News

> Performing Arts > Features

The essential skills of a great choreographer

Craft, collaboration, inspiration, communication: leading choreographers share the secrets of their art.

22 Dec 2014

Richard Watts

[This is archived content and may not display in the originally intended format.]

Performing Arts

Phillip Adams BalletLab’s Aviary (2011). Photo by Jeff Busby.

‘Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind,’ according to American critic Arlene Croce, while George Balanchine, the co-founder of the New York City Ballet, once famously said of his art form: ‘Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don’t think so much about it. Just make something interesting.’

Unlock this content?

Access this content and more

Join Now Login

Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts