
- 296 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day.
This book explores the fascinating tug-and-pull between the European classical, folk, and social dance imports and America's indigenous dance forms as they met and collided on the popular musical theatre stage. This historical background influenced a specific musical theatre movement vocabulary and a unique choreographic approach that is recognizable today as Broadway-style dancing. Throughout the book, a cultural context is woven into the history to reveal how the competing values within American culture, and its attempts as a nation to define and redefine itself, played out through developments in dance on the musical theatre stage.
This book is central to the conversation on how dance influences and reflects society, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Musical Theatre, Theatre Studies, Dance, and Cultural History.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1 1492β1776: The Earliest Beginnings
- 2 1776β1866: John Durang and the Dawn of American Theatrical Dance
- 3 1866β1914: Building a Musical Theatre Dance Vocabulary
- 4 1914β1929: The Dance Director: Front and Center
- 5 1929β1943: Depression Ferments New Visions: Ballet and Modern Dance
- 6 1943β1957: Integration: Dance Narrates
- 7 1957β1968: Triple Threats Grow as Director-Choreographers Rise
- 8 1968β1975: The Concept Musical Makes Room for Dance
- 9 1975β1996: The Age of the Director-Choreographer Wanes
- 10 1996β2020: Choreography and the Musical Break Open
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index