"Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind"-Arlene Croce. Choreography is the sequence of steps and movements in dance or figure skating, especially in a ballet or other staged dance. It is the art or practice of designing choreographic sequences or the written notation for a choreographic sequence. Most of the time choreographers are used in a musical of some sort. They control the dancing and most of the movement you see happening. Even the sex scenes that you see in a play or movie is choregraphed by a choreographer. Without the choreographer, there would be a lot more work on someone else to do this job description along with whatever else they would need to be doing. The director would not have enough time to personally teach an entire
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The choreographer relives that director of a lot of stress just by stepping in and making their vison come true. They handle a lot more than what meets the eye. A lot of chirographers may have a hard job with plenty responsibilities to handle on the set, but they love doing that. Most choreographers will tell you that they love their job simply because they chose that and work towards it everyday since then. You pretty much stop being a choreographer when you stop breathing. The most a choreographer is usually $36.20 per hour, or $75,300 per year.
To be a professional choreographer you have to have actual training. They have to at least take three courses of either Jump Rhythm Technique, Music Theatre Dance,Tap or Jazz. It doesn’t stop there though. They prefer they further their education with two more classes. A choreographer works with dancers to interpret and come up with ideas and make them into the finished performance. The choreographer also has to work closely with the director. …show more content…
He studied dance and choreography in his early teens. He staged several musical shows at his high school before dropping out at age sixteen to join a road company of West Side Story. After touring Europe as well as most of the US, he landed a dancing job on Broadway. He landed plenty more jobs as time went by and made plenty lifelong friends along the way like Bob Avian and Donna McKechnie. After three years of being a choreographers assistant, he became a solo choreographer in 1966. This is where Michael earned his first Tony nomination. Finally in 1971 Bennett scored a Tony win with Sondheim’s Follies, and shared the Tony for direction with Hal Prince. Having worked with Prince on his last two shows, Bennett was beginning to think he was meant to direct as well as to choreograph.In the end, Michael became a great choreographer and producer. He was so good at what he did that he was called out on the road to save the production " Seesaw" before it was to air. His only condition was that he have complete control. He felt the old way they went about building the production was not actually helping anymore and he decided to go his own route with it. In the end the play was a success because of his ideas. Afterwards he devoted the better part of his life to overseeing productions. Some of his most famous works would be Henry, Sweet Henry (1967), Promises, Promises (1968), Coco (1969), and Company(1970) . Bennett did not have
The choreographer relives that director of a lot of stress just by stepping in and making their vison come true. They handle a lot more than what meets the eye. A lot of chirographers may have a hard job with plenty responsibilities to handle on the set, but they love doing that. Most choreographers will tell you that they love their job simply because they chose that and work towards it everyday since then. You pretty much stop being a choreographer when you stop breathing. The most a choreographer is usually $36.20 per hour, or $75,300 per year.
To be a professional choreographer you have to have actual training. They have to at least take three courses of either Jump Rhythm Technique, Music Theatre Dance,Tap or Jazz. It doesn’t stop there though. They prefer they further their education with two more classes. A choreographer works with dancers to interpret and come up with ideas and make them into the finished performance. The choreographer also has to work closely with the director. …show more content…
He studied dance and choreography in his early teens. He staged several musical shows at his high school before dropping out at age sixteen to join a road company of West Side Story. After touring Europe as well as most of the US, he landed a dancing job on Broadway. He landed plenty more jobs as time went by and made plenty lifelong friends along the way like Bob Avian and Donna McKechnie. After three years of being a choreographers assistant, he became a solo choreographer in 1966. This is where Michael earned his first Tony nomination. Finally in 1971 Bennett scored a Tony win with Sondheim’s Follies, and shared the Tony for direction with Hal Prince. Having worked with Prince on his last two shows, Bennett was beginning to think he was meant to direct as well as to choreograph.In the end, Michael became a great choreographer and producer. He was so good at what he did that he was called out on the road to save the production " Seesaw" before it was to air. His only condition was that he have complete control. He felt the old way they went about building the production was not actually helping anymore and he decided to go his own route with it. In the end the play was a success because of his ideas. Afterwards he devoted the better part of his life to overseeing productions. Some of his most famous works would be Henry, Sweet Henry (1967), Promises, Promises (1968), Coco (1969), and Company(1970) . Bennett did not have