American Jazz
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- Created on: 31-01-22 10:29
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- American Jazz 1940-1975
- Gene Kelly 1912-1996
- On The Town 1949
- Singin in The Rain 1952
- An American in Paris 1951
- Style
- Dance and Film
- Fierce tapping, athletic jumps and quick-fire changes of pace
- beefy stroung limbs, jumps light but effortful
- Influences
- Physique and Personality
- Acrobatics and Athletics
- Camera
- Ballet
- Fred Astaire, Agnes De Mille, Stanley Donen and Vincente Minelli
- 2 years of war service with naval air service, worked in photographic unit
- Semi- professional ice hockey,football, baseball and gymnastics
- Vaudeville
- Film and location
- Ziegfeld Follies
- Irish roots
- Jerome Robbins 1918-1998
- Funny Girl
- West Side Story
- Style
- Social Dance and Ballet
- Characterisation, Rhythmic complexity and dynamic variation
- challenged musical theatre expectations by presenting street gangs, traditional stories about upper classes
- Influence
- Agnes De Mille Dances equal importance to drama and music in storyline
- Ballet company Ballets USA
- Bob Fosse 1927-1987
- Chicago
- Cabaret
- Damn Yankees
- Style
- Jazz
- mechanical Latin hip movements
- Closing off sensuality with harsh abstraction
- slow, angular sensuality
- Hip rolls, hunched shoulders, pigeon toed feet, articulated hands, turned in knees
- Punctuated hand movements, finger snaps, sideways shuffling, jazz hands, white gloves and black bowler hats
- Influences
- Fred Astaire, Burlesque, vaudeville and Gwen Verdon
- Jack Cole 1911-1976
- Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend
- Marilyn Monroe
- Feminie, sexual and sensual
- Inspired by Madonna and Kylie Minogue
- Flirts with 20 male dancers in white tie & tails
- Micro Choreography
- Marilyn Monroe
- Inspired
- Matt Mattox
- Jerome Robbins
- Bob Fosse
- Style
- Modern Dance
- In the Floor
- Femininity & Masculinity
- Wide 2nd Position, feet turned out
- Arms wide, hands making intricate shapes
- Sensual
- Demanded Perfection
- Emphasized rhythm and body isolation
- Physically and Mentally demanding
- Influences
- Indian Dance
- Gwen Verdon
- Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend
- Agnes De Mille 1905-1993
- Rodeo 1942
- Oklahoma! 1943
- Carousel 1945
- Influences
- Ballet Rambert
- New York Ballet Theatre
- Stroke in 1975
- Toured US and Europe in 1929-1940
- Choreographed 15 musicals and 21 Ballets
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- Style
- Intergrated choreography into actual plotline
- Conveyed emotions, thought and struggles pf character and progressd storyline
- Realism, ballet, vernacular movement and modern psychology
- American themes, folk dances
- Narrative
- Gene Kelly 1912-1996
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