Women Floor Music Debate

[gymnast17]

I need some tie-breaking votes for my floor music next season! My current floor music is by Lindsey Sterling. I really love the “Sugar Plum Fairy” option but I’ve proven to myself that I’m not the best lyrical dancer.

Option 1: Sugar Plum Fairy by Lindsey Sterling


Option 2: Dance the Night Away by Dua Lipa

 

[Mthegymqueen]

Option 2 seems pretty repetitive and is weirdly cut in some places, I like the 1st option better

 

[GymnastPotterhead]

I definitely prefer the first one too. I'm not the biggest fan of well known songs as floor music and as mthegymqueen said it's quite repetitive. The first one on the other hand is something I can already envision beautiful choreo to, but I don't know your preferences or style so it's your decision at the end of the day

 

[JessSyd]

The first one.

I don’t know how artistry is judged there, but in Australia, the second one would be risking a ‘background music’ deduction because there isn’t a lot of variation in it to interpret in the choreography.

The dance of the sugarplum fairy gives a choreographer a lot more to work with. It doesn’t have to be lyrical. Eythora Thorsdottir did an interesting jerky-puppet sort of interpretation of it at worlds in 2017. (Although she didn’t use the Lindsay Sterling version).




(Lee Yunseo used it in Tokyo too, if you want to look at a different interpretation).