How to get inspiration for choreography?

I've come to a point where I can't think up any more choreography for my hip hop routine. Normally when I'm looking for inspiration I free style but now I've noticed that I'm continually repeating the same steps. It's kind of frustrating that I've run into a non-creative streak.

It's annoying because often when I'm on the bus listening to a song I've heard a hundred times before I get really good ideas but then I just forget them.
How exactly can I think up choreography?

take a break when this happens then come back to it later you may think of something when u are talking the break i went to a convention and we did moves like row the boat so maybe try to think of average things u do in normal day life and make them hip hop like dip a cookie in milk and make it look hip hop it may really work our for you in the long run good luck

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5 Responses to “How to get inspiration for choreography?”

  1. marysylvie2000, on February 26th, 2009 at 9:35 pm Said:

    The best thing is not to force your mind. It is strange, but I advise you for a kind of trance, where you let go of the stress, relax. And just be silent and open. This is when and where, normally, we find inspiration, solution, ideas. I hope I helped. Good luck!
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  2. MickyDISASTER, on February 26th, 2009 at 10:16 pm Said:

    try mixing different moves together. Like sometimes a dance isn't about the Choreograpghy it's about how the cori is directed or what emotion it's danced as. like youu can have the most simply cori but depending how you do it or direct it, it could look aboslutly amazing or could look really bad. so just try playing with the steps you already have.
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  3. Ellen, on February 26th, 2009 at 10:35 pm Said:

    im in the process of choreographing my solo contemporary dance and i have got to the point where i cant think of any more choreography that i havent used as well, it is frustrating. sometimes to help me out i look on youtube for inspiration.

    good luck =]
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  4. missmusic, on February 26th, 2009 at 11:11 pm Said:

    go in a room with only you and the music and no other distractions….

    listen to the song [over and over if you have to]… while doing this, try to imagine how would like to have your dance like… you want it to be girly hip hop, or masculine hip hop, and stuffs like that…

    then you can just try to do some moves. you shouldn't care that it might look silly or too simple at first, but you can never know that it might look good when you put all the moves together…

    just try and experiment… good luck!!!!
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  5. cupcake<333, on February 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm Said:

    take a break when this happens then come back to it later you may think of something when u are talking the break i went to a convention and we did moves like row the boat so maybe try to think of average things u do in normal day life and make them hip hop like dip a cookie in milk and make it look hip hop it may really work our for you in the long run good luck
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