Do you have to know how to dance to learn choreography?

Question:if i become a singer i wanna be a good dancer, i dont wanna dance like michael jackson or chris brown i want to take dancing to another level. i want people to see me dancing like they never saw it before but this is what i need to ask y'all . if a singer is a slow learner will it be hard for them to learn choregraphy? Will they take they time out with me and teach me the steps. what if im performing and i forget a step?
Can yall please break it down to me

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: if i become a singer i wanna be a good dancer, i dont wanna dance like michael jackson or chris brown i want to take dancing to another level. i want people to see me dancing like they never saw it before but this is what i need to ask y'all . if a singer is a slow learner will it be hard for them to learn choregraphy? Will they take they time out with me and teach me the steps. what if im performing and i forget a step?
Can yall please break it down to me

Yes, you have to know how to dance to learn choreography. Think of learning to dance as learning to read a new language: you have to understand the movement as a flowing connection between the "letters" that make "words," "words" into "sentences," "sentences" into "paragraphs," and so on. If YOU don't understand this flowing connection between the separate parts, then you can't communicate that on-stage. It doesn't matter how patient and slow a choreographer would be in teaching you the steps. If you can't internalize the movement and make it your own, your dancing would look like someone reading from a book by reciting each letter, one at a time.

By the way, Michael Jackson DID take dancing to another level. He wasn't just a singer who had outside choreographers teach him some moves. He was a groundbreaking choreographer in his own right.

And, for what it's worth, dance teachers and choreographers will work with you for as long as you like as long as you keep paying for their time. The way that people become good dancers is by paying for lots and lots of dance classes. That's how it works. There isn't some fairy godmother choreographer who pops out of a genie bottle to magically work with you once you become a big-name singer.

Well! There's an interesting question and one that I think deserves a well-thought-out answer. You say you're a singer.Okay,your sense of rhythm is in place How well do you move?That has to be taken into consideration as you,a singer,uses(or should use)his/her body like an instrument.As I say, dance training will only make you a better singer,so I would head for the nearest barre and fast! Next,you don't have to be an accomplished dancer to be a great performer necessarily.Take the great and wonderful Judy Garland for instance.She danced with some of the very best,including Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly,but,if you'll notice one important thing,"When she's dancing with someone else,who do you watch? You watch her of course and that's something that can't be learned.How do you feel when you're onstage?Do you shake in your shoes and pray to God that you don't make a fool of yourself?OR,do you go out there to knock em dead?
As for choreographers knowing how to dance in order to make dances on someone else,well,they have to have at least a working knowledge of the dance,otherwise,it would be like telling a house painter to go and see what he can do with THE Sistine Chapel

Yes, you need to know how to dance and know the terminology, so you can teach others more easily. You do not have to be a great dancer to choreograph, but you must know the basics and be a good dancer. A choreographer is also a teacher.