DANC 101 1nd Edition Exam 4 Study Guide Lectures 14 19 The Vaudeville Era o Americas early variety shows live 1890s 1930s variety acts singers dancers actors comedians Broadway o The Harlem Renaissance New York uptown island of Manhattan 1920 s rebirth interest in Black culture known as The Roaring 20 s Dresses were shortened hair wasn t long anymore Industrial revolution and early motion pictures began without sound The Flickers o The Cotton Club The in club Primarily Black people but all the audience were white o The Black Crook The Golden Age of Movie Musicals 1930 1950 o Stars that couldn t sing or dance were made to sing and dance o Choreography was much more polished and good looking girls were now being filmed Busby Berkeley o Choreographer director and camera man on Broadway o Cinematic genius innovated camera shots o Trademark Style and Camera Work What he s known for great with the camera Often filmed from above his trademark overhead shots and colorful movement motion arrangement o Instead of choreographing dancers they would arrange them in patterns and be filmed from above o 42nd Street a street for people who wanted to make it big in Broadway A film on Broadway which he helped make big because of his filming skills o Filmed as many dancers as he could Fred Astaire 1899 1987 o Wanted dance to be filmed full bodied with no cuts or weird camera angles wanted it to be filmed in a way where it feels like you re in the audience o Dressed very spiffy fashionable and elegant not athletic or boyish o Performer choreographer and director o Performed in musical theatre and was a tap dancer o Ballroom and tap dancing style o He and Ginger Roger were stars in Class Act o When MGM paired with Ginger Roger and Fred Astaire America flocked to see their motion picture movies Ginger Rogers 1911 1995 o Royal Wedding The Barclays of Broadway The Gay Divorcee Flying Down to Rio Top Hat Swing Time Holiday Inn Bill Bojangles Robinson 1878 1949 o Elegant African American control and balance o Tap dancer Hoofer in 1930s 1940s when America was segregated he and Shirley Temple dancing together showed hope and promise to America that we can one day be desegregated performed family musicals o Went from Vaudecille to Broadway to motion picture o Was the headliner of the Vaudeville circuit Shirley Temple o The Little Colonel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm o Movie Musicals Stage Musicals Broadway The West End Off Broadway Off Off Broadway o Left acting in adult years became ambassador of US Nations o Was a child star 3 story Musicals o Book Musicals from a text book or novel o Concept Musicals an idea the musical is based around it o Musical Reviews 1 2 composers loosely tied together by a story may form the music from the era Florenz Ziegfeld 1867 1932 o The Ziegfeld Follies o Put on fantastic musical reviews that later became part of Vegas Shows George Balanchine 1904 1983 Crossover from ballet to Broadway o On Your Toes Babes in Arms The Boys from Syracuse I Married An Angel o Came from Russia Katherine Dunham 1909 2006 Crossover o Cabin in the Sky Stormy Weather o Black Concert Dance Gene Kelly 1912 1996 o Singing In the Rain An American in Paris On The Town Brigadoon o Performer choreographer and director who usually filmed in Hollywood o Created his own style The American Style in Broadway and movies o Loved to film live not on a stage with a background or set o Ballroom and jazz made dance cinematic o Played the everyday average American guy dressed in khakis sweatshirts also sometimes played military roles in his films o Masculine and athletic Agnes de Mille 1905 1993 Crossover from ballet to Broadway o Ballet and Broadway and Movie Musicals o Rodeo Oklahoma Brigadoon Carousel o Dream Ballet innovator ballet section within a musical that furthers the plot of the show because they are in the dreams mind of the actor o All Ballets are set in Scotland Gower Champion 1921 1980 o 42nd Street Hello Dolly Bye Bye Birdie Carnival I Do I Do o 42nd street had an earlier connection to Busby Burkley the movie musical Jerome Robbins 1918 1998 Crossover from ballet to Broadway o West Side Story His best known piece of work a Broadway musical Best example of American Musical 1st a stage musical then a motion picture musical based on Romeo and Juliet 2 gangs sharks Puerto Ricans and jets Caucasian o Fiddler on the Roof Peter Pan The King and I Gypsy o Fancy Free 1st ballet ever preformed by a major company American Ballet Theatre Turned into a Broadway musical and movie About 3 sailors on a day in NYC sense of humor pedestrian music On the Tow was the musical ballet based on this ballet in Hollywood o Ballet to Broadway and Back o Ballet Style photography o Didn t start dancing until he was 19 natural and talented the best of the best o He was a choreographer and came up with the original story of ballet o Comfort Corset Company o Associated with NYC Ballet George Balanchine put him in charge of it after he died o Also American Ballet Theatre Twyla Tharp b 1942 Crossover contemporary dance to Broadway to ballet o Modern Contemporary Dance Movie Musicals Broadway o American Ballet Theatre o Baryshnikov by Tharp Hair Amadeus White Nights Singing in the Rain Movin Out Come Fly Away The Times They are a Changin Push Comes to Shove The Catherine Wheel o Choreographed to music by Frank Sinatra o Modern dance is the genre of the individual Gillian Lynne b 1926 Crossover o Cats Phantom of the Opera Aspects of Love The Secret Garden Chitty Chitty Bang Bang o The Royal Ballet o Worked in London as a choreographer similar to Broadway Susan Stroman b 1954 o Contact The Producers Young Frankenstein Crazy for You Steel Pier Center Stage o Revivals Showboat Oklahoma The Music Man o The next Bob Fosse o 3 stories told through dance with no talking Not a traditional musical but got a Tony award on Broadway Jazz Dance roots in African movements and rhythms o Styles traditional musical theatre lyrical funk swing hip hop o Vaudeville o 1930s and 1940s jazz dance was a part of the theatre nightclubs movie musicals and dance concerts Josephine Baker 1906 1976 crossover ethnic dance and jazz o Vaudeville performer who also danced in the Cotton Club o Very exotic best known for Bananas dance o Didn t have much fame in America so she moved to France to gain fame Jack Cole 1913 1974 Crossover Jazz to Broadway o Father of Jazz Dance Theatrical Jazz Dance Heritage o Worked closely with Bob Fosse o Kismet A Funny Thing Happened on the