Made for Choreographers
Pressure-Test Your Choreographic Concept
Also useful for: people in Creative
Turn an early choreographic idea into a focused brief that connects meaning, movement, sound, space, design, and audience experience. You also get practical tests for rejecting choices that weaken the concept.
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Use this when
Use this before movement development begins, when a promising idea keeps expanding, or when collaborators understand the concept differently. It also helps when existing material feels attractive but disconnected from the piece's central purpose.
You'll need
- Concept Seed
- Performance Context
- Development Stage
- Audience Experience
- Movement World
- Sound Relationship
- Visual and Spatial Logic
- Constraints
- Boundaries and Non-Negotiables
- Target Duration
You'll get
- One concise concept statement and one central tension
- You can explain the intended audience journey, movement world, sound relationship, and visual logic without relying on vague mood words
- Explicit boundaries, three usable decision rules, named creative risks, and five rehearsal proof tests with pass, revise, or reject thresholds
- You also know which unresolved choices must be decided before substantial movement development.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- One concise concept statement and one central tension
- You can explain the intended audience journey, movement world, sound relationship, and visual logic without relying on vague mood words
- Explicit boundaries, three usable decision rules, named creative risks, and five rehearsal proof tests with pass, revise, or reject thresholds
- You also know which unresolved choices must be decided before substantial movement development.
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
My concept is a quartet about public composure and private panic. The piece is for a three-sided black box with four dancers, six rehearsals, basic lighting, and no set. I want the audience to admire the group's precision before recognizing its cost. The movement combines exact frontal unison with breath disruption, shaking, delayed responses, and gestures that outlast the group. An electronic pulse creates social pressure, while recorded breathing destabilizes it. Symmetry represents the public image. I want to avoid turning panic into spectacle or isolating one dancer as the damaged person. The target length is 18 minutes.
Sample assembled prompt
Concept statement: Four bodies repeatedly construct... Central tension: The need to remain... Audience journey: The opening establishes precision... Small timing and breath failures then... Attempts to restore order grow more... The final image preserves the formation... Movement world: Keep exact shared timing,... Reject decorative virtuosity, generalized chaos, and... Sound relationship: Treat the pulse as... Let breath reveal information the pulse... Decision rule: Keep a choice if... Reject a choice if it creates... Risk: Repeated escalation could make the... Contain this by varying who detects,... Proof test: Run the opening material... Pass if an outside viewer can... Revise if the shift reads only... Reject the device if it requires...