Choreography in Theatre and Film
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Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Choreography
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Choreography
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Author : Judy Mitoma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 1135376514
Virtually everyone working in dance today uses electronic media technology. Envisioning Dance on Film and Video chronicles this 100-year history and gives readers new insight on how dance creatively exploits the art and craft of film and video. In fifty-three essays, choreographers, filmmakers, critics and collaborating artists explore all aspects of the process of rendering a three-dimensional art form in two-dimensional electronic media. Many of these essays are illustrated by ninety-three photographs and a two-hour DVD (40 video excerpts). A project of UCLA – Center for Intercultural Performance, made possible through The Pew Charitable Trusts (www.wac.ucla.edu/cip).
Author : S. Dodds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2001-06-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0230509584
Dance on Screen is a comprehensive introduction to the rich diversity of screen dance genres. It provides a contextual overview of dance in the screen media and analyzes a selection of case studies from the popular dance imagery of music video and Hollywood, through to experimental art dance. The focus then turns to video dance, dance originally choreographed for the camera. Video dance can be seen as a hybrid in which the theoretical and aesthetic boundaries of dance and television are traversed and disrupted. This new paperback edition includes a new Preface by the author covering key developments since the hardback edition was published in 2001.
Author : Erin Brannigan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195367243
Dancefilm traces some of the most significant collaborations between dancers, choreographers, and filmmakers, and presents new models of cinematic movement that are both historically informed and thoroughly interdisciplinary.
Author : Robert Berkson
Publisher : Backstage Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 27,43 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
Provides advice on all aspects of staging dance, from understanding the score and planning the routines, through sets, costumes and props, auditioning and casting dancers, to rehearsals and the final performance.
Author : Kate Flatt
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1785006126
Choreography is the highly creative process of interpreting and coordinating movement, music and space in performance. By tracing different facets of development and exploring the essential artistic and practical skills of the choreographer, this book offers unique insights for apprentice dance makers. With key concepts and ideas expressed through an accessible writing style, the creative tasks and frameworks offered will develop new curiosity, understanding, skill and confidence. The chapters cover the key areas of engagement including what is a choreographer; getting started; improvisation and ideas; context, stage geometry and atmosphere; movement as dance in time and space; solo, duet, trio and group choreography and finally, structure and the 'choreographic eye'. This is an ideal companion for dancers and dance students wanting to express their ideas through choreography and develop their skills to effectively articulate them in performance. It is superbly illustrated with 143 practical colour and black & white photographs and diagrams. Kate Flatt has over forty years' experience as a choreographer, mentor and teacher.
Author : John E. Mueller
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Company
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 19,23 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Performing Arts
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Author : David Payne-Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 26,62 MB
Release : 1999-03-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0313003394
Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, and other Broadway musicals, he was central to that transformation. He came of age during the zenith of American musical theatre production and made his mark on both sides of the curtain. As a dancer, he gained notoriety through his work with Jeanne Tyler and Marjorie Belcher, and his experience as a performer gave him a solid foundation for his later success as an organizer of memorable productions. As a choreographer and director, he became known for spectacular numbers that blended dance, staging, and elaborate scenography. More than anyone else, he seemed to realize that the achievement of a musical depended on those spots where music, dance, lighting, costumes, and staging created a sustained narrative and emotional flow through sound and motion rather than words. This book provides the first extensive treatment of Champion's life and legendary career. The book falls neatly into two main sections. The first discusses Champion's career as a performer, with chapters on his early Broadway appearances and his work for MGM Special attention is given to how his experiences as a dancer prepared him for the later half of his career. The second examines his work as a choreographer and director and is organized around the musicals with which he was involved. Each chapter consists of a history of one or more of those productions, from original concept to opening night and sometimes beyond, as Champion, ever the perfectionist, sought to improve on what everyone else thought was already perfect. The volume is fully documented, with basic historical research conducted at several special collections. In addition, the book is based on a careful analysis of Champion's scripts, which include numerous revisions and thus illuminate how he crafted his productions. Finally, the study depends on interviews conducted with various individuals who knew and worked with Champion throughout his impressive career.
Author : Dance Films Association
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Performing Arts
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Author : Kevin Winkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190090731
"Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune is the first full-scale analysis of the work of Tommy Tune, and his place in a lineage of Broadway's great director-choreographers. The decade of the 1980s was considered a low point for the American musical. Tune's predecessors in the art of complete musical staging like Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, and Michael Bennett were either dead or withdrawn from the Broadway arena. Yet it was the period of Tune's greatest success. The book examines how he adapted to an increasingly corporatized, high-stakes producing and funding environment. It considers how Tune kept the American musical a thriving, creative enterprise at a time when Broadway was dominated by British imports. It investigates Tune's work of the last twenty-five years, when he shifted his attentions to touring and regional productions, far from the glare of Broadway. Unlike his fellow director-choreographers, Tune also maintained a successful performing career, and the book details the deft balancing act that kept him working as a popular singer-dancer-actor while directing a series of striking and influential Broadway musicals"--