-- Choreography Online is celebrating eight years of developing digital pathways for dancers, choreographers, and performing artists, marking a period of continued work around access to choreography, professional development, casting, and opportunities within the performing arts. Founded around the idea that technology can help connect creative work with the people who perform it, the company has developed a range of initiatives that bring together choreography licensing, talent and audition management, education, and international dance competition.
The company’s original platform centers on the licensing of dance choreography on behalf of choreographers. Through Choreography Online, dancers, teachers, dance schools, and artistic directors can explore choreography from creators in different locations and obtain official licenses to use and perform the choreography through an online system. The platform currently features work across styles including ballet, contemporary, jazz, hip-hop, tap, acrobatic dance, and other forms, reflecting the range of approaches found across the dance community.
For Co‑founder, CEO, and President Rick Tjia, the work is closely connected to a broader question about how creative ideas move between people and places. “Dance is created by people, but it lives through the people who choose to carry it forward,” Tjia states. “Technology can provide a practical bridge between those two sides of the creative process, while allowing the choreographer’s work to remain connected to its creator.”
That principle also informs the company’s approach to rights management. Choreographers retain the rights and ownership of their work while Choreography Online manages the licensing process through its platform. The system gives choreographers a way to make selected works available for licensed performance, while dancers and organizations can identify pieces and purchase a usage license that grants official permission to use the choreography for a specified period, without transferring ownership of the work.
Over time, Choreography Online has broadened its work beyond choreography licensing. Its mission is centered on supporting dancers, performing artists, and choreographers through tools and opportunities intended to encourage creativity, career development, and professional participation. That broader focus includes JamarGig and JamarGig One, a related casting and audition management platform developed by a team with experience in casting, performing arts, and technology.
JamarGig gives production, casting, and talent professionals a digital environment for managing talent profiles, applications, auditions, and decisions, while performers can maintain profiles that can be used across the JamarGig network. Through JamarGig One, performers can also publish their portfolios publicly and use a dedicated link as a professional website or portfolio, making it easier to share videos, photos, and resumé information with potential employers and casting professionals in one place rather than sending multiple links and separate attachments. Tjia’s background as a dancer, choreographer, and casting director has informed the development of the platform, bringing experience from multiple sides of the performing arts into its design.
“Career development in the performing arts is rarely a single step,” Tjia says. “A dancer may be learning choreography one day, auditioning the next, and creating work of their own later. The systems around artists should be able to recognize that continuity and support the different stages of a career.”
Education has become another part of that broader ecosystem through the Diploma in Choreography Program, offered in collaboration with Choreography Online. The globally accessible online qualification focuses on choreography practice, creative development, and an understanding of the professional considerations that accompany a choreographic career. Its structure allows participants to develop their work through online learning while considering choreography from both artistic and professional perspectives.
Choreography Online also produces and manages the International Online Dance Competition, an annual virtual competition that brings dancers together across age groups, experience levels, and styles. The competition includes divisions spanning ballet, contemporary and jazz, hip-hop and urban dance, tap, acrobatic dance, folk and traditional dance, and choreography. Participants submit performances digitally, allowing the event to accommodate dancers from different locations without requiring travel to a physical venue.
For Tjia, these initiatives reflect a view of the performing arts as an evolving field in which artistic development and professional opportunity can increasingly intersect through digital platforms. “The future of dance will still depend on the human qualities that make performance meaningful,” he remarks. “Our role is to consider how the tools surrounding artists can give those qualities more room to develop, connect, and reach an audience.”
As Choreography Online marks its eighth year, its work continues to bring together several aspects of the dance profession through a common digital framework. From licensing choreographic works and supporting auditions to providing formal training and creating opportunities for dancers to present their work internationally, the company’s initiatives reflect an ongoing effort to connect artistic practice with the practical structures that can support a career.
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Name: Rick Tjia
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Organization: Choreography Online
Website: https://choreography.online/
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