Choreographers

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Ballet Director, Choreographer, Dance Director, Dance Maker

What they do:
Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.
On the job, you would:
  • Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
  • Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
  • Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • music, dance, visual arts, drama, or sculpture
  • English language

Business

  • management

Education and Training

  • teaching and course design

Communications

  • multimedia

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • talking to others

Social

  • teaching people how to do something
  • changing what is done based on other people's actions

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

Abilities

Verbal

  • listen and understand what people say
  • communicate by speaking

Endurance

  • exercise for a long time without getting out of breath

Flexibility, Balance, and Coordination

  • move your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving
  • keep your balance or stay upright

Ideas and Logic

  • come up with lots of ideas

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Persistence
  • Initiative
  • Achievement/Effort
  • Dependability
  • Innovation
  • Adaptability/Flexibility

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Web page creation and editing software

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  • Social media sites

Video creation and editing software

  • YouTube

Graphics or photo imaging software

  • Chorel Technology Dance Designer
  • Credo Interactive DanceForms

Education

Education: (rated 4 of 5)
bachelor's degree or
some college
usually needed

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