Description
Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.
- • 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.
- • Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.
- • Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
