Occupation: Choreographers

Choreographers

Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.

27-2032.00 | 18 tasks | 6 job titles
Reported Job Titles (6)
  • Ballet Director
  • Choreographer
  • Dance Director
  • Dance Maker
  • Musical Choreographer
  • Opera Choreographer
Core Tasks (17)
  • Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
  • Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
  • Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
  • Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.
  • Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.
  • Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
  • 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.
  • Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
  • Coordinate production music with music directors.
  • 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.
  • Audition performers for one or more dance parts.
  • Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.
  • Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.
  • Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
  • Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.
  • Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.
Supplemental Tasks (1)
  • Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.