There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never con…

- Cholly Atkins

In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make sing…

- Cholly Atkins

Well, the difference in working with the Supremes and the other girl groups like Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes, you let the material …

- Cholly Atkins

Well, the most important thing in choreographing for a specific tune is to get the story line and try to make your movements, rather than just actual…

- Cholly Atkins

Your background has a lot to do with your approach to movement.

- Cholly Atkins

You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the ba…

- Cholly Atkins

So it would be a happy marriage between the movement and the vocal and uh, this is the thing that you give a lot of consideration to.

- Cholly Atkins

speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an except…

- Cholly Atkins