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Making chaos look inevitable, eight counts at a time.
means The art of planning and arranging movement — usually dance, but also the orchestrated choices behind any sequence of motion — so what happens on stage or screen feels deliberate.
from Straight from Greek: khoreia, 'dance,' plus graphein, 'to write.' Same root family as 'chorus' — the group of dancers and singers in Greek drama who moved as one. So a choreographer is literally a 'dance-writer,' scripting bodies the way an author scripts sentences.
- origin
- greek for dance writing
- secret skill
- counting music others cannot hear
- hard truth
- bad choreography can't save a bad song
- real job
- deciding where bodies lie about feelings