Jobs / Design, media, and writing / 27-2032.00
Choreographers
Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.
- US jobs
- 2,860
- Median wage
- $55,310 a year
- Job family
- Design, media, and writing
Can agents do the work of choreographers?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Design, media, and writing: Unmeasured (no change in 12 months)
No direct benchmark gives a success rate.
0% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark.
- 32%Create artistic designs or performancesNot measured
- 20%Train others on operational or work proceduresNot measured
- 12%Coordinate artistic or entertainment activitiesNot measured
- 6%Develop news, entertainment, or artistic contentNot measured
- 6%Monitor external affairs, trends, or eventsNot measured
- 6%Perform recruiting or hiring activitiesNot measured
- 5%Study details of artistic productionsNot measured
- 5%Evaluate personnel capabilities or performanceNot measured
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Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
- Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
- Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.
- Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.
- Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.
- Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.
- Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.
- Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.
- Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.
- Coordinate production music with music directors.
- 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.
- Audition performers for one or more dance parts.
Other job titles for this occupation (12)
Ballet Director · Choreographer · Dance Director · Dance Maker · Musical Choreographer · Opera Choreographer · Choreography Director · Dance Choreographer · Dance Instructor · Dance Master · Dancing Master · Teaching Choreographer