Liza Gennaro

Making Broadway Dance (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Through in-depth analysis of musical theatre choreography and choreographers, Making Broadway Dance challenges long-held perceptions of Broadway dance as kitsch, disposable, a dance form created without artistic process. Setting out to demonstrate that musical theatre dance is not a monolith but rather multi-varied in terms of dance styles, aesthetics and methodologies, author Liza Gennaro provides insights into how Broadway dance is made. By examining choreography for musical theatre through the lens of dance studies, script analysis, movement research and dramaturgical inquiry, she treads in uncharted territory by offering a close examination of a dance form that has heretofore received only the most superficial interrogation. She also explores how musical theatre choreographers create within the parameters of librettos, enhance character development and build dance languages that inform and propel narrative. By considering influences from ballet, modern, postmodern, Jazz, social and global dance, she reveals a rich understanding of musical theatre dance. This book exposes 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, and is essential reading for theatre and dance scholars, students, practitioners, and Broadway fans.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190631109
• Artikelnr.: 63039579

Autorenporträt

Liza Gennaro is Associate Dean and Director of Musical Theatre at The Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Gennaro is an accomplished choreographer, elected member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Executive Board, a Tony Voter, and in 2015 she completed a three-year term on the Tony Award Nominating Committee.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1: Musical Theatre Dance Training and Choreography in the
1920-30s
* Chapter 2: The Road to Oklahoma!: Americana and Dance Modernism
* Chapter 3: Agnes de Mille's Broadway: 1943-45
* Chapter 4: Jerome Robbins: "Run of de Mille" The Evening Bulletin,
September 16,1947
* Chapter 5: Taking the Reigns: Emergence of the Director-Choreographer
* Chapter 6: Post de Mille/Robbins
* Chapter 7: Broadway Dance: Plague and The New Millennium
* Conclusion
* Index