I get frustrated when dancing is used to pump audiences up, but the actual award in choreography is given off camera. The Tonys began with a big show of dancing last night. After all, that’s what gets people jazzed. But if you wanted to know who won Best Choreography, you only saw it in flashback, […]
Training in Fosse-style jazz can help deepen performances. A still of Fosse’s “Rich Man’s Frug,” from the 1969 film Sweet Charity. DM Archives. Like George Balanchine and Martha Graham, Bob Fosse is one of the rare choreographers who not only created a large body of spectacular work, but also engendered an entire stylistic cannon. His slinky, […]
Choreographing Scandalous gave Lorin Latarro a Broadway primer. Scandalous ensemble members perform “A Girl’s Gotta Do What a Girl’s Gotta Do” with Roz Ryan. Photo: Jeremy Daniel, Courtesy Scandalous. It’s not exactly a straight line: Lorin Latarro transformed herself from a Broadway-crazed kid in New Jersey to a globe-trotting concert dancer before […]
Mystery, romance, adventure—coming your way Director/choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler, who won the choreography Tony for In the Heights, returned to Broadway last month with high-flying cheerleading moves and new songs from two more Tony winners, Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Based on a series of popular movies, Bring It On, at the St. James, […]
Tonight at the Skirball, the Astaire Awards, which recognizes dance and choreography on Broadway and in films, will announce this year’s winners. It’s been a good year for choreography on Broadway. In Newsies, Christopher Gattelli created the dancing-est show on Broadway. The ensemble of newspaper boys bursts with dance in almost every scene. Ron Brown has […]
The latest in all media The Royal Ballet in Ashton’s Scènes de Ballet. Photo by Dee Conway, Courtesy ROH. DVDs Frederick Ashton: Triple Bill Les Patineurs, Divertissements, Scènes de Ballet. Opus Arte. www.opusarte.com. $29.99. Though best-known for the sunny comedy of La Fille Mal Gardée and the shimmering magic of The Dream, […]
Casey Nicholaw’s witty choreography underscored The Book of Mormon’s satire. Joan Marcus, Courtesy Book of Mormon. For most of the country, voting is a November activity. But on Broadway, elections arrive in late spring, at the end of the theater season. At press time, voters are busy sifting through nominations and marking ballots […]
It didn’t happen for Tanya Birl until she was a senior in high school. Yes, her father was always a big West Side Story fan. Yes, she’d been doing dance competitions since she was 12. Yes, she was attending the performing arts high school in Mississauga, Ontario. But every time someone suggested she turn […]
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