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How does a choreographer go about planning a dance?
Saw a modern dance outfit recently. Mesmerising, beautiful. But what I really couldn't get my head round was how the choreographer was able to visualise all that and then communicate it to the dancers. There's just too much going on! Over a dozen dancers doing completely weird and incoherent things with their bodies, yet it all adds up to an astonishing whole. So:
is there some kind of code or notation?
is it a universal notation, like in music, or does each choreographer have their own?
what do you do when completely new and bizarre moves are invented that don't fit the code?
Oh well with modern, there really is no way to know how they assembled the choreography. My friend danced with Merce Cunningham, and the man would throw dice a few hours before the show to determine music, placements of lights, placement of dancers on stage... it was in no way unusual to have a dancer performing a solo with the spotlight on the other side of the stage! I danced with a company that choreographed everything. A lot of it was really bad, and I honestly don't care to know where they got it....
Choreography is just something you can do, or you can't do. Choreography can be composed of original, fresh movement, or a weaving together of stale, overdone movements.
A lot of modern dance choreographers harvest their ideas during improve sessions with their dancers. They'll just put the music on and say, "Dance. Do whatever you feel is right." and it is amazing what will come out of those sessions.
I still believe the best choreographers are very educated, very up-to-date on what has been done. They are always going to performances or studying videos of performances.
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