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Choreographers
Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.Mostly human for now
- 02Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.Mostly human for now
- 03Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.Mostly human for now
- 04Record dance movements and their technical aspects, using a technical understanding of the patterns and formations of choreography.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Direct and stage dance presentations for various forms of entertainment.Mostly human for now
- 06Choose the music, sound effects, or spoken narrative to accompany a dance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Experiment with different types of dancers, steps, dances, and placements, testing ideas informally to get feedback from dancers.Mostly human for now
- 08Seek influences from other art forms, such as theatre, the visual arts, and architecture.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Develop ideas for creating dances, keeping notes and sketches to record influences.People already use AI for this at work
- 10Coordinate production music with music directors.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss8%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
27%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 53% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Direct rehearsals to instruct dancers in dance steps and in techniques to achieve desired effects.
- Advise dancers on standing and moving properly, teaching correct dance techniques to help prevent injuries.
- Teach students, dancers, and other performers about rhythm and interpretive movement.