Is a Choreographic Device?

choreographic device: a specific way of manipulating movement to develop dance choreography (for example, repetition, inversion, accumulation). choreographic process: the method (for example, teacher direction, group collaboration, collage, chance) by which choreography is developed.

What is a choreographic device and name some examples?

Tools of the choreographer used for the creation of dances such as abstraction, canon, motif, contrast, accumulation, repetition, reversal, retrograde, inversion, fragmentation, and embellishment.

Is climax a choreographic device?

A choreographic device to signify a turning point or closing point in the structure/ story of the dance, for example, dances with the structure 'ABA' or 'AB' the 'B' section of these dances would usually contain the climax.