Choreography Dilemmas Quiz

Scenario-Based Questions

• Dilemma: Choreography Leak

  • A friend leaks choreography to another academy.
  • Options: Confront the friend privately, report to management, or ignore.

• Dilemma: Sponsor Offer

  • A sponsor funds you but demands leaving your current academy.
  • Options: Take the offer and leave, decline, or negotiate to maintain both relationships.

• Dilemma: Financial Struggles

  • Your academy faces financial issues. A rival academy offers security.
  • Options: Join the rival academy, or remain in your current academy despite challenges.

• Dilemma: Team Criticism

  • A teammate criticizes the academy publicly during a crucial event.
  • Options: Remain silent, defend the academy, or speak to the teammate privately.

• Dilemma: Weakest Performance

  • You're told you're the weakest performer in the group.
  • Options: Consider quitting, work harder to prove worth, or ask for feedback from others.

• Dilemma: Volunteer Work

  • The academy needs volunteers to clean the studio.
  • Options: Volunteer, offer to help if no one else does, or decline.

• Minor Role in Performance

  • Assigned a minor role in a big performance despite being a choreographer.
  • Options: Perform with enthusiasm, complain about the undervaluing of your contribution, or refuse to perform unless given a more significant role.

• Extra Practice Time

  • The team asks for more practice time when you are exhausted.
  • Options: Push through and practice, step aside to avoid overexertion, or reschedule.

• Outperformed by Younger Team Member

  • Consistently outperformed by a younger team member.
  • Options: Seek extra training, accept the current skill level and support the younger member, or distance yourself.

• Teammate as Captain (Dislike)

  • A disliked teammate is now captain.
  • Options: Respect their position and cooperate, tolerate their leadership, or challenge their decisions.

• Teammate with Different Work Ethic

  • A teammate with a different work ethic slows down the group.
  • Options: Guide them without conflict, complain to the instructor, or focus on personal progress.

• Academy's Focus on Disliked Style

  • The academy changes focus to a dance style you dislike.
  • Options: Embrace and adapt, complain but go along with it, or refuse to participate.

• Disrespectful Partner

  • Your partner disrespects your skills.
  • Options: Confront them about the behavior, maintain professional conduct and focus on work tasks, request a different partner.

• **Excluded

  • From a Social Event
  • Options: Ignore the exclusion, confront the group, maintain distance.

• Blamed for Poor Performance

  • Blamed for bad performance in front of instructor.
  • Options: Immediately defend yourself even if it causes tension, stay quiet and address it later, apologize to the group.

• Instructor Favoring Certain Students

  • Instructor favors certain students over you.
  • Options: Work harder to get the instructor's attention, talk to the instructor, focus on self-improvement.

• Mentoring a Beginner

  • Asked to mentor a beginner who lacks discipline
  • Options: Spend time guiding them patiently, focus on your own work and let the beginner learn independently, or refuse to mentor.

• Wrongful Criticism of Academy

  • Academy's reputation criticized publicly.
  • Options: Defend it openly, or suggest improvements internally.

• Team/Instructor Criticism

  • How to handle criticism from teammates or instructors.
  • Options: Take it personally, reflect, improve, and defend actions.

• Solo Performance vs. Team Practice

  • Offered a solo performance that requires missing team practice.
  • Options: Take the solo, stay with the team, or negotiate to balance both commitments.

• Teammate Sabotage

  • Teammate sabotages your performance.
  • Options: Mentor the teammate with full dedication and set aside past issues, Refuse because of previous actions, or agree but offer minimal effort.

• Performance Injury

  • Injured but the team needs you for a performance.
  • Options: Perform despite the pain, step down to avoid risking health/team performance, or convince instructor to delay performance

• Mandatory Daily Practice

  • New rule mandating daily practice, eliminating time for hobbies and social life.
  • Options: Adapt, challenge the rule to balance both social and training, or secretly plan to leave if the rules persist.

• Copying Routines

  • Another academy copies your academy's routines.
  • Options: Publicly call them out and demand they stop.

• Team Conflict/Disagreement

  • Disagreement during a rehearsal (costume, routine, etc).
  • Options: act as mediator, focus on individual parts to avoid getting involved, enforce discipline.

• Team Member Consistently Disrespectful

  • A team member disrespects your authority/teammates.
  • Options: Address the issue immediately, take the issue privately after the event, report it to the instructor without involvement.

• Substantial Choreography Change

  • Teammate sabotages choreography/disagrees with choreography change.
  • Options: Expose the person publicly, privately confront, or adjust to focus on personal performance.

• Team Workload

  • Group faces a tight deadline or workload and doesn't know how to approach it
  • Options: Push everyone to work harder with little breaks, set small achievable goals and celebrate progress, extend the deadline without discussing it.

• Performance Issues

  • Problems with other team members
  • Options: Ignoring, asking for clarifications, seek feedback or collaboration, address their concerns.

• Difficult Teammate

  • Work with a difficult teammate on a project
  • Options: Avoid working with them completely, establish clear communication, set mutual goals.

• Dealing with Negative Feedback

  • Receive negative feedback on a performance
  • Options: Blame the audience, analyze the feedback to improve with the team, ignore the feedback and move on.

• Challenging Role

  • Challenged with a demanding, potentially overwhelming, role.
  • Options: Decline and ask for a simpler role, ask other dancers for help, complain to peers.

• Conflicting Team Member/Choreographer(s)

  • Team/Choreographer conflicts on team's interpretation of choreographies
  • Options: Private discussions, meetings to voice and discuss different ideas, or keeping opinions to yourself.

• Conflict in Team During Choreographic/Rehearsal

  • Internal conflicts on choreography in teams
  • Options: Encourage collaboration, mediate the discussion, or let the instructor handle it.

• Work Ethics

  • Conflicts with teammates due to differences in work ethic
  • Options: Discuss expectations, find common ground, or complain about lack of dedication.

• Instructor Mismanagement/Favoritism

  • Instructor's biased behavior (favoring certain students)
  • Options: Work harder, talk to the instructor, or focus on self-improvement and ignore issues.

• Dealing with Negativity

  • Teammates' negativity is impacting you
  • Options: Avoid negativity, prevent negativity, encourage them to express in constructive ways, complain to instructor.

• Poor Practice Performance

  • Your performance is lagging behind others.
  • Options: Find additional practice, seek feedback, or beg others for focused time.

• Different Choreography Interpretation

  • Team member has another interpretation to choreography.
  • Options: Discuss and find middle ground, dismiss the different interpretation, or insist on own interpretation.

• Work Overload

  • Overwhelmed by choreography workload.
  • Options: Communicate with Choreographer/instructor, seeks support and solutions, get complain to others.

• Rude Teammate

  • Teammate is rude and disrespectful.
  • Options: Address the behavior, respond with rudeness, or avoid the teammate completely.

• Unmotivated Team

  • Team is unmotivated during rehearsal.
  • Options: Yell/motivate team, motivational speech/activity

• Unmotivated Team

  • Unmotivated team during rehersal
  • Options: Yell/Motivate team/motivational speech or engaging activity, or give up

• Negative Feedback

  • Team receives negative feedback.
  • How to respond to negative feedback; discuss with team members, or analyze and improve.

• Insufficient Resources

  • Important funding or resources are lacking for training/programs.
  • How to proceed when training funds or resources are insufficient for teams. Negotiate terms before acceptance or seek outside resources.

• Copying Routines

  • Another team copies or uses your choreography.

  • Publicly call out violators, or address them privately.

• **Handling conflicting instructions

  • Conflicting instructions from two leaders. -Options : Seek clarification, follow preferred instructions, or balance both instructions.

• Performance Concerns

  • Performance is lacking or struggling -Options: analyze, discuss or seek feedback within the team

• Disagreements

  • Conflicts with others on interpretation or choreography style
  • Options: Seek mediation, find compromise through compromise discussion, or avoid.

• Team conflicts on important deadlines or choreographies

  • Your team faces difficulties when collaborating on important tasks or projects (e.g., deadlines, choreographies).
  • Options: Offer help/organize sessions, take charge/dictate or withdraw/avoid the tasks completely.

General Principles

• Address Issues Directly
• Respectful Communication
• Collaboration
• Prioritize Team Goals
• Personal Responsibility
• Seek Solutions and Improvement