Definitions

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  • noun A composer of dances

Etymologies

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dance +‎ maker

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Examples

  • Astaire, unlike nearly every other musical performer in the Hollywood studio system, was his own auteur, not merely a choreographer albeit one with considerable help, usually from the faithful Hermes Pan but a genuine "dancemaker," no less deserving of that term than George Balanchine.

    He Just Had to Move Will Friedwald 2011

  • What's surprising about this work from an often distinctive dancemaker is its absence of any real character or characters.

    High Decor, Not Demure Robert Greskovic 2011

  • For all the fun and frolic of "Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake," with audience laughter frequently punctuating the performances, its choreographer remains a serious dancemaker.

    Fair Feathered Friends Robert Greskovic 2010

  • The Arlington-based dancemaker celebrated this weekend by squeezing excerpts from longer works into the smaller of two black boxes at Signature Theatre.

    From Lucy Bowen McCauley, a retrospective of great leaps Rebecca Ritzel 2010

  • Hubbard Street Dance Chicago comes to the Eisenhower Theater Nov. 12 and 13 with a work by the esteemed Czech dancemaker Jiri Kylian, but we're most excited to see "Untouched" by Aszure Barton, a promising young Canadian with a confident, stylish voice of her own.

    What's coming in this fall's dance performances 2010

  • In 1997, with his wife, he joined Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet, where he hoped to steep himself in the historic, mid-19th-century masterworks of the troupe's masterful dancemaker, August Bournonville.

    ABT's Alexei the Mild? 2009

  • His career as a dancemaker began, by his own account, in 1944 with his first solo concert, alongside the musical offerings of John Cage (1912-1992), his longtime life and artistic partner, and lasted until this year.

    Cunningham Gave Free Rein to ‘New Possibilities’ 2009

  • Soon Ms. Armitage was dubbed downtown's "punk-ballerina," and the moniker stuck, even when the evolving dancemaker wished to move on with her choreographic career.

    Da Noise and Da Punk 2009

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    Feeling all gooey inside barbylon 2003

  • He is an able dancemaker for stage and screen he created sequences for Black Swan with

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

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