From personal dance videos of individuals to live recordings of popular performances, YouTube has provided an outlet for the dance community to interact like never before. Created in February 2005, YouTube is a video-sharing site on which users can view, share, and upload videos. Quoted from the site, YouTube "provides a forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small."
True to its word, many different individual dancers and dance groups use YouTube as a medium for sharing their original choreography to others through the Internet.
Type in almost any song followed by the word "choreography" and you're almost sure to find a video of some kind of performance. There's an infinite amount of dance videos on YouTube, as people add more and more pieces of their own everyday.
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Many different dance companies and groups have utilized YouTube in the past years. Movement Lifestyle, a choreography management company founded by Shaun Evaristo, is just one of those many dance groups that has taken advantage of YouTube to share their works with a broad user base. A group that "focuses on providing help for upcoming and established choreographers to provide them with the tools and aid that they need to help them improve their respective careers," Movement Lifestyle includes many world-class choreographers. Both the MovementLifestyle channel and its individual dancers often post videos of new choreography to YouTube.
Here is just one video from MovementLifestyle that was a collaboration between dancers from different teams.
Tony Tran
May 17, 2012