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