A master of social observation”, "Bourne has reached audiences that other dance-maker’s cant", “Matthew Bourne has utterly changed the landscape of dance forever” All of these compliments were to do with extraordinary unseen work, which shows that to the people which his works were aimed at he truly was a seminal artist. Bourne became a seminal artist as a result of his early life and many experiences, which inspired him and helped him pursue his
He was the son of Louis Kirstein and was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Kirstein’ first attendance of a ballet performance was at the age of twelve when Anna Pavlova came to Boston in 1920 (“Lincoln Kirstein 1907-1996”). Ballet became Kirstein’s passion. After seeing a musical with his sister and father, he wrote in his journal, “Nothing does [fill the demands of my heart and eye] like the ballet (qtd. from Kristanits).” Kirstein visited London during the summer of his junior year at Harvard and went to a Diaghilev ballet seven times in ten evenings.
During the 1950’s, Fosse moved to New York, hoping he will he will become the new Fred Astaire. During this time he appeared in the movie “Call me mister,” which caught the attention for Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. He later appeared in movies with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, but his career in movies was cut short due to him balding, so he switched to Theatre. He choreographed his first musical. He later on directed and choreographed plays like “Redhead,”
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.
This specific play is produced by a well-known playwright, Steve Martin. The play was originally written back in the year 1993, but has been put on by many different theatres across the world since then. The focus of this play is a spoof on how it would play out if there was somehow a meeting that occurred between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, one of the greatest artist and greatest thinkers ever. They are arguably two of the most influential people of the 20th century, and definitely help mold our world into what it is today. I think the topics and main themes and ideas can all be tied together into a single category because they all relate.
In 1974, Kirkland was asked by Mikhail Baryshnikov to join him as a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theater (ABT). They danced many roles together: Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, and Baryshnikov's own choreographed interpretation of The Nutcracker with himself in the title role. However, when asked to dance the role of Clara, Gelsey at first refused, and Marianna Tcherkassky ended up dancing the role in the Washington D.C. premiere of the production, but Kirkland finally did the role afterwards,
The 14-year-old girls met musician Johnny Otis. Stories on how they met vary including Otis' version in which James had come to his hotel after one of his performances in the city and persuaded him to audition her. Another story came that Otis spotted the group performing at a Los Angeles nightclub and sought them to record his "answer song" to Hank Ballard's "Work With Me, Annie". Nonetheless, Otis took the group under his wing, helping them sign to Modern Records and changing their name from the Creolettes to the Peaches and gave the singer her stage name reversing Jamesetta into Etta James. James recorded the version, which she was allowed to co-author, in 1954, and the song was released in early 1955 as "Dance with Me, Henry".
The musical takes place in the 1920’s when prohibition is going on. Jimmy Winters has just been married and him and his new wife arrive at his beach house. When they arrive, they find Shorty McGee, who they assume is their butler. In reality, Shorty is really just storing his liquor in the house, so he goes on pretending to be their butler. Jimmy received a telegram that he is still married to his first wife, Lady Katherine, or Kay, so his new bride leaves him.
In 1982 he received “The Kennedy Center Honors”, and went on into 1985 receiving a “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American Film Institute. In 1990 Gene got remarried to Patricia Ward, a writer. He worked very hard at writing his autobiography, but sadly on February 2, 1996 he died from a series of strokes, and never finished. In my opinion Gene Kelly will always be remembered by his unorthodox style of dancing, he said when asked about his dancing technique. "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."
Oral Presentation Lou Harrison was one of the great composers of the twentieth century--a pioneer in the use of alternate tunings, world music influences, and new instruments. Born in 1917 in Portland Oregon, he spent much of his youth moving around Northern California before settling in San Francisco. There he studied with the modernist pioneer of American Music, Henry Cowell, and, while still in his twenties, composed extensively for dance and percussion. He befriended another of Cowell's students, John Cage, and the two of them established the first concert series devoted to new music for percussion. They composed extensively for these concerts, including their still popular collaboration Double Music.