Dance 101 1st Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Last Lecture I The Vaudeville Era II The Golden Age of Movie Musicals III Busby Berkeley Outline of Current Lecture II Infinity Showcase III Ballet Stars of New York IV Film of Gene Kelly and Jerome Robbins Current Lecture Movie Musicals Stage Musicals Broadway The West End Off Broadway Off Off Broadway o Size of house tells whether a show is Broadway Off Broadway or Off Off Broadway 3 Story Musicals o Book Musicals from a text book or novel o Concept Musicals an idea and muscal based around it o Musical Reviews 1 or 2 composers loosely tied together by a story may from the music from the era Florenz Ziegfeld 1867 1932 o Put on fantastic musical reviews that later became part of Vegas Shows The Ziegfeld Follies musical review George Balanchine 1904 1983 o Came from Russia o Crossed over to Broadway On Your Toes about a ballet company from Eastern Europe that came to US and combined tap Dancing into the show Babes in Arms The Boys from Syracuse Shakespeare play I Married An Angel Katherine Dunham 1909 2006 Black concert dance Cabin in the Sky Broadway musical with Alvin Ailey Stormy Weather Film musical with Lena Horn Gene Kelly 1912 1996 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o o o o o o o Created his own style The American Style in Broadway and movies Lived to film live not on a stage with a background or in a set Ballroom and Jazz made dance cinematic and was a true film maker Played the everyday average American guy character dressed in khakis sweaters sweatshirts Sometimes played military roles in his films Had a masculine quality athletic Usually filmed in Hollywood Singing In the Rain best known work An American in Paris On The Town Brigadoon Concert on Thursday When you take notes on each ballet o Movement the style of dance How the dance begins and ends o What makes each dance distinctive o Music live recorded exc o Costumes do they communicate What is dance communicating o Lighting mood time of day location o Sets not the backdrop this is a piece of furniture or a wall o Prop things carried on and off by dancers Hoodie is used as a costume and prop how o Reaction to ballet how do you react What mood does it give you Infinity Showcase Thursday night concert 1 The fruit of her hands choreographer tori white jazz and tap piece 13 dancers taken something from bible proverbs 31 Be the Woman that you re called to be 2 Governing Culture choreographer Allison Yeguchi music young liars newton forgive me president John F Kennedy conformity is a jailor of freedom and enemy of growth 3 Babble 2nd half of piece music by Philip glass and lecture by Carl Sagan think about yourself who you are and what defines you chances are you re work defines you your everyday task what if you were no longer able to do would your hands become dust So what are we more than dust 4 Utopia choreographer Mary Clemens not guided by a storyline but influenced by movement for the sake of movement dynamics distribution of weight variations of high and low music by Mercoff 5 Ren choreographer Raya Huse hip hop piece male dancer broke his arm ren means the people in Chinese the world is dangerous because the people don t do anything about the evil people quote by Albert Einstein 6 Love in progress choreographed by Camille sellers only piece with live music composed and created for her dance live on cello 7 Take the leap contemporary dance solo and then 20 dancers for finale Ballet Stars of New York Friday night concert 1 2 3 4 o 5 NYC principal dancers join USC dancers and local male dancers not at USC o Leading dancer Sarah Murnes went to USC o All works from George Balanchine Arregril Brilliaunt very elegant swirling dance arregril means fast packed full of stuff turns showoff steps Diamonds pas de deu dance for 2 a thank you for his background at Russian imperial ballet part of the dance jewels Tarantella also a pas de deu dance for 2 showcases great showmanship sense of humor and Neapolitan flair Stars and stripes ballet thank you to America patriotic containing as much pure dancing as many full length classical ballets