Creates or leads the creative team in coming up with the concepts. Controls production choices, directorial choices, and overall artistic vision. Hires creative/production personnel & other production management tasks. Trains dancers. Choreographs for dance productions.

Creates new dance routines. Rehearses performance of routines. Directs and stages presentations. Auditions performers for one or more dance parts. Coordinates production music with music directors. Directs rehearsals to instruct dancers in how to use dance steps, and in techniques to achieve desired effects. Seek influences from other art forms such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture. Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.

Teaches adults and children whose first or main language is not English. Plans, prepares and delivers lessons. Prepares and sets tests, examination papers, and exercises.