choreography

English

WOTD – 8 October 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreía, “dance”) + γραφία (graphía, “written form (of a word, etc.), spelling”); surface analysis, choreo- +‎ -graphy.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌkɔɹ.iˈɒɡ.ɹə.fi/
Audio (AU) (file)

Noun

choreography (countable and uncountable, plural choreographies)

(uncountable) The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a work, such as a ballet.
She has staged many successful ballets, so her choreography skills must be excellent.
1. (by extension) The art of creating and arranging sequences of movement for performances of any kind, such as in fight choreography.
(uncountable) The dance steps, sequences or styles peculiar to a work, group, performance or institution.
The show's singing and acting was excellent, but the choreography was dull and poorly-done.
The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
I've written down the choreography for y'all to take a look at.
The notation used to construct this record.
Take a look at this, it's the choreography for our next show.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with chorography.

Derived terms

choreograph
choreographer
choreographic
fight choreography

Translations

art

Albanian: koreografi (sq) f
Arabic: ^{(please verify)} كوريغرافيا‎ f
Hijazi Arabic: كوريقرافيا‎ (kōrīgrāfīya)
Armenian: խորեոգրաֆիա (hy) (xoreografia)
Azerbaijani: xoreoqrafiya
Belarusian: харэагра́фія f (xareahráfija)
Bulgarian: хореогра́фия f (horeográfija)
Catalan: coreografia (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 舞蹈設計／舞蹈设计 (wǔdǎo shèjì), 編舞／编舞 (zh) (biānwǔ)
Czech: choreografie f
Danish: koreografi (da) c
Dutch: choreografie (nl) f
Esperanto: koregrafio
Estonian: koreograafia
Finnish: koreografia (fi)
French: chorégraphie (fr) f
Friulian: coreografie f
Galician: please add this translation if you can
Georgian: ქორეოგრაფია (koreograpia)
German: Choreographie (de) f, Choreografie (de) f
Greek: χορογραφία (el) f (chorografía)
Hungarian: koreográfia (hu)
Indonesian: koreografi (id)
Irish: cóiréagrafaíocht f, córagrafaíocht f
Italian: coreografia (it) f
Japanese: 振付 (ふりつけ, furitsuke), 振り付け (ふりつけ, furitsuke)
Kazakh: хореография (xoreografiä)
Korean: 안무(按舞) (ko) (anmu)
Kyrgyz: хореография (horeografiya)
Latvian: horeogrāfija f
Lithuanian: choreografija (lt) f
Macedonian: кореографија f (koreografija)
Malay: koreografi
Marathi: नृत्यदिग्दर्शन n (nrutyadigdarśan)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: koreografi m
Nynorsk: koreografi m
Occitan: please add this translation if you can
Polish: choreografia (pl) f
Portuguese: coreografia (pt) f
Romanian: coregrafie (ro) f
Russian: хореогра́фия (ru) f (xoreográfija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: кореогра̀фија f
Roman: koreogràfija (sh) f
Slovak: choreografia f
Slovene: koreografija (sl) f
Spanish: coreografía (es) f
Swedish: koreografi (sv) c
Thai: ท่าเต้น
Turkish: koreografi (tr)
Ukrainian: хореогра́фія f (xoreohráfija)
Uzbek: xoreografiya (uz)

representation

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: choreografie f
Finnish: koreografia (fi)
German: Choreografie (de) f
Hungarian: koreográfia (hu)
Indonesian: koreografi (id)
Irish: cóiréagrafaíocht f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: koreografi m
Nynorsk: koreografi m
Russian: хореогра́фия (ru) f (xoreográfija)
Spanish: coreografía (es) f

notation

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Czech: choreografie f
Finnish: koreografia (fi)
Hungarian: koreográfia (hu)
Indonesian: koreografi (id)
Irish: cóiréagrafaíocht f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: koreografi m
Nynorsk: koreografi m
Russian: хореогра́фия (ru) f (xoreográfija)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} chorégraphie (fr) f