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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.
List of contents
- 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
About the author
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.
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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.
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One of my favorite aspects of Making Broadway Dance illustrates the simultaneous development of Theatre Dance and Jazz Dance. Author Liza Gennaro does this via both robust research and oral history. This book informs you on the how, when, and why many of our iconic dance scenes were staged, often, by way of intimate details from those of direct lineage to the Broadway Titans that populate the book. I especially appreciate, being a lover of early jazz dance, that Liza chose to interweave and not marginalize the stories of the important roles that early Black pioneering choreographers played in the making of Broadway dance."-Kenneth L. Roberson; Broadway dancer and choreographer, and former Professor of Practice at Indiana University's department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance
