Associate Choreography Director[Just Dance]

About Ubisoft & Shanghai Studio:

Ubisoft’s 19,000 team members, working across more than 40 locations around the world, are bound by a common mission to enrich players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Their dedication and talent has brought to life many acclaimed franchises such as Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, Watch Dogs, Just Dance, Rainbow Six, and many more to come.

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Created in 1996, Ubisoft Shanghai studio, is a vibrant and exciting place where our 600+ talents get opportunities to either co-develop great AAA blockbuster games, create cutting-edge online games or produce fun mobile games.

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*请注意该职位为第三方合同，但福利及待遇皆以育碧上海为准。
Mission:

The associate choreographer director is the core content creator in "Just Dance" team, who will full-time collaborate with the content team and will be in charge of the conception, creation and finalization of the choreographies for the game.

 编舞导演是《舞力全开》团队的核心内容创作者,将与内容团队全职合作,紧密参与到游戏编舞的构思、创作和最终定稿。

What you will do:

• Understand Just Dance brand, work closely with content team to make sure the creative consistency and respect technical constraints.
• Brainstorm with the creative core team, propose choreography direction according to music mood and character style and choose choreographer and dancers for each song
• Lead rehearsals and shootings with choreographers and dancers, ensure the quality of each choreography by giving precise and inspiring feedbacks to choreographers and dancers
• Coach dancers’ performance to ensure the dance steps and moods fits the direction of the song, direct dancers in a cheerful way during shootings
• Responsible for sourcing new choreographers and dancers to enlarge Just Dancer pool
• Give clear updates on each rehearsal and exchange ideas and solutions to improve JD choreography.
• In order to give news ideas to JD choreography, make researches and propose prototypes to the core team are necessary.
• 了解舞力全开品牌,与内容团队密切合作,确保创意的一致性,并尊重技术限制。
• 与创意核心团队团队进行头脑风暴,根据音乐情绪和角色风格提出编舞方向并为每首歌曲选择编舞和舞者
• 带领编舞和舞者进行排练和拍摄,通过向编舞和舞者提供精确和启发性的反馈,确保每个舞蹈的质量
• 指导舞者的表演,确保舞步和情绪符合歌曲的方向,在拍摄过程中以欢快的方式指导舞者
• 负责寻找新的编舞和舞者,以扩大舞力全开的人才库
• 在每次排练提供明确的最新情况,并交换意见和解决方案,以改进舞力全开舞蹈编排
• 为舞力全开编舞提供新思路,有必要进行研究并向核心团队提供样片

What you should be equipped with:

• Proven experiences in dance and performing industry
• Proficient in certain dance style and versatile in multiple dance style
• Good knowledge of dance history, dance style, resourceful of performance market, dance studio, dance competition, and agency
• Open-minded and easygoing, collaborative and detail-oriented, strong sense of responsibility , willing to express and share opinion
• Preferable graduate of performing arts, dance, music or art-related diploma degree - Good communication skills
• 丰富的舞蹈和表演经验，了解并能跳多种舞蹈风格,
• 熟悉舞蹈历史、舞蹈风格,了解演出市场、舞蹈工作室、舞蹈比赛、经纪公司等资源
• 性格开朗随和,善于合作,注重细节,认真负责, 乐于表达和分享意见
• 表演艺术、舞蹈、音乐或艺术相关专业毕业者优先
• 良好的沟通能力

Nice to have:

• Proficient in a particular style of dance
• Proficient in English
• 精通某一种舞蹈风格
• 英文流利

What you will also get: 

• An international working environment
• FUN Culture
• Lots of love from your colleagues!

Why Ubisoft Shanghai?

Be a part of the most exciting and innovating video game company in China. Come to work in Shanghai, an amazing city renowned as “Paris of the East”.

Together with a team of multi-national professionals equipped with the cutting-edge technologies, you can be assured of an experience that is both aspirational and fulfilling.

By working in Shanghai studio, you will also be offered with an array of career development opportunities, an abundant training resources, and moreover, a stimulating and creative work environment.

If you’re looking for this kind of job opportunity, you’ll find it here at Ubisoft Shanghai.

Join us for an exciting adventure and make great games!