Choreographers

Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Third Interest High-Point

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Second Interest High-Point

First Interest High-Point

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in how to use 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.

Advise dancers on how to stand and move properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.

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.

Seek influences from other art forms such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.

Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.

Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.

Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.

Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.

Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.

Audition performers for one or more dance parts.

Coordinate production music with music directors.

Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.

Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.

Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.

Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.

Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.

Compact disk CD players

Digital stopwatches

Digital video cameras

Digital video disk DVD players

Electronic metronomes

Laptop computers

Multi-speaker stereo systems

Personal computers

Stage lighting systems

Tablet computers

Chorel Technology Dance Designer

Credo Interactive DanceForms

Email software

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office

Microsoft PowerPoint

Music databases

Social media sites

Web browser software

Word processing software

Create work! Hone your skills by doing choreography whenever and wherever you can.

Tried to find work that still allowed me time to pursue my dream.

Black sheep...had to listen to my inner voice and follow my gut.

Each gig, so each day, is different.
But common threads are:

Prepare for rehearsal, be prepared practically so you have the tools you need at hand (music/images/ipad).
Work in studio or on set with director, dancers and designer.
End the day by evaluating what you did and beginning prep for next one.

Artistic director of Hysterica Dance Co.

You should have a back up...don't put all of your eggs in one basket.

Kitty Mcnamee

Artistic director of Hysterica Dance Co.

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Art

Technology

Problem Solving

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Parents:

Challenges I Overcame

Financial

Only artist in family

Kitty Mcnamee

Artistic director of Hysterica Dance Co.

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Art

Technology

Problem Solving

Day to Day

Advice for Getting Started

Recommended Education

My career is not related to what I studied. I'd recommend this path instead:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Parents:

Challenges I Overcame

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