Will AI Replace Choreographers?

Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Coordinate production music with music directors.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Design dances for individual dancers, dance companies, musical theatre, opera, fashion shows, film, television productions, and special events, and for dancers ranging from beginners to professionals.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Audition performers for one or more dance parts.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Assess students' dancing abilities to determine where improvement or change is needed.

Semi-structured cognitive task involving analysis, inspection, or monitoring.

Design sets, lighting, costumes, and other artistic elements of productions, in collaboration with cast members.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Train, exercise, and attend dance classes to maintain high levels of technical proficiency, physical ability, and physical fitness.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Read and study story lines and musical scores to determine how to translate ideas and moods into dance movements.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Manage dance schools, or assist in their management.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Restage traditional dances and works in dance companies' repertoires, developing new interpretations.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.