When we work on a play we can go into the first meeting with a director with some sort of common language. The language of the play. Even when a director is reconceiving the setting or the circumstances of a play there is still the text the playwright created. By contrast, if we are working on a new piece of choreography we do not have the script, often we do not have the music, and just as frequently we are working with a new approach to movement. I have heard it described as something akin to writing a new play while inventing the language in which the actors are going to speak their lines. I would add to that that you are also teaching the actors the new language. It is no small task. To the uninitiated ...
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