choreography

English

WOTD – 8 October 2012    

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Etymology

From French chorégraphie, from Ancient Greek χορεία (khoreia, “dance”) + -graphy.

Noun

choreography (countable and uncountable; plural choreographies)

1. The art of creating, arranging and recording the dance movements of a ballet etc.
2. The representation of these movements by a series of symbols.
3. The notation used to construct this record.

Translations

art

• Catalan: coreografia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 舞蹈設計 (cmn), 舞蹈设计 (cmn) (wǔdǎo shèjì), 編舞 (cmn), 编舞 (cmn) (biānwǔ)

• Czech: choreografie (cs) f
• Finnish: koreografia (fi)
• French: chorégraphie (fr) f
• German: Choreographie (de) f, Choreografie (de) f
• Greek: χορογραφία (el) (chorografía) f
• Hungarian: koreográfia (hu)
• Italian: coreografia (it) f

• Japanese: 振付 (ja) (ふりつけ, furitsuke), 振り付け (ja) (ふりつけ, furitsuke)
• Korean: 안무 (ko) (anmu) (按舞 (ko))
• Marathi: नृत्यदिग्दर्शन (mr) (nrutya digdarshan) n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koreografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: koreografi (no) m

• Portuguese: coreografia (pt) f
• Russian: хореография (ru) (xoreográfija) f
• Spanish: coreografía (es) f
• Swedish: koreografi (sv) c
• Turkish: koreografi (tr)

representation

• Czech: choreografie (cs) f
• Finnish: koreografia (fi)
• German: Choreografie (de) f
• Hungarian: koreográfia (hu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koreografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: koreografi (no) m

• Spanish: coreografía (es) f

notation

• Czech: choreografie (cs) f
• Finnish: koreografia (fi)
• Hungarian: koreográfia (hu)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: koreografi (no) m

  Nynorsk: koreografi (no) m

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Translations to be checked

• French: chorégraphie f

See also

• choreograph
• choreographer
• choreographic

External links

• choreography at OneLook Dictionary Search