Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art of creating and arranging dances or ballets.
- noun A work created by this art.
- noun Something, such as a series of planned situations, likened to dance arrangements.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of designing and arranging dances, especially ballet-dances.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of representing dancing by signs, as music is represented by notes; -- also called
choregraphy . - noun the art of composing dances for individuals or groups, including the planning of the movements and steps; also, the planning of movements and steps for figure skaters, performed on ice.
- noun informal the planning and coordination of activities for an event, especially one to be held in public.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The art of creating, arranging and recording the
dance movements of aballet etc. - noun The
representation of these movements by a series ofsymbols . - noun The
notation used to construct this record.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a notation used by choreographers
- noun a show involving artistic dancing
- noun the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The fight choreography is well-done and creative in places.
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths — The DVD Review » DVDs Worth Watching 2010
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The choreography is very modern and athletic but the females look unsure when doing various lifts, you can see the split second hesitation going into each lift.
Archive 2009-06-01 HayleyM 2009
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Watching a bellydancer perform choreography is boring.
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Too often the intensity of the choreography is cancelled out by the intransigent clamour of Muhly's music; too often it's not allowed to breathe in the calm between the squalls.
Stephen Petronio Company – review Judith Mackrell 2010
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The choreography is very modern and athletic but the females look unsure when doing various lifts, you can see the split second hesitation going into each lift.
Tango Nights HayleyM 2009
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Watching a bellydancer perform choreography is boring.
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If his special effects and choreography is good, then he should just get a job in those fields and work his way up like most people do.
Ryan vs. Dorkman Director Needs Your Help To Make His First Feature | /Film 2010
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Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence.
Stephen Petronio Company – review Judith Mackrell 2010
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As one of my Kosovo friends said last year, this was one of the least unexpected developments in the Balkans in the last two decades: the ground had been well prepared, and the choreography is being duly executed.
February Books 14) Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising nwhyte 2008
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And while the choreography is not oblivious to these cultural influences, make no mistake that this is still clearly the work of Bausch as they flow back and forth between performers as one leaves off and another picks up a chain of convoluted and nonsensical narrative whimsy.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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