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单词 choreography
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Definition of choreography in English:

choreography

noun ˌkɒrɪˈɒɡrəfiˌkɔriˈɑɡrəfi
mass noun
  • 1The sequence of steps and movements in dance or figure skating, especially in a ballet or other staged dance.

    the rumbustious choreography reflects the themes of the original play
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Performances by Susan Daniel, Elaine Dunbar and Dawn Sadoway were flawless and the height of craft - as was the music and choreography.
    • A simple piece with meaningful choreography that your dancers can perform well is better than a flashy number that's beyond their abilities.
    • Rather than learning set choreographies, students are encouraged to develop an understanding of the music and traditional movements, and to use this as a foundation for their own personal expression and creativity.
    • Rounding off the night are two short but powerful choreographies, Kaamos and Arbos, making their Canadian debut in this show, which runs until June 2 at Place des Arts.
    • Stroman's endlessly inventive choreography blends many forms of dance - from ballroom to jazz to ballet - into an idiom that's both witty and muscular.
    • Performing her own modern choreography at The Juilliard School rekindled her drive.
    • The choreography, music, lighting and most of all the dancing all combined to convey this pain.
    • Farrell's sense of discovery in every step and her sheer generosity of spirit within the very different choreographies of these three masters make her living example invaluable.
    • Seeing his choreographies is always a treat, but attending a talk at the Candian Centre for Architecture with American choreographer William Forsythe gave followers extra insight to Forsythe as choreographer and as a person.
    • Live music, powerful choreography and a simple performance style allow a modern audience to experience Shakespeare's great love story as an Elizabethan audience might have done.
    • The Royal Ballet has won audiences for 70 years now with its own choreographies.
    • His choreography surrendered to gravity and dealt in angles and broken lines as well as broken phrases.
    • Her choreography, not designed to be easy, is handled very well by the company and makes a thrilling evening in the theatre.
    • The dancing and choreography of Camille Stubel and the cast creates an additional dimension of humour and fluidity in the play.
    • For next year's Hamburg Ballet Days, Jiri will contribute several choreographies of his own.
    • Lerman's professional company carried the three choreographies requiring strong technique and they interpreted their material well.
    • An essential element of Ballet Central's programmes are new choreographies from emerging and established choreographers as well as new scores from composer and Musical Director Philip Feeney.
    • The portion of the case dealing with rights to Graham's choreography might be heard as early as this fall.
    • The second act was a continuous display of skilled dancing and complicated choreography, originally designed by Lev Ivanov of the Russian Ballet at the turn of the 19th century.
    • Part of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens' program is the series Les Grands Européens, which features choreographies by Duato, transplanted American William Forsythe and Czech artist Jiri Kylian.
    1. 1.1 The art or practice of designing choreographic sequences.
      as well as dancing she did a great deal of choreography
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Different combinations of music, choreography, design and lighting are determined by the roll of a dice.
      • The technical awards are for the best cinematography, editing, choreography, stunts, art, costumes, screenplay, story and dialogue writing.
      • And just the years of dancing and choreography really put her in near constant pain.
      • In the ceremony earlier this month, awards were announced in craft categories including outstanding choreography, editing and makeup.
      • He helped redefine the musical, and opened borders between high art and popular choreography.
      • It is simply the acceptance of choreography as an art form in its own right.
      • In 1994, he won a Golden Leo Award for choreography at the Jazz Dance World Congress.
      • The entire school takes part in the performance including stage design and production, costume making, script writing, choreography, promotion and fund raising.
      • Even on a superficial level, film-making will often involve story telling, music, and choreography of some sort and the creation of visual and audio images.
      • Russian ballet is known for its elaborate choreography and stages.
      • The way he dealt with the music fascinated me and fostered my interest in choreography.
      • Practically her whole life revolved around dancing and choreography.
      • Theatrical dance should ideally be a combined operation of choreography, music and design.
      • Dancing and choreography for me are two faces of the same coin.
      • ‘Librettists of that period would know very little about music, choreography or costume design,’ she added.
      • In fact, she says, it was music that put her on the path to choreography.
      • Chinese acrobatic performances enjoy a high reputation world-wide for their skill and difficulty but they have lagged behind in artistic effects and in choreography in recent years.
      • The new structure was more ‘artistically focused’ and included a new head of choreography and head of performance.
      • She's developed a new approach to movement and choreography that's changed the way we look at dance.
      • Music, and choreography, are essential components to these ‘judged’ sports, where it's not what you do but the way that you do it that matters.
    2. 1.2 The written notation for such a sequence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most of the original choreography has been lost, but the charming tale endures.

Derivatives

  • choreographic

  • adjective kɒrɪəˈɡrafɪkˌkɔriəˈɡræfɪk
    • What would his ballets and choreographic vocabulary look like if his production budget had been as stringent as Balanchine's during the Forties and Fifties?
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Financial security can enable you to audition for dance roles as well as develop your choreographic skills.
      • However, few scenes are realized as dance action, and the choreographic invention is modest.
      • Cyclops has the loose quality of a first draft, but a challenging, innovative choreographic vocabulary.
      • In 1948, at age 18, he made his choreographic debut with the New Dance Group.
  • choreographically

  • adverbkɒrɪəˈɡrafɪk(ə)li
    • I began to think choreographically, anticipating how action, use of space, and degree of energy would best enhance the photos, and the choreographer framed movement and poses as if seeing them through a viewfinder.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The evening started rather well - a mixed audience of both young and old, a full promenade section and a first piece, 20 years old, that both perplexed and encouraged choreographically, musically and aesthetically.
      • The first of three works on the New Classics Collection program, Appalachian Spring remained choreographically intact thanks to Diane Gray's superb staging.
      • In 1996 Christopher Dean choreographed Encounters for English National Ballet, a work which did not take skating as its subject, but which did draw choreographically on Dean's own ice dance style.
      • Unfortunately, this adaptation of Dorian proved dramatically fuzzy and choreographically mundane.

Origin

Late 18th century (in the sense 'written notation of dancing'): from Greek khoreia 'dancing in unison' (from khoros 'chorus') + -graphy.

Rhymes

autobiography, bibliography, biography, cardiography, cartography, chirography, chromatography, cinematography, cosmography, cryptography, demography, discography, filmography, geography, hagiography, historiography, hydrography, iconography, lexicography, lithography, oceanography, orthography, palaeography (US paleography), photography, radiography, reprography, stenography, topography, typography
 
 

Definition of choreography in US English:

choreography

nounˌkôrēˈäɡrəfēˌkɔriˈɑɡrəfi
  • 1The sequence of steps and movements in dance or figure skating, especially in a ballet or other staged dance.

    the lively choreography reflects the themes of the original play
    Example sentencesExamples
    • His choreography surrendered to gravity and dealt in angles and broken lines as well as broken phrases.
    • Her choreography, not designed to be easy, is handled very well by the company and makes a thrilling evening in the theatre.
    • The portion of the case dealing with rights to Graham's choreography might be heard as early as this fall.
    • Rounding off the night are two short but powerful choreographies, Kaamos and Arbos, making their Canadian debut in this show, which runs until June 2 at Place des Arts.
    • Stroman's endlessly inventive choreography blends many forms of dance - from ballroom to jazz to ballet - into an idiom that's both witty and muscular.
    • An essential element of Ballet Central's programmes are new choreographies from emerging and established choreographers as well as new scores from composer and Musical Director Philip Feeney.
    • The second act was a continuous display of skilled dancing and complicated choreography, originally designed by Lev Ivanov of the Russian Ballet at the turn of the 19th century.
    • A simple piece with meaningful choreography that your dancers can perform well is better than a flashy number that's beyond their abilities.
    • Rather than learning set choreographies, students are encouraged to develop an understanding of the music and traditional movements, and to use this as a foundation for their own personal expression and creativity.
    • For next year's Hamburg Ballet Days, Jiri will contribute several choreographies of his own.
    • Farrell's sense of discovery in every step and her sheer generosity of spirit within the very different choreographies of these three masters make her living example invaluable.
    • Performances by Susan Daniel, Elaine Dunbar and Dawn Sadoway were flawless and the height of craft - as was the music and choreography.
    • Seeing his choreographies is always a treat, but attending a talk at the Candian Centre for Architecture with American choreographer William Forsythe gave followers extra insight to Forsythe as choreographer and as a person.
    • Lerman's professional company carried the three choreographies requiring strong technique and they interpreted their material well.
    • The choreography, music, lighting and most of all the dancing all combined to convey this pain.
    • Performing her own modern choreography at The Juilliard School rekindled her drive.
    • The dancing and choreography of Camille Stubel and the cast creates an additional dimension of humour and fluidity in the play.
    • The Royal Ballet has won audiences for 70 years now with its own choreographies.
    • Live music, powerful choreography and a simple performance style allow a modern audience to experience Shakespeare's great love story as an Elizabethan audience might have done.
    • Part of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens' program is the series Les Grands Européens, which features choreographies by Duato, transplanted American William Forsythe and Czech artist Jiri Kylian.
    1. 1.1 The art or practice of designing choreographic sequences.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is simply the acceptance of choreography as an art form in its own right.
      • Music, and choreography, are essential components to these ‘judged’ sports, where it's not what you do but the way that you do it that matters.
      • Dancing and choreography for me are two faces of the same coin.
      • In fact, she says, it was music that put her on the path to choreography.
      • Even on a superficial level, film-making will often involve story telling, music, and choreography of some sort and the creation of visual and audio images.
      • Chinese acrobatic performances enjoy a high reputation world-wide for their skill and difficulty but they have lagged behind in artistic effects and in choreography in recent years.
      • She's developed a new approach to movement and choreography that's changed the way we look at dance.
      • The technical awards are for the best cinematography, editing, choreography, stunts, art, costumes, screenplay, story and dialogue writing.
      • Different combinations of music, choreography, design and lighting are determined by the roll of a dice.
      • ‘Librettists of that period would know very little about music, choreography or costume design,’ she added.
      • Theatrical dance should ideally be a combined operation of choreography, music and design.
      • Practically her whole life revolved around dancing and choreography.
      • The way he dealt with the music fascinated me and fostered my interest in choreography.
      • In 1994, he won a Golden Leo Award for choreography at the Jazz Dance World Congress.
      • The new structure was more ‘artistically focused’ and included a new head of choreography and head of performance.
      • Russian ballet is known for its elaborate choreography and stages.
      • And just the years of dancing and choreography really put her in near constant pain.
      • He helped redefine the musical, and opened borders between high art and popular choreography.
      • In the ceremony earlier this month, awards were announced in craft categories including outstanding choreography, editing and makeup.
      • The entire school takes part in the performance including stage design and production, costume making, script writing, choreography, promotion and fund raising.
    2. 1.2 The written notation for a choreographic sequence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most of the original choreography has been lost, but the charming tale endures.

Origin

Late 18th century (in the sense ‘written notation of dancing’): from Greek khoreia ‘dancing in unison’ (from khoros ‘chorus’) + -graphy.

 
 
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