era of kpop girlies either give cute - sexy or badass #yeah i Know it released in 2016 but aoa stayed true to their roots to the end lol. and 2016 was the tide changing anywya. #honestly the trichotemy was pretty bad but i tended to enjoy anything that fell under the 'sexy' label. the BEst bangers came outta that #(exid i lvoe you. sistar i love you. stellar i love you. fiestar i lvoe you. hellovenus i lo) #and. oh i feel terrible saying this. i would rather have the miserable trichotomy than most groups giving #~feminism~ through the lens of misogyny. it's like. Feminism but make it marketable and tell young women this is Fine #also softcore queerbaiting. #like every Knew the trichotemy was misogynist af. i didn't have to read posts saying that blackpink gave women rights #okay actually. wait. people were genuinely saying things like hyuna's red were feminsit anthems weren't they. okay nvm #i think the bar for 'progressive' is so low in kpop that it is in hell. to be honest. #like we have and have had more progressive thigns in music videos and lyrics in mainstream kpop #mostly from soloists or solo work from band members #moonbyul's shutdown is. clearly about having sex with a woman. #brown eyed girls' abracadabra is okay.... YES the angling is steeped in male gaze #but having a clearly wlw relationship in the mv Was iconic for the era. still is mroe brazen than most mvs dare to be. #also that sistar one where they kill a man together and run off being fruity. #one mroe day! that one! #so yknow. shoutout to the actual icons. #loftwinglullaby rambles #kpop

[hooned]

apparently the snippet was not supposed to be that long [wtf sbs ?!?!] BUT DAMN THE CHOREO 🔥‼️ bomb i tell u a Hit she is a sure Hit 😭

#there are women on the video oof the hard delulu stans are not gonna like this #and yes i’m looking at the twitter stans i’m still mad haha #BUT GOOD GOD THE CHOREO ????? ARE WE SEEING THEM ????? WOW ?????? #i won’t even bother opening twitter i know i’ll just get pissed off #i talk too much & that's okay ♡ #engenes stop being weird about enha interacting with women thank you very much

[xcziel]

i am not kidding BLESS those jeans

if someone is somehow reading my blog and sharing last night's critique of the baggy pants vs choreo precision issue i would just like to say you are doing the work of the gods thank you SO much

#jeon jungkook #there is nothing i embrace more than an all-black wardrobe and the lines on this times square look are just *chef's kiss* #bless the piercings bless the tattoos bless the black palette is all i can say #i know it's too cold on an outdoor stage rn to do the bare arms but fck if that didn't make the choreo pop even harder #i wanna get a still from that one instant with his right arm gesturing right before The Shoulder Move #bc it's insanely hot - just the line of his extended tattoed arm and his shoulder like #it CANNOT be overstated how expressive his gestures are and how the sleeveless look really highlighted that #have i watched the mv a disgusting amount of times? i have indeed #i'm sorry it's just EVERYTHING i have been asking for from a pop song for so long #the BASS the live instruments THE BRASS SECTION .... the *BASS* #if you have followed me for more than two seconds you've probably run into me expounding on my 'horn theory' of good pop music lol #i.e. if you want a really good power hit pop song you need a goddamn brass section #evidence: the 70s and 80s. ... even beyonce knows this #but also funk/disco bass trumps everything else and i would kill to have an extended remix done by AN ACTUAL BAND #the current remixes don't add anything for me - i want an actual bass player going to town a la the disco extended plays of yore #maybe in the concert version ... kinda hoping jk takes inspo from yoongi's concert setup #i feel like that might have been part of the impetus behind recording with actual musicians #i can't believe that's so unusual these days - it's sad that i watched a reaction clip and the person was like #what sample is that?? what is that from?? #and i'm like yelling at the screen it's an actual band that's how it's *supposed* to be #also can i say i love how he (and all the maknae line now that i think of it) makes it so clear when he's singing and when it's #the backing track - like no lip syncing/pretending just sticking to the bts standards for live performance vs like music show #thinking on it part of it may be that like the rap line *can't* really coast over a backing track so then vocal line doesn't either #(i say maknae line only in reference to this last year's recent live performances bc there've been multiple from each of them) #and he's outside and it's cold - that is HARD on the vocal chords #most of your diva singers - not that jk is a diva but he does have the range of one - like mariah or ariana would never #do that to their voices - i think he's just used to being the indestructable bunny #he better have people babying him tonight and giving him hot soup and tea with honey and vitamin c and idk ginseng #having the humidifier going and getting as much rest as possible to keep healthy

[jungwookjins]

seoul drift is absolutely their most typical 4th gen song and choreo but by god it is a well-executed 4th gen song and choreo

#as far as their powerful choreos go i think i still prefer sage and asoiaf #but i’ll need to see the full cam of seoul drift to know for sure #but still #they did well #ennuitxt

[sanstropfremir]

you know what it's time for? end of year wrap up posts! and the first one up is....

fave choreos!!

runners' up

villain - trendz

i'm only going to include one trendz choreo on this list because otherwise they'd take up like four slots, but their debut choreo really set the bar for just how impressive their choreography was going to be. i'd encourage you to check out their other choreos: tnt, trauma, who, and clique.

stupid cool - dawn

it's the right mix of casual playing around and some difficult technique, and everyone looks like they're having a blast while performing. i feel like people forget that dawn is an extremely talented dancer because the everything else about him is very distracting, but this choreo is a great marriage of the goofy and serious in a way that very few idols are capable of

pose - kino

there's always gonna be one taemin clone on this list, but that's ok because sometimes they get it right, which is how i feel about kino's solo debut. i like that he went for a less popular taeminprint (day and night) and i think there was enough there that made it his own; kino is a good dancer and choreographer so that much was unsurprising to me.

doom du doom - p1harmony

p1harmony are one of the few groups to have a dancer with real freestyle skills, and they finally put them to use in this choreo. soul has a fun lil freestyle solo dance break and he changed it up for every performance. i'm no gonna link them all here but here's a few: 220722, 220726, 220728. plus it seems to be a theme with their choreos to climb on stuff (or at least it was for this cb, you can see it also in the black hole choreo), and i find that fun.

suit dance - onlyoneof

unsurprising an ooo choreo made it on here, they're a very strong dance group and although we haven't had many choreos from them this year due to the solo projects, suit dance was still one of the best of the year. excellent thematic and prop work, which you can see better in this stage. a little bit peeved they never put out a dance practice of it.

bad at love - tempest

like with a lot of groups on this list, you're going to notice that i had to pick just one choreo from their 2022 releases, bc there was a LOT of consistently good work from groups this year. i went with this bside from tempest's debut because it captures how fun their choreography is, although this could have just as easily been can't stop shining or bad news.

uh heung - dkz

the unflopping of dkz has been the biggest kpop cinderella story of the last few years, and they deserve it because their choreography has been equal parts great and stupid the whole time. uh heung is such a fun time with some really interesting formations, my fave is kyoungyoon being 'scared' of the tiger at the bridge. runner up slot for them is cupid, which is more on the stupid side, but it's so charming.

bound - key

i said i wanted a senior artist to bring back vogueing and i got what i wanted, thank u kibum.

creature - e'last

no prop choreo from e'last this year, but we did get this spectacular and spooky choreo for creature. excellent use of stillness to accentuate the predatory nature of the song, plus a point choreo move that involved the back, an under-utilized feature in kpop.

eyes on you - kangta

it's so so rare to see a modernized first gen choreo because very few of them are still active, and the ones that are that still do serious choreography are boa and rain (although we did get a new shinhwa choreo this year too, somehow their second cb about guns?), who have exceptional skills for the generation. so the fact that we got a whole new kangta choreo in 2022? a true gift. in first gen tradition this is not particularly technically difficult and it has a lot of movements typical of that style of kpop dancing, but he makes everything look so fluid in a way that younger more technically skilled idols fail to do when covering older choreographies.

faster + 2 baddies - nct 127

this one is a bit of cheat, but the faster choreo is meant to lead directly into the 2 baddies choreo and it's often used as the intro, plus there's a couple of repeating motifs in them, so i'm bundling them together. in typical 127 tradition, these choreos are fuckin weird and inventive, and i like how they're so prescriptive to their car themes. the gear turning member switching in faster makes my brain go brrr and 2 baddies has a ton of really fun and unusual formation switching that you don't get to see thanks to music show camerawork.

dice - onew

for someone who's not a very strong dancer, he does a great jobwith this choreo and the choreographer did a great job making pictures around him, rather than relying on him to provide the technical clarity. also like with the stupid cool choreography, this one looks like it's fun to perform for everyone involved.

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top ten

bring it on - oneus

oneus choreos always make my list because they consistently have some of the best and most interesting choreographies in the biz, and they're some of the strongest performers in the biz as well. bring it on is so full of energy and big movements and even though i've seen it dozens of times at this point i still get surprised by it. the intro goes hard as well, like all oneus intros do.

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sparkling - chungha

chungha always has gorgeous choreo and sparkling is no different. plus i am not immune to hair flips and also women.

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walking on the moon - tan

to be completely honest, this choreo is on here for one specific move, and that is the moon phase sequence at the beginning of the final chorus (3:50 in this video). i don't know how many times i've watched just that move and i could keep watching it forever. it's perfect. you can see it with camerawork here. the rest of the choreo is good too, it's nice to see a return to second gen style simple and iconic point choreography.

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louder - tan

next gen beastdols. that's it.

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heartburn - sunmi

once again sunmi comes back with an amazing choreography. i love her versatility in how she chooses to illustrate the themes in her work; last year it was dark through tail and this year it's light and playful in aesthetics but still heavy on the man-killing. we love to see it.

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devil - changmin

changmin was always one of the weaker tvxq dancers and was also never that interested in the technical aspects, so it makes sense that his solo choreography would focus less on being technically complex and more about emphasis on a character. the strength of the devil choreography relies on building this righteously corrupt preacher character and how the dancers move around him as congregants/demons that interact and mirror him. my favourite move is the mirrored windmill, especially when you see them in full costume where the backup dancers' faces are covered.

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guerrilla + halazia - ateez

i'm gonna cheat again for this one, but in all fairness to myself, they dropped halazia on literally the last day of the year and i genuinely cannot decide if i like it more than guerrilla or not. so they can share third place. i was not that impressed with their choreo from 2021, but they really stepped up their game this year in almost every way.

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parallel universe - nine.i

in the second year in a row, a rookie group is placing at second. but there were such strong turnouts from rookies this year, so it's unsurprising that more than one group made my list. i've talked many times about how much i love this choreography, so i won't expound too much on it again, but for this complex and unusual of a choreography to be for a debut and nothing nine.i has done since this has disappointed me so far. if you want to learn more about the details of the choreo, they talk about all the motifs in the performance commentary video!

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birthday - ten

i hope you all guessed that this was going to be the top one because there was no other option. this choreo is fucking incredible and there's no other idol that can do what ten does with his body. in a year with no taemin and many taemin clones he brought something that was unique to him and something only he could do, which is exactly what you should be doing as an artist. i don't even have anything else to say about this, just that it's the kind of thing that i want to be seeing from solo artists and i'm very glad that ten stepped up the plate and swung for the fences in ambition and creativity and desire to make something that embodied him.

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that's a wrap on choreos for 2022! not a boring year at all even though both taemin and kai were absent. it's nice to see that the younger gens are starting to get creative with the types of choreography that we're seeing, there was a lot of variety this year and i'm hoping it continues into 2023!

#end of year posts #kpop dance #best of 2022 #there are 100+ videos on my choreos playlist i am impressed i made it down to like 25 #tbf a chunk of those are doom du doom stages so i was keeping track of them but STILL #ones that barely missed out were chase (minho) and phantom (wayv) but they were released too late in the year!! #i can only make accomodations for one (1) late entry and that was halazia #please know i do still love them though #text

[putonmyfavoriteshow]

Tini never being too cool to relive her Violetta days 🥺

#tini #ser mejor #violetta #i love that she still knows the choreo :') #anytime i've seen her talk about the show she's all smiles #it's so sweet especially considering how popular she is outside of it now that she can completely ignore it #(this was from yesterday 10-12-2022)

[yououghtaknow]

girls love me for my in-depth knowledge of sheik/sater’s spring awakening.

#making a PLAN tomorrow is a spring awakening INTENSIVE #we are rereading all three versions of the show i own. rewatching as many versions as i can. listening to my almeida audio. #we are doing vocal rehearsals. we are acting out the scenes. we are doing stretches to prepare for choreo. #i will be okay if i do not get into the show i will fully survive and be okay with just being an audience member. BUT #i KNOW this show like the back of my hand and i know i'm fucking good in it. also i'm a diversity hire so that would slay. #i am so excited i genuinely don't know if i can fall asleep. i feel like i've been electrocuted. #what if you had a really good day and then got really good news and the horrors are Still There but blinders are on baby!!!!! #no thoughts head full just spring awakening.

[theseulgis]

thank you for the recording of dead man runnin, this is more content than i ever expected and i can listen to her live vocals without sm’s lame ass forcing her to lipsync

#now if they ALSO release the recording of 28 reasons i'll scream and- yeah #also YES i know pre recording helps because they have to handle the choreo #but a few years back we still heard idols sing and i miss that era

[mobiused]

snakenet faking us out on the results was soooo fucking cruel I almost died. Queen is Na looked so good. Actually, I really felt like the other two performances weirdly didn’t do a good job of showing off the dance skills? Like they were so flashy and full of effects that it distracted from their actual dance moves. Whereas Queen is Na was scaled back enough that the focus was purely on their expressions and execution of their moves.

Agreed! Need to rewatch them on more than 240p on work wifi in a small window but yeah, I kinda get frustrated when a dance-focused performance whips out props like. That defeats the purpose of a DANCE focused performance. Nobody is here to assess how well you can throw a rope around or put on a mask. And aside from Hikaru's standout moments I felt that Purr was pretty unmemorable. Tell Me Now was jampacked with exceptionally technical choreography - as expected from Monika... she was really a blessing on these guys

#and im still mad at those 4 for not choosing it #I know you guys hate sex appeal (yass asexual) but it was so obviously the best choreo

[idontwanttospoiltheparty]

while I'm streaming TMBG, here's a story: when I was in elementary school there was this very cool party that happened on the last night before Christmas break at school that involved a talent show type thing, which I always participated in, and it's legit kind of funny that my gen x parents played their fave band from their 20s to me so often that, at the fine old age of nearly-eight in 2006, I decided to force a friend to figure out a choreo with me to the song New York City by wacky nerd rock duo They Might Be Giants

#also it was switzerland #literally NO ONE my age but me knew these songs dgfkjhgsfkjlghsjklgdfs #i still know some of the choreo……… #also a lot of their childrens song imprinted on me despite my being too old for them by the time i listened to them #also unironically LOVE their science album still <3 #also back in the days of my ipod nano they used to have these puppet show like.... webisodes for their childrens albums? #and id watch them on that tiny tiny screen #fiona.docx

[namchyoon]

okay but why did 2010s bollywood songs go so hard my god the rent was DUE

#on my nostalgia trip again and truly all of those songs have crack in them i just know #the way i still remember not just lyrics but the CHOREO ...... left a mark in history