choreography
IPA: kɔriˈɑgrʌfi
noun
- (uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
- (by extension) The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
- (uncountable) The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
- The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
- The notation used to construct this record.
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Examples of "choreography" in Sentences
- Watching a bellydancer perform choreography is boring.
- The fight choreography is well-done and creative in places.
- Its choreography is dense with invention, its dancers project a fine fierce physicality and an alert, emotional presence.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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