Made for Choreographers
Build Original Movement Without Losing the Concept
Also useful for: Dancers, people in Creative
Build a focused movement-development lab that turns your concept into research questions, physical tasks, movement rules, scored phrases, tested transitions, and clear keep-cut-rework decisions.
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Use this when
Use this when you have a strong concept but your movement feels generic, repetitive, disconnected, or overly dependent on your usual instincts. It also works when you need to generate material before rehearsals, recover from a stalled development process, or give dancers productive research tasks.
You'll need
- Concept and central tension
- Performance context
- Music or sound structure
- Cast and physical realities
- Current movement habits or material
- Research references
- Nonnegotiable constraints
- Available development time
You'll get
- Four testable research questions, six distinct explorations, a usable capture grid, five to seven movement rules, at least two phrase structures, three tested transitions, and documented keep-cut-rework decisions
- You can explain why the selected material belongs in this concept, what evidence supports each decision, and what must happen in the next rehearsal.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- Four testable research questions, six distinct explorations, a usable capture grid, five to seven movement rules, at least two phrase structures, three tested transitions, and documented keep-cut-rework decisions
- You can explain why the selected material belongs in this concept, what evidence supports each decision, and what must happen in the next rehearsal.
Sample
This is sample data, not your prompt. Pro unlocks this higher-stakes Playbook. On Free Playbooks you can still copy the assembled prompt into any AI.
Sample input
Concept: A group maintains belonging by making conformity feel comforting. Cast: Five dancers, with no weight-bearing lifts and limited deep knee flexion for one dancer. Current habit: Spirals, suspended reaches, and unison that breaks into solos. Development time: Three 2-hour rehearsals. The current material looks polished but doesn't create enough social pressure.
Sample assembled prompt
Concept spine: Comfort becomes control when... Research question: At what point does... Exploration task: Four dancers maintain a... Each time the solo dancer changes... Run for four minutes. Capture the 10 seconds before and... Stop if contact becomes forceful or... Provisional rule: Group alignment should begin... Selection decision: Rework the existing unison. Keep its rhythmic clarity, but replace...