choreography
pronunciation
How to pronounce choreography in British English:
UK [ˌkɒriˈɒgrəfi]
How to pronounce choreography in American English:
US [ˌkɔriˈɑgrəfi]
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- Noun:
- a show involving artistic dancing
- the representation of dancing by symbols as music is represented by notes
- a notation used by choreographers
Word Origin
- choreography
- choreography: [18] Choreography ‘arrangement of dances’ comes from French choréographie, which was based on Greek khoreíā ‘dance’, a derivative of khorós. (Source of English chorus, choir, and possibly also carol, this originally encompassed dancing as well as singing.) Khoreíā passed into Latin as chorea, applied in English to various muscular disorders (such as Huntington’s chorea); the usage probably originated in the Latin phrase chorea sancti Viti ‘St Vitus’s dance’.=> carol, choir, chorea, chorus
- choreography (n.)
- 1789, from French chorégraphie, coined from Latinized form of Greek khoreia "dance" (see chorus) + graphein "to write" (see -graphy). Related: Choreographic.
Example
- 1. She approaches dancing and choreography as thought in action .
- 2. Usher put on a light spectacle at the 2010 vmas with the choreography to back it up .
- 3. But how does this chemical choreography play out ?
- 4. Service choreography enables multiple services to be run sequentially in a coordinated fashion that implements a business process .
- 5. But the gains from any such choreography have been offset by clashes on the streets of madrid during anti-austerity protests and by the resurgence of catalan nationalism .