Choreography Basics

Structure and Construction

If You Are Creating the Fight, Start With Story, Not Stage Directions

If choreography falls to you, begin with essential story points:

1. What must the audience understand overall?
2. What must this scene communicate?
3. What must this fight accomplish?

Everything else is negotiable.

From this point, the process unfolds in sequence: determine the story, build the structure, set the moves, and develop the fight.

To guide the work:

• Start with purpose: Foundations of Fight Choreography → The Commission
• Build the structure: Building a Narrative Fight → The Fight Score Method
• Bring it to life: Setting the Moves → Developing and Varying the Fight