does any one have a good song to do a ballet or jazz solo to?

Question

This girl is an advanced competition dancer and is twelve years old.

Answer 1

One Eyed One Horned Flying Purple People Eater.

(I'm not even kidding. It gets the audience's attention!)

Answer 2

I don't know the dance competition world, so I don't know whether your primary concern is a song that would be familiar, or one that would stand out. But I have a taste for the obscure, so, here are a couple more obscure things that (probably) no one will recognize, but might stand out.

In 1985, a pop group called 'a-ha' released an album called 'Hunting High and Low.' You may remember the single 'Take on Me,' but that's not what I'm suggesting. The title cut didn't stand a chance on radio because it's not very 'pop-y' and doesn't follow the standard ballad phrase structure, but it is a beautiful song that I think would lent itself to ballet.

In 1993, the Alan Parsons Project released an album called 'Try Anything Once.' There is an instrumental on it called 'Jigue,' with has at its heart an Irish jig-type melody on violin, but switches to an electric guitar counter melody. It has a nice solid beat and a unique sound.

There are also several possibilities on Mannheim Steamroller's 'Fresh Aire' series of albums (all instrumental, and varying tempos.)

Obviously, these might be a challenge to find, but I have them all and if you're curious about any, contact me. I'm sure if I scanned my collection, I could find even more obscure stuff that would be very danceable (jazz or ballet,) but I'd need more direction (mood, tempo, vocal/instrumental, etc.)

Another slightly less obscure track that might make a good jazz dance is the Lemur King's song (I Like to Move It, Move It!) from the movie 'Madagascar!'

ADDITION: My music player just shuffled a wild idea to mind: Will she be doing ballet & jazz numbers at the same competition? Aaron Copeland wrote a ballet called 'Rodeo,' from which most people know the piece 'Hoedown,' because it was the soundtrack for the 'Beef- It's What's for Dinner!' commercials a while back. Anyway; in the 70's, Emerson, Lake & Palmer rearranged that tune as a keyboard-driven hard rock piece at about double-time. If you consider it danceable, it might be interesting to use very different arrangements of the same tune for 2 different dances!

Answer 3

I like that song from the old navy commercial- its called Check It Out by Komeda and its a bonus track on their album Kokomemedada. Also I like the song a "Charmed Life" from a target commercial sometime back for a jazz number.

For ballet, I like the usual classical arrangements, you actually could use something like U2's Vertigo, or if you really want to be daring you could use a piece that Michelle Kwan skated to called "Gulistan Bayati Shiraz" composed by Fikrat Amirov.[available as a CD on the Olympia Explorer Series Label, OCD 490]. It may be hard to find, but the whoever's listening won't forget you.

Best of luck in all you do!

Answer 4

"Songbird" by Kenny G

"Scherezade" - the violin solo Rimski-Korsakov

"Vers La Flamme" by Scriabin

"Sketches of Spain" - Miles Davis

"My Funny Valentine" - Joe Pass

"Send in the Clowns" - Frank Sinatra

"Nuages" - Django Reinhardt

"Harlem Nocturne"

Answer 5

Jazz
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"Zero to hero" - Hercules (as in the disney movie)
"Sweet dreams (are made of these)"- Eurythimics
"Everytime We Touch"- Cascada
"Fighter"- Christina Aguilera
"Sunglasses at Night"-Corey Hart

Ballet
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"Another you"-Cascada
"Valley of Angels"-Bo Bice
"Music of the Night"- from The Phantom of the Opera
"I Have Nothing"- Whitney Houston
"I'm Not That Girl"- from the play Wicked

Answer 6

Hi Lily Hi Lily Hi Lo.

Answer 7

"All You Need is Love" from the Beatles. Great for ballet.

Answer 8

I would like to see a ballet danced to Chariots of Fire.

Answer 9

There are great semi-instrumentals by artists such as Adiemus, Yanni, or Clannad. LIsten and take your pick.

Answer 10

for ballet there is an operetta called the bird seller by william zeller or something zeller i did ballet to it