How do you choreograph aerial silks/hoop routines to music when your timing isn’t always consistent?
Hey everyone! I’ve been doing aerial silks and hoop for a little over a year now, and I really want to start putting together full routines to music for both.
So far I’ve picked my songs and started mapping out moves, poses, drops, etc. to different parts of the music. But now that I’m actually trying to do the routine, I have so many questions 😭
First, how do you guys ACTUALLY choreograph a routine? I have zero dance background, so right now I’m basically like “lyric happens → change pose” or “big beat → do a drop” lol. It technically matches the music, but sometimes it feels kind of robotic. How do you make everything flow and actually look like a performance rather than just a bunch of skills timed to a song?
Timing is also confusing me. Sometimes the same skill takes me 5 seconds, and another time it takes 10 (such as having to invert twice cuz I got stuck first try lol). How do you choreograph around that?
And if you realize mid-routine that you’re behind the music, what do you actually do? Skip a pose? Speed up a transition? Just accept that you missed that musical moment and keep going?
Basically, how do I go from “here is a sequence of aerial skills that matches the song” to something that actually feels fluid and choreographed?
Any tips for a first-time aerial choreographer would be very appreciated! :)