A choreographer has a different role than a director when working on a production. While a director works from an existing script and vision, a choreographer is responsible for creating the vision, staging, and choreography all at the same time. This requires a choreographer to take on many roles simultaneously, making it an entirely different type of collaborative process than working with a director.

1. Thomas Skelton

5. How is it different to work with a choreographer ….well the
basic, the basic difference is that a I
believe that any production has a single vision and my job as a
collaborator is to collaborate with
that vision. But the vision of a director is working from an
existing script. He’s working from
the words and I can read those words and I can refer back to
those words and then come to
understand the directors point of view on those words A
choreographer is writing the play and
staging it and being the traffic cop and every thing else all at the
same time. And its an entirely different role