Blog Post 1

While I was reading chapter one of the textbook, Understanding Genres, I realized that many of the components and working parts included in this process are also included in something I am very familiar with, dance. Exactly how compositions have genres to classify them, dances and choreography do as well. When a choreographer decides to choreograph a dance they first consider their audience much like a writer would because they want the dance to entertain and interest the audience not bore them. A choreographer would also have a purpose for creating a new dance wether it is an intrinsic desire or a desire of someone else. Often times, when a dance is completed and performed, the purpose of it is to convey a message that plays on the audiences emotions which is a rhetorical technique writers use also called Pathos. Another common component is style, just as authors communicate different types of style unique to themselves and their composition, choreographers do as well. The type of choreography chosen determines how the choreographer wants to communicate their message by using either intricate or basic moves, slow or fast pasts, serious or happy tones, the music paired with the dance, etc. Design in both writing and dance offers a visual aesthetic to the audience which if done correctly is appealing. In dance, formations, costumes, and performance venues are big contributors to design just as the addition of pictures and visual aspects of a writing such as font type, size, and color are for compositions. The sources of a composition, those who provided information to develop the writing, could be compared to the dancers that actually perform the piece the choreographer created. I found chapter one to be an important lesson that could be applied when writing, dancing, or creating anything really. By Understanding genre and following the criteria to understanding it essentially ensures you produce the best result of whatever you are creating no matter what it may be.