Overview for Choreographers

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• Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
• Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
• 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.
• 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.
• Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
• Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
• Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.
• Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
• Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.