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Choreograph Quotes
Behind the scenes of building a routine.
Each quote here comes from someone describing the work of choreographing, whether a high school cheerleading routine or a full music video where they also wrote lyrics and directed. The common thread is Dance as both craft and personal history.
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- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to choreograph a halftime dance with the cheerleading squad, which was all-female, at my high school. And I was the only boy, at the time. We did this whole routine to 'Maria Maria' by Santana, and 'Thong Song' by Sisqo - it was a mix.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come up with the ideas for my videos, and I write the lyrics and choreograph them, and I direct them and tell everyone what to do and how I want them to sing the parts and do the tongue pops and eye rolls and stuff like that.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned how to tell stories with Jay-Z on 'City Is Mine.' I learned how to film and choreograph dancing on 'Can I Get A...,' and I got to kind of be a documentary filmmaker with 'Hard Knock Life.'
- Formation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catalysts are the conductors who choreograph the chemical dance that results in the formation of new structures.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
What really shifted my understanding of my potential placement in the world of art is when I had a chance to choreograph a show for... It was just this incredible production with all these masters.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me personally, and I’m sure not everyone is like this. But for me I find it difficult to choreograph in the daytime.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been times when I booked out a dance studio and I’ve tried to choreograph in there and suddenly I feel like I have no creativity.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, I always wanted to be like Spielberg and to make wonderful movies. Even when I was making 'Indiana Jones,' I was looking at how he would come up with these amazing shots and how he would choreograph the blocking and all that. So I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public brings our buildings to life, and we try to choreograph a lot of things, but our most successful work functions in unanticipated ways. Like the Blur Building. When little kids got in there, they cried or laughed or ran around. And no matter how much theory we put on top of it, it didn't matter: it worked.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020