Nature is self regulating.

People, being part of nature and when left to their own devices, tend to organize themselves through self regulating groups and systems.

Any form of central regulation, has to involve different forms and degrees of compliance, coercion and violence.

Choreographies, being that their subject matter is people and groups, are in essence self correcting systems. If the conditions for this are properly set forth, a choreography will naturally and consistently self correct and regulate. It will naturally strive to reach a state of balance regarding all of its aspects internally, with little to non external intervention. It will naturally collapse into a more efficient energy state, more agency and visibility for each of the dancers and an overall higher state of clarity.

The more a choreography needs external intervention, regulation and control in order to find this balance, the more fragile it is and the more limited it is in terms of potential growth and evolution over time. This is the reason why some choreographic works keeps on changing and evolving over time, while other stifle and waste all of their energy on trying to preserve some ideal state, which was reached at one point sometime in the past.

A self regulating choreographic work is looking forward, while a centrally controlled one, keeps all of its attention on the past.

One is alive, the other dead.

Choreographing then, is the act of carefully setting the conditions for such a self regulating system to emerge.