Long Take vs Coverage

For my Advanced Cinematography class, we were tasked to shoot a scene twice with two different sets of shot choices. We had to first shoot it as a long take and then shoot it again from different angles. This scene is portraying the feeling of dancers being on stage and the feeling of stage freight. For a dancer, when this happens it feels like everything freezes at that moment, but for everyone else, time never stops, and may not even notice at all.