Dance Me a Song explores how Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and others led to the rise of a distinctive dance style as a crowning achievement of twentieth-century dance and cinema.
Dance Me a Song explores how Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, and others led to the rise of a distinctive dance style as a crowning achievement of twentieth-century dance and cinema.
Beth Genné is Professor of Dance History and Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Dance Department and the Arts and Ideas concentration of the Residential College. She has written numerous book chapters on British ballet and dance in film (including Gene Kelly and Vincente Minnelli) and articles in such journals as Dance Research, Dance Chronicle, and Art Journal. She has contributed criticism and feature articles to The Dancing Times of London. She was Director of research for Balanchine's musical films for the Popular Balanchine Project of the George Balanchine Foundation. Her first book, The Making of a Choreographer, was on the early training and choreographic development of Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet.
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* Contents * Introduction: The Synergy of Sound and Moving Image * Part I. From Stage to Screen * 1. No Limitations I: Astaire's Outlaw Style and its New World Roots * 2. No Limitations II: Astaire's Roots in Social Dance, Ballet, and Other Forms * 3. Old World Meets New World on Broadway: Balanchine, Astaire, Dukelsky, Gershwin, Minnelli, Rodgers and Hart, Josephine Baker * 4. Ballet Meets Jazz in Hollywood: Balanchine and the Film Ballet * 5. Dancing with the Camera, Dancing in the Street: Introducing Kelly and Donen * Part II. Film Dance Genres * 6. Seduction Dances: Astaire, Kelly, and Song and Dance as Courtship * 7. Freedom Incarnate: The Dancing Sailor as an Icon of American Values in World War II * 8. Dancing in the Street: Courtship, Euphoria, and Despair * 9. The Dream of Courtship: The Cinematic Dance Drama * 10. Making Film Dance: The Through-Composed and Through-Choreographed Musical * 11. Legacy * Appendix I. Timeline * Appendix II. Dance Genres
* Contents * Introduction: The Synergy of Sound and Moving Image * Part I. From Stage to Screen * 1. No Limitations I: Astaire's Outlaw Style and its New World Roots * 2. No Limitations II: Astaire's Roots in Social Dance, Ballet, and Other Forms * 3. Old World Meets New World on Broadway: Balanchine, Astaire, Dukelsky, Gershwin, Minnelli, Rodgers and Hart, Josephine Baker * 4. Ballet Meets Jazz in Hollywood: Balanchine and the Film Ballet * 5. Dancing with the Camera, Dancing in the Street: Introducing Kelly and Donen * Part II. Film Dance Genres * 6. Seduction Dances: Astaire, Kelly, and Song and Dance as Courtship * 7. Freedom Incarnate: The Dancing Sailor as an Icon of American Values in World War II * 8. Dancing in the Street: Courtship, Euphoria, and Despair * 9. The Dream of Courtship: The Cinematic Dance Drama * 10. Making Film Dance: The Through-Composed and Through-Choreographed Musical * 11. Legacy * Appendix I. Timeline * Appendix II. Dance Genres
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