This document discusses key factors in choreography. It highlights influential choreographers like Martha Graham, Agnes de Mille, Rudolf Laban, and Merce Cunningham. It also discusses techniques used in choreography like motif development and manipulation through repetition, retrograde, inversion, expansion and other methods. Finally, it briefly mentions costume design.

2. Choreography
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3. Key Factors

4. Martha Graham 1894-1991
• “Nobody cares if you can’t
dance well. Just get up and
dance. Great dancers are
not great because of their
technique, they are great
because of their passion.”

5. Agnes de Mille 1905-1993
• “To dance is to be out of
yourself. Larger, more
beautiful, more powerful. This
is power, it is glory on earth
and it is yours for the taking.”

6. Rudolf Laban 1879-1958

7. Merce Cunningham 1919-2009
• “There’s no thinking
involved in my
choreography. . .I don’t
work through images or
ideas. I work through the
body. . .If the dancers
dances, which is not the
same as having theories
about dancing or wishing
to dance or trying to
dance, everything is there.
When I dance, it means:
this is what I am doing.”

8. Kate Jablonski

9. Motif Development

10. Motif Manipulation
• Repetition
• Retrograde
• Inversion
• Expansion
• Tempo changes
• Rhythm
• Quality
• Force
• Levels
• Fragmentation
• Combination

11. Costume

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