Dance: Choreographers create traditional and modern ballets, dance routines, routines for stage musicals etc. Choreographers do not write music, but they often liaise with a composer when creating an original work, and they work closely with the show's director. See Choreography.

Fight: Fight choreographers specialize in designing fight sequences, often with martial arts, to ensure effective action sequences while minimizing the chance of the perfomers getting injured.

Notable Choreographers

Classical Ballet:

• Frederick Ashton
• George Balanchine
• Stephen Baynes
• Maurice Bejart
• August Bournonville
• John Cranko
• Michel Fokine
• Robert Fosse
• William Forsythe
• Robert Helpmann
• Francois Klaus
• Charles Lisner
• Kenneth MacMillan
• Leonide Massine
• Graeme Murphy
• Bronislava Nijinska
• Vaslav Nijinsky
• Marius Petipa
• Roland Petit
• Marie Rambert
• Jerome Robbins
• Meryl Tankard
• Athony Tudor
• Natalie Weir
• Stanton Welch

• Isadora Duncan
• Martha Graham
• Lester Horton
• Doris Humphrey
• Jose Limon
• Mary Wigman
• Oskar Schlemmer
• Hanya Holm
• Gertrude Bodenweiser
• Paul Taylor
• Merce Cunningham
• Meredith Monk
• Yvonne Rainer
• Steve Paxton
• Trisha Brown
• Christopher Bruce
• Richard Alston
• Robert Cohan
• Robert North
• Leigh Warren
• Twyla Tharp
• Jiri Kylian
• Nacho Duarto
• Lucinda Childs
• Siobahn Davies
• Paul Old
• Jeremy James
• Maggie Seitsma
• Gary Stewart

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See Also

Dance - Dance move