Different Process Techniques

I’ve also researched and been thinking about what the different techniques there is to choreograph as I want to know what technique is best for me for the future. Here is some of them that I have experienced before:
 

-       Choreograph on your own time and space and then teach out to your dancers. (Most common in commercial/jazz dance.)

I like when choreographers already know what they are going to teach out and get on with it in the studio. It is probably because I like picking up choreography quick and like the speed (maybe because I’m impatient haha.)

-       Choreograph in the studio with you dancers to get inspiration and help, but have an idea of what your end results will look like. (Chrysalis London’s director Jodie Blemings use this method a lot.)

I’m used to this technique because of Chrysalis. Jodie like to choreograph on the dancer so it will show of he/she in the best possible way. So he will choreograph together with the dancers and see if it looks good or not and change a lot through the process.

-       Choreograph using numbers.

For example Chance dance that is Merce Cunningham´s method. He make up movements to the different numbers and use the chances to choreograph a piece. In that way it can look really creative and different.

-       Choreographers that let the dancers improvise and get movements and inspiration from them. (Usually contemporary dance.)

When you improvise you never know what you will end up doing and it can be different movements every time depending on the music, how you feeling, how much space you have etc. So this is a good technique if you don’t have any movements idea but maybe you know what music you wanna use. So you let the music and the dancers decide what kind of feeling the piece will have.

If you know any other process techniques that I havent mentioned please comment!