Choreography: Creating and Developing Dance for Performance

by Kate Flatt

Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks and frameworks offered will develop new curiosity, understanding, skill and confidence. The chapters cover the key areas of engagement including what is a choreographer; getting started; improvisation and ideas; context, stage geometry and atmosphere; movement as dance in time and space; solo, duet, trio and group choreography and finally, structure and the 'choreographic eye'. This is an ideal companion for dancers and dance students wanting to express their ideas through choreography and develop their skills to effectively articulate them in performance. It is superbly illustrated with 143 practical colour and black & white photographs and diagrams. Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer, mentor and teacher.

176 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 22, 2019

Reviews

[Briana Moody · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for someone just stepping into the leadership roles of dance. Very comprehensive and easy to read. It does have a lot of images, which took up about 1/3 of the book. It's a fast read, and was extremely helpful for my first solo piece.