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Arrangement or composition of a ballet
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choreography
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion , form , or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She studied choreography at the Royal School of Ballet. ▪ The splendid choreography was by Ann-Marie Brady. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ His choreography , on Broadway and in the film, was vivid, inventive. ▪ In part, the problem ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a show involving artistic dancing [syn: stage dancing ] the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes a notation used by choreographers
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a ballet etc. 2 The representation of these movements by a series of symbols. 3 The notation used to construct this record.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1789, from French chorégraphie , coined from Latinized form of Greek khoreia "dance" (see chorus ) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy ). Related: Choreographic .
Usage examples of choreography.
The prisoner wore his hair in greasy cornrows and slept on the floor with his back to Tom, and whenever he rearranged his limbs, which was often, he reminded Tom of a zoo animal, almost no trace left of pride in his movements, a languid choreography of animal defeat, a slack heavy lifer in his thirties or early forties with raised gray burn scars on his back and shoulders and silver psoriatic elbows.
Precision choreography, again and again, as cells divided, normally now, and the one-celled ova became two-celled, four-celled, eight-celled.
The homeless people and hookers and three-card monte players and kids were having a great time watching the slick choreography of the men and women from the dozen or so fire trucks on the scene.
There, see, in annotated ivory tools, lengths of notched wood, in the wave-guide manipulation of light and our nosings into the choreography of protons, we implicate ourselves in endless uncertainty.
As he spoke he began the sacred choreography, briskly striding from one end of the chancel rail to the other, bent forward at the hips, half turned toward the nave.
Temul immediately launched into a complex choreography, the blade blurring in his hand.
The ghostly firmament, constantly shifting to some instinctive choreography, hummed down to her as the massed creatures chatted at one another.
But it's a ballsy fight-scene up there on the stage having been intricately choreographed by an Oriental guy Himself rented from some commercial studio and put up in the HmH, who ate like a bird and smiled very politely all the time and didn't have even a word to say to anybody, it seemed, except Avril, to whom the Oriental choreographer had cottoned right off balletic and full of compelling little cornerings and near-misses and reversals, and the theater's audience is rapt and clearly entertained to the gills, because they keep spontaneously applauding, as much maybe for the film's play's choreography as anything else which would make it more like spontaneously meta-applauding, Hal supposes because the whole fight-scene has to be ingeniously choreographed so that both combatants have their respectively scaly and cream-complected backs155 to the audience, for obvious reasons .
The program consisted of Polovetsian Dances, Sleeping Beauty with Petipa's ambitious choreography, and the Valse Triste, which Madame Lara had rehearsed.
Already ingenious choreography mingles the pas assemblés of the slipper-dancers with the sweeping pas jetés of male flames.
Investigators did their best to reconstruct the movementswho stood where, who shot whom, who died firstbut on paper it's impossible to describe the choreography of terror that morning.
When the next monster Bronwyn tried to engage pranced four paces back, four forward, and chased its forked tail three times in succession, and the half-griffin to its right bowed and repeated its movements, she sensed Carole's fine choreography at work.
Today he didn't strut back and forth along the chancel rail in the sacred choreography, nor did he stab fingers at his listeners.
On Harlan's World, streetlife has a stripped-back elegance to it, an economy of motion and gesture that feels almost like choreography if you're not used to it.
The blackness of the shaped shadows cast by the hard rocks danced together in wild choreography as the arclights swept round them.