choreographer

choreographer
(and choreography)
  a person who plans, designs, organizes, sequences, and directs dancing, fighting, or other physical actions or movements in a film or stage production; a dancer is known as a hoofer.
  Examples: Busby Berkeley was the most famous early choreographer. Bob Fosse more recently directed heavily-choreographed films such as Cabaret (1972) and All That Jazz (1979). This image was taken from a choreographed dance sequence in Singin' in the Rain (1952).

Glossary of cinematic terms . 2015.

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  • choreographer — noun see choreograph …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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  • choreographer — cho|re|o|graph|er [ ,kɔri agrəfər ] noun count someone whose job is to plan the movements that dancers perform on stage …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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