Making Broadway dance / Liza Gennaro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gennaro, Liza, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choreography--New York (State)--New York.

Choreography.

Musical theater--New York (State)--New York.

Musical theater.

Broadway (New York, N.Y.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

'Making Broadway Dance' demonstrates that musical theatre dance is a diverse dance form employing multiple dance styles, aesthetics, and methodologies. Author Liza Gennaro, a choreographer and educator, employs a range of analytical approaches and considers influences from ballet, modern, Jazz, social, and global dance.

Contents:

Cover

Making Broadway Dance

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-063111-2

0-19-063112-0

0-19-063110-4

OCLC:

1281991530