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The person who gets paid to tell your body where it went wrong.
means Someone who designs and arranges the sequences of movement in a dance.
from Built from Greek pieces — 'khoreia' (dance, specifically the kind performed by a chorus) and '-graphos' (writer, one who records). So literally a 'dance-writer' — someone who puts movement down on a plan the way a writer puts words on a page. The word entered English via French 'chorégraphe' as dance notation systems developed, long before anyone used it to mean the person yelling 'five, six, seven, eight.'
- origin
- Greek for dance writing, literally
- job hazard
- counting to eight forever, out loud
- credit irony
- invents the move, dancer gets the fame
- range
- covers weddings, wars, and Beyonce