Other forms: choreographies
Choreography is the designed steps and moves of a dance. The choreography is beautiful, learn the choreography, original choreography.
The person who makes it is a choreographer, and choreography is credited alongside music and direction because it is authored work. Ballet notation systems exist to record it, and most of it is nevertheless passed on by demonstration and lost when the dancers stop. Figuratively, choreography means the careful arrangement of any complicated sequence: the choreography of a state visit.
1nounchoreographyThe designed steps and moves of a dance.
“The dancers spent weeks learning the complicated choreography for the opening number.”
2nouncarefulThe careful arrangement of a complicated sequence.
“The choreography of the royal wedding was planned down to the minute.”
choreography is a designed sequence of movement.
Greek choreia, a dance, plus graphein, to write — the writing down of dance. The word was coined for notation, and it now means the making of the dance rather than the recording of it, which is nearly the opposite.
Ancient Greek
χορεία — dance
French
chorégraphie
English, today
choreography
Built from
Reshaping of earlier choregraphy, a borrowing from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (“dance”) + -γραφίᾱ (“written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”). by surface analysis, choreo- + -graphy. Both choregraphy and choreography replaced earlier chorography in the dance sense (from χορός (“dance ring, round dance”) + -γραφία; compare χορογραφία), which had been used in 1710 as a translation of the same French term.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA