Choreographer

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

O*NET reports this occupation under titles such as: Ballet Director; Choreographer; Dance Director; Dance Maker; Musical Choreographer; Opera Choreographer

Tasks

• 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.

Knowledge

• Fine Arts
• Education and Training
• Administration and Management
• Production and Processing
• Design
• Communications and Media
• English Language

Skills

• Active Listening
• Speaking
• Monitoring
• Learning Strategies
• Reading Comprehension
• Critical Thinking
• Active Learning
• Writing

Abilities

• Gross Body Coordination
• Oral Expression
• Originality
• Gross Body Equilibrium
• Oral Comprehension
• Fluency of Ideas
• Visualization
• Dynamic Strength
• Trunk Strength
• Stamina
• Extent Flexibility
• Written Comprehension
• Problem Sensitivity
• Deductive Reasoning
• Multilimb Coordination
• Speech Clarity
• Inductive Reasoning
• Information Ordering
• Dynamic Flexibility
• Speech Recognition
• Selective Attention
• Near Vision
• Written Expression
• Category Flexibility
• Memorization