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This lesson we started working on Santa Fe, which I was asked to choreograph a section for during the lesson. This was quite difficult as I had not watched the song and was not sure what to do, so I watched the Broadway version. Although they do a dance it is pretty simple but big movements compiled together, so I tried to recreate my own version trying to stay with quite a contemporary feel. I found it difficult to make it not too 'dancey' as most of the people doing it are not dancers, so I had to simplify some of the steps after choreographing the section. I think with practice it will look good as it is simple, they just need to go with the flow of it and feel the music as the steps are quite slow and need to be exaggerated so they go with the easy, calm beat of 'Santa Fe'.

After watching the video of the dance there a few things I want to change to make it look more natural and easier for the non-dancers as it does not look quite right.