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The essential skills of a great choreographer

Craft, collaboration, inspiration, communication: leading choreographers share the secrets of their art.

22 Dec 2014 12:00

Richard Watts

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Phillip Adams BalletLab’s Aviary (2011). Photo by Jeff Busby.

‘Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind,’ according to American critic Arlene Croce, while George Balanchine, the co-founder of the New York City Ballet, once famously said of his art form: ‘Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don’t think so much about it. Just make something interesting.’

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts