FRANCESCA JANDASEK

Another important difference between fight choreography and dance choreography is the training behind each discipline.

Fight choreography and dance choreography share many tools: rhythm, timing, spatial awareness, partnering, breath, repetition, ensemble listening, and trust. This is why they can appear similar from the outside. But the purpose of those tools is different.

What dance choreography does that fight choreography does not necessarily do.

What fight choreography does in theater.

Fight choreography and dance choreography both tell stories through the body. But they are not interchangeable disciplines.

In choreography, period costumes change everything. When choreographing Romeo and Juliet, I have to think not only about what the body can do, but what the costume allows, resists, reveals, or conceals.

Choreographing for Romeo and Juliet directed by Toma Enache includes fine-tuning the movement and giving movement notes to the actors.