What it is, by way of what it’s not


Choreography is not dance

  • Dancing is not choreography

  • A person running after a ball, isn’t a football game

  • A turning wheel, isn’t a car

  • Wings are not an airplane

  • They’re also not a bird

  • A tomato, isn’t sauce

  • Tomato sauce, is not a pizza

  • A Pizza, is not a restaurant

  • A cucumber, isn’t a salad

  • Words are not a poem

  • Bricks are not a building

  • Brick walls, are not architecture

  • Sound, isn’t music

  • Color is not a painting

  • A line is not a drawing

  • Money, isn’t the economy

  • Leafs are not a tree

  • A tree is not the forest

  • Water is not the ocean

  • A person dancing, is not choreography.

Choreography is a system, it organizes things, people, movements, ideas, actions and sometimes, dancing.

Please, stop calling the dancing, the movement researches, the improv practices, the dance techniques and all the rest of it, choreography.