Choreographers

<ul><li>Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in how to use dance steps, and in techniques to achieve desired effects.</li><li>Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.</li><li>Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.</li><li>Advise dancers on how to stand and move properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.</li><li>Design dances for individual dancers, dance companies, musical theatre, opera, fashion shows, film, television productions, and special events, and for dancers ranging from beginners to professionals.</li><li>Seek influences from other art forms such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.</li><li>Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.</li><li>Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.</li><li>Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.</li><li>Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.</li><li>Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.</li><li>Coordinate production music with music directors.</li><li>Audition performers for one or more dance parts.</li><li>Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.</li><li>Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.</li><li>Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.</li><li>Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.</li></ul>