choreography
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- noun
- /ˌkɔːrɪˈɒɡrəfi/
- The choreography of the dance performance was intricate and captivating.
- dance and choreography
- ballet choreography
- music and choreography
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Watch on YouTubeJust like with a good story, choreography has to have levels.
- Just like with a good story, choreography has to have levels.
- And then at the same time you have to know like your choreography and you would mess up.
- Some of it is more so for staged combat or choreography.
- You guys know those videos on YouTube or those choreographies on YouTube where they do dance videos in heels?
- There's something deeply camp, deeply campy about Busby Berkeley's choreography.
- They've done choreography for Beyoncé and then they but she they got found through TikTok.
- I do everyone's dancing and they're all doing the same dances and I don't know who's creating the choreography.
- They look silly saying these, not saying, yelling these affirmations out loud while doing the choreography at the same time.
- One of the great things that he brings to fight choreography, in my opinion, is that you always know what's going on.
- But watching this, it's like the choreography, the planning, the steps, they're all on like little roller carts.
- Then I learned ballet, tap, modern acrobatics, jazz, choreography.
Examples
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The show was amazing, especially the choreography.
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There is no one way to teach creativity through dance teaching generally or to teach choreography specifically.
Academic text (1993) -
Where does dance stop and choreography begin?
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You remember the choreography, right?
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In the field of dance, we are sometimes asked if one can really teach choreography.
Academic text (1993) -
Moreover, viewers need to be able to distinguish the choreography from how well it is performed.
Academic text (1999) -
While performing, the ensemble does different variations of group choreography in colorful, modern, uniform dress.
Academic text (1990) -
Sheldon and the Rhinettes work on some choreography for that night's show.
Fiction book (2002) -
Larissa had been growing increasingly dissatisfied with the choreography of this dance.
Fiction book (1992) -
Mime is the purest evidence of that kinetic memory, which is essential to choreography as well as dance criticism.
Academic text (1994)
How Complex
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Morphology
choreography = choreograph (transparent) = choreograph + y
Formed directly from the verb 'choreograph' with a standard noun-forming suffix; the core meaning 'designing dance movements' follows directly from the verb.
Etymology
Choreography comes from Greek parts choros 'dance' and -graphy 'writing'. Think of it as 'dance-writing' — a plan of dance moves, so choreography is the art of designing sequences of movement.