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This was definitely evident in West Side Story when Robbins allowed the choreography and the intense, adolescent passion of a teenage boy in love to move him. When Robbins abandoned commercial dance to pursue a career in choreography with the New York City Ballet , Bob Fosse took up the cause and argued the case for director-choreographers with ...
George Balanchine (/ ˈ b æ l ən (t) ʃ iː n, ˌ b æ l ən ˈ (t) ʃ iː n /; [1] born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; [a] January 22, 1904 [O.S. January 9] – April 30, 1983) was a Georgian-American [2] ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th-century. [3]
Dwight Rhoden - American choreographer, artistic director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet; Moon Ribas - choreographer with a cybernetic sensor attached to her body that allows her to feel earthquakes; María Noel Riccetto - Uruguayan ballet dancer; Jenifer Ringer - American ballet dancer and teacher; Jerome Robbins - American choreographer
Jerome Robbins: That Broadway Man, Booth-Clibborn ISBN 1-86154-173-2; Emmet Long, Robert (2001). Broadway, the Golden Years: Jerome Robbins and the Great Choreographer Directors, 1940 to the Present. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1462-1; Altman, Richard (1971). The Making of a Musical: Fiddler on the Roof. Crown Publishers.
Michael Kidd (August 12, 1915 – December 23, 2007) was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and who staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s.
Fred Astaire (() 10 May 1899 – () 22 June 1987), American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer, musician and actor. He was an innovator in dance. He made 31 musical films, 10 featuring his dances with Ginger Rogers, and was honored with the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
Robert Alton (2 January 1902 – 12 June 1957) was an American dancer and choreographer, a major figure in dance choreography of Broadway and Hollywood musicals from the 1930s through to the early 1950s. [1]
A large amount of Holm's choreography came from the improv and comp classes. [16] Hanya Holm taught anatomy, Dalcroze eurhythmics, improvisation, and Labanotation at her school. She taught at Colorado College, Mills College, University of Wisconsin, Alwin Nikolais School, [ 7 ] and was the Head of Dance Department in New York's Musical Theatre ...