I feel I should post here now that I suggested this forum!

I am a frequent choroegrapher for community theatre and a dance teacher with a dance degree. I also work part-time in the office at our local comm. theatre. Anyone else here a choreographer or looking for choreography/movement tips, advice, solutions, resources, or comraderie?

I will be choreographing Once Upon a Mattress starting this month and have done work for other shows such as Fiddler on the Roof, The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the ATDC, Babes In Arms, Bye Bye Birdie, The King and I, and more.

Hello!  I, too am a frequent choreographer for community theatre as well as a dance teacher.  In the past couple of years I have also moved into directing, mostly for musicals, as I find it is much easier for me to achieve my overall vision by doing both directing & choreography.  Just finished up "Seussical" last fall, and our group is looking at possibly mounting JC Superstar this fall.  Some other recent shows I've worked on were "Joseph", "Annie", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Brigadoon" and "Stepping Out".  I am very excited about this forum - I hope it will be a great source of information and sharing!

Hi everyone! Some have suggested that I consider directing at some point. With my other duties as a teacher (and soon to be mom!), I've typically dismissed the idea because of time, however, after doing a show not long ago where I felt like I did a lot of directing for the Director anyway, I've thought about it more seriously!

OUAM is a really fun musical. I'm enjoying the variety and humor inherent in the songs. It's fun to choreograph because one can be really creative. I'm a little worried about fitting everything into the director's schedule right now. We are getting a late start (spring break's a pain) and the schedule is limited because of actor conflicts. I'm hoping we have time for the major numbers, let alone some of the smaller ones!

I too am looking forward to this forum! I already had a bit of a rant in the other post because of pay inequality for choreographers. We dancers are always at the bottom of the totem pole! *sigh*

Because we all have our thing and we all think our thing is the most important thing. We think of our thing first and how everyone else thing effects our thing. Because the director needs all of the things to work we all feel we need to get our thing right... Not to add that when you have that many creative folks in one place there is bound to be issues, its what binds us together really, folks with very different skills come together to make art. our differences make us stronger...

Perhaps because those at the top of the totum pole don't take the time to acknowledge those who feel they're at the bottom of the totum pole and say thank you for all your hard work!  (See my other post on this very topic.)