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Choreographers

Description
Create and teach dance. May direct and stage presentations.

Experience
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.

Education
A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).

Training
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Tasks
  • Determines dance movements designed to suggest story, interpret emotion, or enliven show.
  • Studies story line and music to envision and devise dance movements.
  • Directs and stages dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.
  • Auditions performers for one or more dance parts.
  • Instructs cast in dance movements at rehearsals to achieve desired effect.
  • Creates original dance routines for ballets, musicals, or other forms of entertainment.
National Average Salary
$32,750.00/year

Average Salary in Maryland
$25,550.00/year

Important Abilities
   1. Gross Body Coordination
   2. Originality
   3. Fluency of Ideas
   4. Dynamic Strength
   5. Dynamic Flexibility

General Work Activities
   1. Thinking Creatively
   2. Teaching Others
   3. Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
   4. Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
   5. Performing General Physical Activities

Important Skills
   1. Instructing
   2. Coordination
   3. Idea Generation
   4. Reading Comprehension
   5. Monitoring

Frequent Work Context
   1. Objective or Subjective Information
   2. Job-Required Social Interaction
   3. Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
   4. Supervise, Coach, Train Others
   5. Coordinate or Lead Others

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