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Lanner (c. 1825) Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. [1] [2] He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake.
Britten's Peter Grimes features a Ländler in the scene where a dance night is occurring in the hall. The Sound of Music Broadway musical, the film, and the American and British live TV broadcasts (The Sound of Music Live! (2013) and The Sound of Music Live (2015)) all feature a scene where the protagonists Maria and Captain von Trapp dance a ...
The "Ländler", as performed in the film The Sound of Music, is not a traditional Ländler, but a choreographed derivative of this Austrian form of folk dance. The "Chicken Dance" is not an Austrian folk dance, nor is it from Austria. The song "Edelweiss" is not an Austrian folk song, and it is not the national anthem of Austria.
Audrey Wood Breaux (née Donella; June 7, 1927 – April 26, 2023), better known as Dee Dee Wood, was an American choreographer.She was best known for her work on musical films of the 1960s and 1970s, especially for The Sound of Music, one of the highest-grossing musicals of all time.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (born 10 March 1976) is a Belgian dancer and choreographer and director. He has made over 50 choreographic pieces and received two Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production, three Ballet Tanz awards for best choreographer (2008, 2011, 2017), the KAIROS Prize (2009) [1] and the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities (2018).
More recently, Hooks has garnered fame for YouTube videos featuring her original choreography, including "River," "Love on the Brain," "Human," "i love you," and "Best Part." [ 8 ] Hooks has directed two short films, Wait for Me and There Once Was a Woman , which she also produced, choreographed, costumed, edited, and for which she wrote ...
Composer Dan Gillespie Sells says he wanted to tell the story of young Jamie Campbell in “Everybody’s Talking About Jamie” because the central protagonist is heroic and not victimized. In ...
Abdel R. Salaam was born in Harlem, New York City.He is a choreographer, director, producer, mentor, and educator. He has been active in the arts since 1955. [1] [2] He is the co-founder and director of Forces of Nature Dance Theatre located in New York City.