Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage
eBook - ePub

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage

A History

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage

A History

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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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781032121611
eBook ISBN
9781000876024

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Prologue
  8. 1 1492–1776: The Earliest Beginnings
  9. 2 1776–1866: John Durang and the Dawn of American Theatrical Dance
  10. 3 1866–1914: Building a Musical Theatre Dance Vocabulary
  11. 4 1914–1929: The Dance Director: Front and Center
  12. 5 1929–1943: Depression Ferments New Visions: Ballet and Modern Dance
  13. 6 1943–1957: Integration: Dance Narrates
  14. 7 1957–1968: Triple Threats Grow as Director-Choreographers Rise
  15. 8 1968–1975: The Concept Musical Makes Room for Dance
  16. 9 1975–1996: The Age of the Director-Choreographer Wanes
  17. 10 1996–2020: Choreography and the Musical Break Open
  18. Epilogue
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index