Dance Homework – Research Task Katherine Dunham Katherine Dunham was born on June 22nd 1909. Dunham had many great talents as well as dance and choreography. She was an artist, anthropologist, author, manager, movie star, activist, producer, educator, wife and mother .She was inspired by caribbean dance and African culture which gave her the idea to bring them together. She became first interested in dance when she began studying ballet in 1928. She was then accepted to the University of Chicago in 1929 as an anthropology major in which she focused on dance.
Astonish Me Graeme Murphy is Australia's greatest and most productive choreographer, has been Artistic Director of the Sydney Dance Company since 1976. He was born in 1950 in Melbourne in but spent much of his childhood in Tasmania. His parents were primary school teachers at Graeme’s local primary where he attended also. Although it was ‘unusual’ for boy’s to dance, his parents knew that Graeme liked the lime light since the early years of school. There were a few years between Graeme wanting to dance and being able to dance.
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.
Chantal Taylor Dance 203 2 September 2013 Famous jazz teachers and dancers Bob Fosse was a famous actor, film director, screenwriter, dancer and musical theatre choreographer. He was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago Illinois. He was the second youngest of six children. When he was younger he teamed up with another young dancer and started a group called “The Riff Brothers,” and they toured around the Chicago area. During the 1950’s, Fosse moved to New York, hoping he will he will become the new Fred Astaire.
They gravitated to the studio of the eclectic Gluck Sandor, who operated his Dance Theatre in a loft in uptown Manhattan. Robbins was 18 when he began his studies, which were later supplemented with training in popular dance, Spanish dancing, and classical ballet. Slight in build and too old to aspire for a career as a danseur noble, Robbins excelled in expressionistic dances, in comedy and in activities requiring inventiveness and imagination. Author Jowitt makes it clear that as a late teen-ager he had potential for pursuing any number of occupations in the arts. His expressive diaries and poems show an extraordinary gift for words.
Dance 330 Prof. Liz Lapuh Tap Class Dance Critique Brian Santora’s Tap Class Brian Santora began his dance training 23 years ago. He has trained in such styles as classical Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip Hop and more since the age of 3. He has performed and trained with numerous professional productions. Brian has had the privilege of working with some of the top dancers and choreographers in the country. He has participated in the Dance Olympus in Boston where he taught Tap.
Buzz Dance Theatre (originally called 2 Dance) was formed in 1985, by Derek Holtzinger. It is based in Perth, Western Australia, in the Kings Street Arts Centre. It began touring schools and communities in Western Australia in 1986, and added three more dancers to the original members of the company. The company was funded by the WA Arts Council and the Education Department of WA, and aimed to educate young people through dance. There are 25 members in Buzz Dance Theatre; 2 actors, 6 dancers, numerous directors, a lighting designer, artistic director, sound designer, composer, playwright and managers.
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.
Name: Vanessa (Joyleen) Amorosi Born: On the 8/8/81 Where: In Melbourne Birthday this year: 8/8/08 Genre of music: Pop/rock When she was 4 she started tap, jazz and ballet classes run by her uncle. When aged 12 she started performing in local shopping centers and local concerts. When aged 15½ she got discovered by Jast Strorm while singing in a Russian restaurant. Awards Some of the awards that Vanessa Amorosi has got over the years…… 2001 got young entertainer of the year. 2002 got award from Governor General of Australia for Kids Help Line 2002 got Young Victorian of the Year 2003 got Career Achievement Award Pets Vanessa Amorosi has a number of pets and they all are…… A frog A mouse A rat A bird A guinea
Willy Russells-Blood Brothers GCSE Drama Coureswork The musical prodouction, Blood Brothers was born in the mind of Willy Rusell and was presented for very first time in a Liverpool school play in 1981. The production then advanced into a full-scale play which opened in the Liverpool playhouse in 1993 staring such famous actresses as Barbara Dickson and Andrew.C.Wadsworth. With such success the play moved onto London for an astonishing six months before finally closing. However the play reopened in the Albery Theatre in London in 1988 before transferring it to the Phoenix Theatre, where it has been running ever since. The play itself is a twisted tale of two twins who were separated at birth due to money and superstition.