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Making Broadway dance

Author: Search for this author Gennaro, Liza (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Liza Gennaro
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: [2021]
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Pres
Media group: Buch
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"Musical theatre dance is an ever-changing, evolving dance form, egalitarian in its embrace of any and all dance genres. It is a living, transforming art developed by exceptional dance artists and requiring dramaturgical understanding, character analysis, knowledge of history, art, design and most importantly an extensive knowledge of dance both intellectual and embodied. Its ghettoization within criticism and scholarship as a throw-away dance form, undeserving of analysis: derivative, cliché ridden, titillating and predictable, the ugly stepsister of both theatre and dance, belies and ignores the historic role it has had in musicals as an expressive form equal to book, music and lyric. The standard adage, "when you can't speak anymore sing, when you can't sing anymore dance" expresses its importance in musical theatre as the ultimate form of heightened emotional, visceral and intellectual expression. Through in-depth analysis author Liza Gennaro examines Broadway choreography through the lens of dance studies, script analysis, movement research and dramaturgical inquiry offering a close examination of a dance form that has heretofore received only the most superficial interrogation. This book reveals the choreographic systems of some of Broadway's most influential dance-makers including George Balanchine, Agnes de Mille, Jerome Robbins, Katherine Dunham, Bob Fosse, Savion Glover, Sergio Trujillo, Steven Hoggett and Camille Brown. Making Broadway Dance is essential reading for theatre and dance scholars, students, practitioners and Broadway fans"--

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Author: Search for this author Gennaro, Liza (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Liza Gennaro
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: [2021]
Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford University Pres
Works included: 1. Musical Theater Dance Training and Choreography in the 1920-1930s, 2. Oklahoma!: Americana and Dance Modernism / 3. Agnes de Mille on Broadway: 1943-1945, 4. Jerome Robbins on Broadway: 1944-1951 / 5. Taking the Reins: Emergence of the Director-Choreographer, 6. Broadway Dance: Post de Mille/Robbins / 7. Broadway Dance: Plague and the New Millennium
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ISBN: 9780190631093
Description: X, 239 Seiten, Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß)
Tags: Choreography; Musical theater; Broadway (New York, N.Y.)
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Language: Englisch
Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
Media group: Buch