Notes On Choreography

Lyrics and music should not pull away from the dance. Otherwise it's just another element floating in space

Allow stillness to be a narrative. Movement is a lot of fun but it doesn't always tell us what's going in the choreography.

Costuming tends to make suggestions about the dance, so keep it under consideration

Choreography doesn't always have to be beautiful. Ugliness is a visual expression as well.

At the start of choreographing we are often lost in infinite, but eventuall we strip things apart to get what we want, and in what we want, we should still be able to be in infinite.

Be considerate of transitions to different mood changes.

It's good to have movement as the foundationd of a dance--a flowing and moving variable (as opposed to the music or design).

Words and sounds go into the brain differently than images do. Sometimes one should take away the music and focus on the dance.

Commit to a choice made in the choreography (like the choice to stay restricted to certain movement forms) and try to to break away.

Ask: does my work have an absolute beginning and end, or is it just a moment in time's continuum?

It is good for choreography to have recognizable patterns, but they should be intricate enough for one to take some time to catch on to it, then move on to a different pattern that the eye has to figured out. Too many predicatble patterns bore the eye, and too many uncatchable ones cause the eye to lose interest. As Confucious said "Going too far is just as bad as falling short"

Dance doesn't always have to stop when the music stops--the dance can add to the music or build off it.

Don't worry if something doesn't look so interesting. Honor that moment.