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For the most part, dance movement itself was either the last to be mentioned by critics or ignored altogether, resulting in dance numbers in musicals going unrecorded. The only way to preserve dance movements from generation to generation was by demonstration, imitation, practice, and personal supervision.
Bullets Over Broadway: Susan Stroman: Rocky the Musical: Kelly Devine and Steven Hoggett: 2015 [60] An American in Paris: Christopher Wheeldon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett: The King and I: Christopher Gattelli: On the Town: Joshua Bergasse: Something Rotten! Casey Nicholaw: 2016 [61 ...
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.
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 – July 2, 1987) was an American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. He won seven Tony Awards for his choreography and direction of Broadway shows and was nominated for an additional eleven.
Robert Louis Fosse (/ ˈ f ɒ s i /; June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987) was an American choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and stage director.Known for his work on stage and screen, he is arguably the most influential figure in the field of jazz dance in the twentieth century. [1]
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.
Jack Cole (born John Ewing Richter; April 27, 1911 – February 17, 1974) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as "the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance" [1] for his role in codifying African-American jazz dance styles, as influenced by the dance traditions of other cultures, for Broadway and Hollywood.
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.