Hermes Pan was an American dancer and choreographer, principally remembered as Fred Astaire's choreographic collaborator on the famous 1930s movie musicals starring Astaire and Ginger Rogers. He worked on nearly two dozen films and TV shows with Astaire. He won both an Oscar and an Emmy for his dance direction.
Hermes Pan
Panagiotopoulos mansion, Aigio.
Fred Astaire and Hermes Pan working out a dance routine, c. 1937
Astaire and Pan (standing third from left) in Second Chorus (1940)
Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies in which motion or form or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies by practising the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing. It most commonly refers to dance choreography.
Choreography for the Spanish dance Cachucha, described using dance notation
One of the first documents with choreographic signs is the Catalan manuscript of Cervera from 1496