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Choreography

noun

A show involving artistic dancing. Synonym: stage dancing.

The representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes.

A notation used by choreographers.

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"Choreography" Quotes from Famous Books

... landing stages on each of the four arms, and the higher central block with its landing stage for freight and store personnel. Above the four public stages, helicopters swarmed like May flies—May flies which had mutated and invented ritual or military drill or choreography—coming in in four streams to the tips of the arms and rising vertically from the middle. There was about ten times the normal amount of traffic for this early in the morning. He wondered, briefly, then remembered, and cursed. That ...

— Null-ABC • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

... Russians consecrated the spring. Something of the sort was necessary, for an actual representation of machines, a ballet of machines, would not have been as grimly significant as the angular, uncouth gestures of men, would by no means have as nakedly revealed the human engine. Here, in the choreography, every fluid, supple, curving motion is suppressed. Everything is angular, cubical, rectilinear. The music pounds with the rhythm of engines, whirls and spirals like screws and fly-wheels, grinds and shrieks like laboring metal. The ...

— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld