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Summary: How to direct the steps in a beauty pageant; get professional tips and advice from an expert on how to organize and direct a successful pageant event in this free fashion video.
Erica Saylors is an experienced pageant contestant and judge and a director of local pageants. During ten years of competition, she won noted titles such as Miss Houston 2004, Miss...read more
"In order to choreograph a pageant, the first thing that you wanna do is to find someone to do it for you. You can look for at a local high school drill team instructor or a dance teacher to help you out with this. Now if you don’t have an option of having some help, then I’m gonna give you some few tips on how to choreograph on just a very simple way. You don’t wanna make anything too difficult. So for example, whenever you're doing the opening number, you want the contestants to dance to make it really simplified so they can be unified and look like they're in a line together. A couple of suggestions would be, from moving their arms; you wanna think counts of eights so pick an easy song. So with your arms you can do something like, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight... one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. "
eHow Article: Directing the Steps in a Beauty Pageant