The popular “Uptown Funk” by Bruno Mars is hard to critique its choreographic

form for it fits in many categories. And me myself is not a dancer at all. At first, I thought
it was belong to sequential forms because of its sub category rondo. And rondo form is
famous about its theme “ABACA” or “ABACADAEAFA” where the unifying theme A
returns after each contrasting themes. However, it did not pass to other sub categories
of sequential forms. After identifying that indeed it was not a sequential form, I had an
idea that it was in other compositional forms which is the collage, since in some way the
music video consists of a series movement phrases that are often unrelated, but it made
me hesitate again. Although it is somehow a collage but the goal here is, I need to critic
the whole music video and its compositions.

So, I’ve come up with my final observation which is the contrapuntal forms, since
it has the greatest number of characteristics in its sub categories. Firstly, the ground
bass, for the dance starts with a single theme and is repeated throughout the dance
while other contrasting themes are simultaneously performed and we can clearly see it
there, for the main dancer Bruno Mars has a backup dancers. I also see that, the dance
was established in every repetition of the main movement theme by adding movement,
and obviously it was a fugue or accumulation. And my last observation in the video, was
some part of the dance uses various tempos and patterns specifically in the chorus part
wherein the beat of the music changes into more upbeat that makes the steps more
energetic compared in the beginning and ending part of the video, which is also a sub
category of contrapuntal, the suite. In conclusion, in spite of the simple steps they
performed, we can’t deny the fact that it suppresses a lot of themes that differ from one
another that makes the steps more eccentric, that is truly complicated to perform.