Dance Choreography
Essentials
Industry Experts
Program Overview
Real-World Examples
Learn from prestigious Juilliard faculty and NYC dance luminaries with on-demand video lessons. Develop real-world skills and original choreography with guidance from industry experts.
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100% online and on-demand course materials allow you to complete the certificate program on a schedule that works best for you.
Build Expertise
Learn from leading faculty and working choreographers with exclusive on-demand video lessons. Develop practical skills through self-paced projects and hands-on assignments that grow your choreographic portfolio.
Set Yourself Apart
Earn a Certificate of Completion from the world-renowned Juilliard Extension. Add it to your profile and resume to stand out in the dance industry.
What You'll Be Able to Do
- Speak the language of time, space, and energy
- Analyze influential works to inform your decisions
- Generate original movement and develop it with devices
- Design choreography for site-specific spaces
- Produce a finished screendance using accessible tech
- Build a repeatable choreographic process and voice
Skills You'll Gain
Build Your Portfolio
The course is built around hands-on projects, so you leave with real, portfolio-ready work, not just a certificate.
Building Blocks of Choreography
Master the core language of choreographic choice through time, space, and energy.
Studying Other Choreographers
Deepen your craft by analyzing influential works across narrative and abstraction.
Developing Your Own Voice
Generate original movement and shape it into composed work using proven devices.
Site-Specific Choreography
Take your work off the stage and make the space itself a partner in the process.
Choreography for Camera
Create a finished screendance, using framing, camera movement, and editing as tools.
Make your mark as a choreographer. On YOUR schedule.
The program includes five online modules with related skill-building activities. Each module is 3-5 hours, broken into shorter lessons for maximum flexibility. Assignments and hands-on projects reinforce key concepts and build your professional portfolio. Earn a non-credit certificate of completion from Juilliard Extension.
Building Blocks of Choreography
Discover the three interconnected elements that form the foundation of all choreography: time, space, and energy. Learn how manipulating speed, duration, rhythm, size, level, and effort transforms the mood, texture, and meaning of movement. Build fluency in the core language of choreographic choice and unlock infinite variation from minimal material.
Studying Other Choreographers
Deepen your craft by analyzing complete works across the spectrum from pure narrative to pure abstraction. Learn how storytelling, character, and gesture function in narrative work, and how abstraction prioritizes form and musicality. Explore hybrid approaches and discover the logic behind master choreographers’ choices to ask new questions about your own work.
Developing Your Own Voice
Explore multiple creative starting points, from music and concept to pure improvisation. Study choreographic devices like repetition, augmentation, retrograde, and chance procedures that refine your ideas. Discover game-based strategies and scoring techniques that unlock surprising material. Build a toolkit you can return to throughout your career.
Site-Specific Choreography
Step beyond the traditional stage and learn how to scout locations, secure permissions, and navigate terrain and safety. Discover how to create movement born from a specific place or adapt existing work to a new environment. Develop sensitivity to what a space offers and the flexibility to let those discoveries reshape your initial ideas.
Choreography for Camera
Develop screendance as a distinct art form where the camera and editing become choreographic tools. Learn the entire workflow from pre-production planning through finished film: shot selection, framing, camera movement, and the crucial role of editing in shaping time and energy. Create your own short dance for camera using accessible technology.
Choose How You Pay
Same full course either way: 5 modules, real industry projects, and your Juilliard Extension Certificate of Completion.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Dancers and creators at any experience level, from beginners to those with some dance background, who want to make original choreography for stage, site, and screen.
5 self-paced modules. Most learners finish in under 30 hours on their own schedule.
Yes. The course is 100% online and on-demand, so you can study on your own schedule from anywhere.
A non-credit Certificate of Completion from Juilliard Extension that you can add to your resume and LinkedIn profile.
No. The course starts with the fundamentals and is designed for newcomers as well as those already working in the field.
Yes. Request the course catalog and a program advisor can walk you through payment options and any current offers.
Dance Choreography Essentials includes five on-demand modules that guide students through the foundational elements and craft of choreography, including time, space, energy, improvisation, choreographic devices, analysis of influential works, site-specific creation, and choreography for camera, empowering students to create original work for stage, site, and screen. Each course module takes 3 to 5 hours to complete and is broken into shorter lessons and activities that students work on at their own pace.
The course is taught by The Juilliard School faculty, supplemented with insights from professional dancers and choreographers.
After completing the course, students will have a significantly greater understanding of dance and choreography. In addition, students will receive a non-credit Certificate of Completion from Juilliard Extension that they can proudly add to their LinkedIn profile and resume.
Students must be at least 13 years old to enroll.
Enrollment includes unlimited access to all course videos and materials for one year from your enrollment date. If you need more time after that, you can pay a monthly subscription fee to extend your access.
Most major credit and debit cards are accepted, including Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and JCB. If you enroll outside the United States, tuition is charged in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate.
You can withdraw within 24 hours of enrollment for a full refund. After that, you have up to 7 days to withdraw for a full refund minus a $100 cancellation fee. No refunds are issued after 7 days. Subscription plans can be canceled before your renewal date by emailing [email protected].
Tuition is $1,499 when paid in full. Two payment plans are also available at checkout: 4 monthly payments of $399 or 12 monthly payments of $139.
