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Set the shorthand legend
Standardize repeated directions, facings, levels, dynamics, and warning marks before compressing the choreography.
Made for Choreographers
Capture Fast Choreography Notes
Also useful for: Dancers, people in Creative
15 min
Intermediate
Creative Planning
Build a Skill
Build a reusable shorthand template for capturing choreography without writing full sentences or losing the details needed for the next run.
We'll use them to write your prompt.
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Make Your Play
Give us the situation. We’ll build the prompt.
Capture choreography while it's fresh, then find the right count, cue, pathway, or correction without digging through scattered notes.
Your answers save as you type.
What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Build the section cards
Place each choreography fragment under a count, lyric, musical cue, or rehearsal label so the notes follow the order of the piece.
03
Choose the next-run scan
Reduce the notes to the few reminders most likely to change the next run.
Make Your Play
Capture Fast Choreography Notes
Tell us what the prompt needs to know
Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Describe the piece, rehearsal focus, and where this material sits in the choreography.
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Paste every useful fragment you captured, including counts, lyrics, movements, directions, corrections, and questions.
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List the shorthand, symbols, and direction labels that already make sense to you.
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Enter the number of minutes normally available to scan notes between runs.
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What you'll do
Check a step when you finish it.
01
Set the shorthand legend
Standardize repeated directions, facings, levels, dynamics, and warning marks before compressing the choreography.
02
Build the section cards
Place each choreography fragment under a count, lyric, musical cue, or rehearsal label so the notes follow the order of the piece.
03
Choose the next-run scan
Reduce the notes to the few reminders most likely to change the next run.
Fill in the fields above to generate your prompt preview.
Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Paste rough notes exactly as written, even if they’re incomplete. Include count fragments, lyrics, directions, corrections, and questions. The assistant will sort them without filling in missing choreography.
Advanced instructions
Add cast spacing, formation changes, dynamics, weight transfers, and entry or exit cues. Replace the suggested labels with established company shorthand when consistency across rehearsals matters.
Use this when
You've just learned or reviewed choreography and need to organize rough notes before the next run, break, or rehearsal.
You'll need
- Piece and rehearsal context
- Rough rehearsal notes
- Notation preferences
- Between-run review time
You'll get
- A shorthand legend for repeated notation
- Every known section placed under a clear count, lyric, musical cue, or rehearsal label
- Difficult transitions, corrections, and unanswered questions visibly marked
- A three-to-five-item scan list ready for the next run.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- A shorthand legend for repeated notation
- Every known section placed under a clear count, lyric, musical cue, or rehearsal label
- Difficult transitions, corrections, and unanswered questions visibly marked
- A three-to-five-item scan list ready for the next run.
Examples
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