I have been fortunate in my experience to have seen a great deal of dance before I was ever asked to design for dance. I will try to give a basic outline of how I work through my design process so that choreographers and designers may have a guide as to how to put their ideas together. Of course, each project must be approached with some degree of individuality, so not all works will follow the same route in their development.
Among the nominees for the Academy Awards in 2008, guess whose former profession was mentioned at the Awards show? Jon Stewart, holding forth as show host, declared that the writer of the movie "Juno" (29 year-old Diablo Cody) was a former exotic dancer. Why did he mention her former profession? Cody won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. Is being an exotic dancer relevant to her achievement? Perhaps exotic dance has something to do with screen-writing?
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