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Author:   Phoebe Rumsey ,  Dustyn Martincich
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Methuen Drama
ISBN:  

9781350235526

ISBN 10:   1350235520
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   14 December 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents Image List List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey Section I: Choreography and Function Chapter 1: Reading Dance: The Body in Motion Onstage Phoebe Rumsey Chapter 2: Dancing Genre: Influences on Dance in Musical Theatre Nathan James Chapter 3: Musical Theatre Dance Training: Approaches in the United States and China Mijiang He and Dustyn Martincich Chapter 4: Ensembles in Motion: Formations, Spectacle, and Unison Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers Chapter 5: Dancing Narrative: Storytelling through the Ensemble Body Amanda Olmstead Chapter 6: Storytelling through Dance: The Rise of the Dream Ballet Bud Coleman Chapter 7: Making Space, Keeping Time: Musical Theatre Dance and Temporality in the United States Joanna Dee Das Section II: Approaches to Choreography and the Body Chapter 8: Take Off with Us: Expressing Gender and Sexuality in Golden Age Broadway Choreography Kevin Winkler Chapter 9: Asian Faces, American Bodies: Reading Asian/American Movement on the Broadway Stage Kim Varhola Chapter 10: Tap and the Broadway Musical: Subversion and Subjectivity through Historical Consciousness Benae Beamon Chapter 11: Ballet, Race, and the Great White Way Ramon Flowers Chapter 12: Conversations, Creators & Storytellers in Contact: An Interview with Tomé Cousin Phoebe Rumsey Chapter 13: Postmodern Dance’s Legacies on the Contemporary Musical Theatre Stage Ariel Nereson Chapter 14: Movement Direction in Musical Theatre: Physical Actions and Gestural Storytelling Michael D. Jablonski and Dustyn Martincich Chapter 15: Everybody Cancan: Contemporary Musical Theatre Dance Dustyn Martincich and Alexandra Joye Warren

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Dustyn Martincich is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at Bucknell University. Phoebe Rumsey is a Senior Lecturer in Musical Theatre and Course Leader of the BA (Hons) Musical Theater degree at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Benae Beamon is a scholar and artist. Her scholarship focuses on religion, ethics, and culture, specifically black cultural expressions as they intersect with ritual and reflect moral imagination. Bud Coleman is the Roe Green Professor of Theatre and Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder. Tome’ Cousin is a Full Professor of Dance in the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University. Joanna Dee Das is an Associate Professor in the Performing Arts Department at Washington University in St. Louis and an affiliate of the Program in American Culture Studies. Ramón Flowers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance in the Jordan College of the Arts, at Butler University. Mijiang “M-Jay” He is a Chinese actor, director, choreographer, and musical theater educator. Michael D. Jablonski is an Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre and Program Coordinator for the BFA Music Theatre program at Brenau University. Nathan James is the Managing Director or The Dang Academy and former Director of HE Programmes at the Urdang Academy, London. Ariel Nereson is an associate professor of dance studies and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers is currently a PhD Theatre Candidate at The Ohio State University and a recipient of the AAUW American Fellowship for 2022-23. Amanda Olmstead (she/her) received her PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and BA in Theatre and Dance from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Kim Varhola is an Assistant Professor of Drama and Musical Theatre at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea. Alexandra Joye Warren is currently an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at Elon University and a Director/Choreographer for the Music Theatre program. Kevin Winkler enjoyed a career of more than twenty years as a curator, archivist, and administrator at the New York Public Library, prior to which he was a professional dancer.

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