Choreography

Choreography ( χορός ancient Greek dance " and γράφειν, write ') today called inventing and rehearsing of movements, usually in the context of dance. A choreography is like a musical composition considered a work of art. It ranges from short solo or show dance, such as Michel Fokine's The Dying Swan (1907 ), to multi- hour staging of a dance theater piece with many actors and a complex plot.

A choreographer is the creative designer of a choreography. He is also inventor and director of the play and thus represents compared to the spectacle called the roles of writer and director. From this dual function arising in consequence complex copyright issues. In opera, drama and musical choreographer usually works with parent directors.

History

Choreography was originally the notation of the movements of the chorus in Greek drama, and then became the recording of dance moves ever.

For Jean Georges Noverre in the 18th century a " chorégraphe " still wants to hold the one who dance moves in writing, and this was rather disparagingly meant. At the same time, a ballet repertoire that was transferable to other ballet companies, but did without written records developed. The einstudierende dancing master wrote these ballets so to speak directly into the body a. This procedure is referred to today as choreography: the composition of movements in the dance, in the extended sense, each staging of movement sequences. The written record of dance movements, however, is now known as dance notation. In the practical revival of older works, the dance notation but hardly plays a role. Despite the present-day existence of video recordings of past performances, the choreography are usually passed down from former dancers / assistants in a process of showing and learning. Choreography is therefore one theory of communication among the few forms of communication, in which tradition plays in the practice of today central importance. Since the avant-garde to the 1900 stage dance has detached from the requirement for an act which freed him since the 18th century from ballroom dancing. Dance can be quite abstract, pure form without specific content, especially as George Balanchine loved it. Contemporary dance does not distinguish between primary narrative, associative and abstract productions. Very often, however, has Tanztheater a content, which may be conceived as an original work by the choreographer, as very often in modern dance and modern dance, or a literary model back as the choreographies by stage plays by John Cranko, such as Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare ( Stuttgart 1962) and Tom Schilling eg Undine Berlin 1972 Black Birds Berlin in 1974 and a new Midsummer Night's Dream Berlin 1984.

Since the 20th century there are also many important choreographers such as Pina Bausch, Ana Ayromlou, Amanda Miller, Jessica Iwanson, Reinhild Hoffmann, Sasha Waltz, Susanne Linke Meg Stuart and Rosemary Butcher, Arila Siegert, Tom Schilling and Gregor Seyffert. The Modern dance developed in both parts of Germany to a wegbestimmenden, diverse, rich art form.

Relationship to music

The choreographer is looking from the accompanying music or is inspired by a musical work, such as John Neumeier of the Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, or Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion, or Uwe Scholz of Haydn's Creation.

Or he works with a composer together, the new music for a particular dance piece writes, for example, Neumeier in his ballet odyssey with the Greek composer George Couroupos or Bernd Schindowski with Stefan Heucke in the Epic of Gilgamesh, or Frederick Ashton with Hans Werner Henze at Undine Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev or with Igor Stravinsky for the ballet the Firebird.

The emancipation of the music plays a role in contemporary dance, so dancing to sound collages or spoken texts.

Others

Even when planning a firework is called choreography. This is - often in accordance with the clock of a previously chosen music - to create and set the time frame, the color scheme and the vertical separation of a large fireworks.

In football stadiums is called the installations of colored cloths among the spectators, the club or symbols represent different choreographies or short choreography.