Occupational Employment Statistics
27-2032 Choreographers
Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.
| Education and Health Services | N/A | N/A |
- Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.
- Advise dancers on how to stand and move properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
- Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.
- Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
- Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in how to use dance steps, and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
- Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
- Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in how to use dance steps, and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
- Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.
- Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.
- Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.