Knowra Choreography Choreography Choreography is the composition and arrangement of movement for dance or other performance. It organizes bodies, gestures, space, timing, and relationships into a performed work.
Dance notation : A system for recording dance movement through symbols, diagrams, or written instructions. Notation can preserve choreographic sequences beyond memory and live performance.
Raoul-Auger Feuillet : A French dance notator whose 1700 publication helped popularize a system for recording Baroque dance. His notation made some early modern European dances reproducible across distance.
Martha Graham : An American dancer and choreographer who developed a modern dance technique centered on contraction and release. Her movement vocabulary gave choreography a new physical and dramatic language.
Ballet : A formal theatrical dance tradition with codified technique, training, and repertory. Ballet offers a highly developed vocabulary for choreographic design.
Dance improvisation : The spontaneous creation of dance movement, often guided by prompts, scores, or interactions. It foregrounds in-the-moment decisions where choreography may prescribe sequences in advance.
Labanotation : A dance notation system that records movement through symbols for body parts, direction, level, and duration. It offers a detailed way to document choreography's spatial and bodily choices.
Pierre Beauchamp : A French dancer and choreographer associated with the development of the five positions of classical ballet. His influence links choreography to the codification of ballet technique.
Merce Cunningham : An American choreographer who explored chance procedures and separated dance from music's predetermined structure. His methods challenged choreographers to reconsider how movement and music relate.
Musical theatre : A theatrical form combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. Choreography integrates dance with plot, character, and musical numbers.
Chance music : Music composed using random procedures or decisions that leave some outcomes undetermined. Merce Cunningham drew on chance methods to loosen fixed relationships among movement and sound.
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