Anything that is ‘happening’, can be choreographed.

Any type of dance, any situational event, any interaction, anything that moves, anything that is action based, every form of conscious ‘doing’ (and in some cases, even different types of unconscious, inanimate, artificial doing), any text and every form of talking can be choreographed. Sound can be choreographed too, it’s called music.

Choreography is the practice of organizing things which move (through time and space).

This sets choreography apart from the thing being choreographed. They are not the same thing, since they are produced and managed by different processes and tools.

That’s why dance, regardless of the genre, style, method etc, isn’t choreography. It can be choreographed, but it’s not choreography.

Just like running, even thought it’s the main activity happening while playing football, isn’t the game of football. And although one has to practice running if they wish to play football, running has eventually very little to do with football playing, the thing.

Most works defined as choreographies, are actually dances. Choreography as a practice, a craft, a field of knowledge and an art form, is absent in varied degrees, or is present in extremely simplistic forms (usually driven by the toxic type of authority which can only produce imitation and conformity), from the work of most ‘choreographers’.

What choreography offers, is deep insight into systems. It allows the reproduction and study of that which is all around us, both in the natural world, and in that of human beings (as in, social, political, economical systems and so on). It lets us engage artistically with the essence of systems of organisation, which is where the core of its revealing powers lie and through that, it serve as the doorway for spiritual experience and growth.