| 单词 | choreography |
| 释义 | choreography (once / 7567 pages) 1n 2n Use the noun choreography to describe the plan for how dancers will move on a stage during a show, play, or dance. You might particularly love the choreography in the movie "West Side Story." You can use the word choreography to mean "dance" or "ballet," but its specific meaning is the notation a choreographer makes on paper as she plans out the complex movements and steps made by dancers. Choreography is particularly important in musical theater, ballet, opera, and dance recitals. The Greek roots of choreography are khoreia, "dance," and graphein, "to write." WORD FAMILYchoreography: choreographies USAGE EXAMPLESABC quickly cut to shots of the Times Square crowd as Ms. Carey tried to perform some of her choreography. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) A video features the alluring Thomas Edwards, of the Scottish Ballet, in a hawk costume, as he reimagines the play’s largely undocumented choreography. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) Apart from Ailey’s work, it was troubling how much of the choreography was indistinct: pasted onto the dancers instead of embedded in them. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1 n a show involving artistic dancing 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper stage dancing ballet, concert dance a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers modern dancea style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings apache dancea violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld) belly dance, belly dancing, danse du ventrea Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen boleroa Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets cakewalka strutting dance based on a march; was performed in minstrel shows; originated as a competition among Black dancers to win a cake cancana high-kicking dance of French origin performed by a female chorus line nude dancingerotic dancing with little or no clothing classical balleta style of ballet based on precise conventional steps performed with graceful and flowing movements modern balleta style of ballet that admits a wider variety of movements comedy balleta ballet that stresses the drama with features of comedy fan dancea solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness strip, strip show, stripteasea form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music bubble dancea solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans interpretative dance, interpretative dancing, interpretive dance, interpretive dancinga form of modern dance in which the dancer's movements depict an emotion or tell a story dance, dancing, saltation, terpsichore taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music showa social event involving a public performance or entertainment 1n the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes Hyper dance an artistic form of nonverbal communication 2n a notation used by choreographers Hypo|Hyper Labanotation a system of notation for dance movements that uses symbols to represent points on a dancer's body and the direction of the dancer's movement and the tempo and the dynamics notation, notational system a technical system of symbols used to represent special things |
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