GHM CREATIVE

FORMAT:

2 days

5 hours per day

Limited Capacity

First come, first serve.

NO PRIOR EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. YOU DO NOT NEED ANY CREDITS HAVING WORKED AS AN ASSISTANT OR CHOREOGRAPHER, BUT PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER IF YOU ARE NOT INTERESTED IN A COMMERCIAL CHOREOGRAPHY CAREER.

Many dancers have expressed a desire to transition into being “behind the scenes” as a Creative.

In this groundbreaking session, you will get unprecedented experience and exposure to the roles of Choreographer and Assistant Choreographer on set.

You will work as a creative team choreographing, rehearsing, staging, cleaning, and overseeing a piece as if you were hired for an industry music video for a major artist. We recreate the exact energy, flow, tension, pressure, and expectations of a real job.

The final product is NOT the focus. This is not a session that teaches you how to find your artistry as a choreographer. This session specifically focuses on how to work on a creative team in the commercial dance industry. In creating the final product, the process of learning how to run a room, how to communicate with dancers and production, how to problem solve, develop people skills, manage high stress and high-pressure demands of higher-ups, make changes QUICKLY, think ahead, pitch ideas, be creative within production limitations, and manage both those working for you and those who you work for, is the most valuable take away from this intensive.

Galen began assisting the most prolific choreographers in the industry at age 14. She was working on high-level projects like That 70’s Show, Donnie Darko, The Looney Tunes Movie, The Hughleys, and Cedric the Entertainer while still in high school.

She has since transitioned through every role on a Creative Team, with varied leaders to learn under, from Marguerite Derricks to Fatima Robinson to Jamie King, and wants to share her knowledge of an opaque industry with aspiring Creatives.

Galen is a VMA-nominated choreographer for Camila Cabello’s “Havana” music video and has choreographed every genre of artist, from Usher to Banks, and from comedy television to the Guggenheim.

Because there is no traditional training for Creatives, even the most experienced Choreographers and Creative Directors (much more experienced than Galen) have their own unique ways of approaching the job and are still learning as they go- this session is not about espousing Galen’s way of doing things, but is about giving everyone the pertinent information that is common across all creative teams, and allowing the student to develop his or her own leadership style.

The Instagram video below shows a peak into the session.

BUSINESS TOPICS:

You will be told proper rates, working conditions, agent information, technical/industry terminology, how to get work, what to expect when you book a job, the ACTUAL responsibilities for each of these roles that exist far beyond creating movement and concepts (for example, casting), and we pull back the curtain on what is truly like to live the life of these professions.

All of this will be done while you run the rehearsal and shoot as if you were hired.

If you want to be a Choreographer, there is nothing like this that exists, and you will learn in 2 days what it traditionally takes years of real-life projects to learn.