Choreographers

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
• Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.
• Design dances for individual dancers, dance companies, musical theatre, opera, fashion shows, film, television productions, and special events, and for dancers ranging from beginners to professionals.
• Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
• Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
• Coordinate production music with music directors.
• Audition performers for one or more dance parts.
• Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.
• Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
• Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
• Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
• Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.
• Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.
• Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
• Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.
• Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.
• Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.

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