"I don't have a name for my style of dancing...It's certainly hybrid...I've borrowed from the modern dance, from the classical, and certainly from the American folk dance – tap-dancing, jitterbugging...But I have tried to develop a style which is indigenous to the environment in which I was reared." Credits: http://dance.about.com/od/famousdancers/p/Gene_Kelly.htm
Ballet Theatre offered him a smorgasbord of roles, including the occasional turn as a classical cavalier but generally in dramatic or comic assignments. He worked under Mikhail Fokine, Leonide Massine, Anton Dolin, Antony Tudor, and Agnes de Mille. Within two years he was allowed to portray the role of Petrouchka in Fokine’s popular ballet and succeeded Leonide Massine as the Gypsy dancer in “Capriccio
His warm-ups technical promotes body alignment, balance, core strength, and “feelings from inside.” This method became the first know technique in jazz and musical theatre. Luigi developed ballet-based techniques after a car incident, where he suffered parlaying injuries. After being injured, he was determine to dance, so he first learned how to remain control of his body, and developed techniques so he would not put strain in the body and “put the good side into the bad side.” Then he focused on how he could stabilize himself, by pressing down on a invisible dance barre. After doing this, he was able to dance again, and became a successful dancer and dance teacher. He worked with many “well known” celebrities like, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Doris Day, and Cyd Charisse, and over five decades he and his dance students has spread his dance techniques all over the world.
Gene Kelly choreographed several dance and drama films, one called “An American in Paris” (1951). Michael Kidd is also an outstanding choreographer, who produced motion picture choreographer, in which dance further is the story line. Debbie Reynolds was another familiar name in movie musicals of the 1950’s. She was not a trained dancer but had great stage charisma. Her breakthrough in 1950 was in “Two Weeks with Love”, starring
Abe Burrows explains this in his autobiography Honest, Abe. While How to Succeed... was in its early development, producer Cy Feuer attended a trade show and was extremely impressed by an elaborate dance number created by Lambert, prompting Feuer to hire Lambert to choreograph the new musical. According to Burrows, it soon became clear in rehearsals that Lambert's creative abilities were completely used up in that one elaborate dance number. Bob Fosse was brought in to replace him, but Fosse was unwilling to hurt Lambert's career by having him fired. Lambert's trade-show dance number was recycled as the "Treasure Hunt" dance in How to Succeed..., while Fosse agreed to take a "musical staging" credit for choreographing all the other dance numbers.
But soon he married a dancer, Alexander Danilova. Balanchine began to stage dances for the Cochran Revues in London, and was retained by the Royal Danish Balletin Copenhagen as guest ballet master. In 1933, Lincoln Kristein became interested in ballet and soon had a dream of establishing ballet company in United States. His first goal was to convince Balanchine to come with him to U.S, fairly quickly he agreed and went to U.S. Balanchine had all of it planed out. He thought of teaching the young and influencing the kids into getting interested in ballet style of dancing.
Australian Dance Theatre Work: G Artistic Director: Garry Stewart History and Purpose Australian Dance Theatre has been owned and operated by numerous choreographers that have impacted and influenced the path of the dance company. Dr. Elizabeth Cameron Dalmon established the company in 1965 and sought to “open the horizons for provocative contemporary and cutting edge dance.” Elizabeth Dalman School of Modern Dance was what the company was called from 1965-1975. After the first performance from the company in Adelaide, critics were divided over the company’s new and adventurous approach. However, audiences were enthralled from the very beginning. In 1967, Dalman provided the public with an insight into the company through school classes, workshops, pre- and post- show forums/discussions during the company’s infancy.
US Pole Dance Federation (USPDF) was founded in the beginning of 2008 by Anna Grundstrom and Wendy Traskos. It’s the first organization in the US to host professional pole dancing competitions based on a fair judging format. In 2008, there were no credible pole competitions in the US that determined the winner by a professional score system. Competitions were often held in clubs, where the applause of a crowd determined the winner. United States Pole Dance Federation (USPDF) While this didn’t seem fair, the USPDF decided to present pole dancing as a competitive sport in a theater setting where people could truly appreciate the art of pole dancing.
At first when he signed on to do The King and I he was under the impression that “he only had to do (that) one ballet” (Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theatre, His Dance, pg 46) but he did end up choreographing many other dance sequences like “Getting to Know You” or “The March of the Siamese Children”. “Robbins planned the scene to delight both Anna and the audience. Some carry out their duties in exemplary fashion, which highlighted the different ones and the tiniest provide a high degree of adorable and some concern they’ll screw up” (Jerome Robbins: His Life, His Theatre, His Dance, pg
New York City Ballet George Balanchine was born in 1904 and was raised in St. Petersburg. As the son of a composer, Balanchine’s piano study began at the age of five. After graduating from the Imperial Ballet School in 1921, Balanchine enrolled at the state’s Conservatory of Music where he studied piano and musical theory. Balanchine’s musical background gave him an advantage over other choreographers because he more fully understood the music he was dancing to (“Biography”). The first time George Balanchine danced was as a cupid in the Maryinsky Theatre Ballet Company Production of The Sleeping Beauty, his favorite ballet (“George Balanchine”).