Over the course of this past year I have been reaching dance and the mind of a choreographer. As a dancer myself and an aspiring choreographer, I wanted to understand how to create and perform a memorable and powerful modern dance. I spoke with four different choreographers and obtained interviews from three as well as researched famous choreographers online. My goal was to understand how they went about choreographing a dance and why they did it that way. The results were very straightforward. Although each choreographer is different and tastes change from person to person one thing was clear. The most important thing to every choreographer was the audience. Every choreographer I spoke with and researched considered the audience when creating the dance and when performing the dance. They wanted the audience to leave at very least feeling as if their money had been well spent and that their time wasn't wasted; however, most of the choreographer's wanted even more than that. A majority of them wanted the audience to leave with a message, a thought, or a feeling, to them expand upon on their own. That's why I chose to look at modern dance specific. It's a very free and expressive style that allows the choreographer to convey anything from an entire story to a simple theme to the audience. The choreographers were using dance as way to influence others and get their ideas out there. Aside from this being extremely intriguing to me it also taught me something beyond choreography. It taught me how important communication is. It taught me to consider who I was speaking to or trying to get a point across to and speak in a way they would understand, whether it be simply or not. This research project taught me that if I was to get anywhere in life- be it in dance either as a dancer or choreographer, or anything else- I had to consider others and sometimes tailor myself to others to get what I want. A choreographer is held responsible to an audience, they want a well done dance, they want to be captivated, but that requires understanding the audience and then showing them what they want- be it costumes or a certain type of music- or props. Life is the same to get what you want you must also give to other what they want. This year was an eye opening experience to me in ways I never expected when I signed up for my research class.