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MDT 361: Choreographic Styles: Builders

Builders of Musical Theatre Choreography

Susan Stroman

Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators; 2005, p206-223,(e-book)

ML 1711 .A77 B79 2005

Chapter VII and Appendix D in Kerry Lee Grave's dissertation The Emerging Prominence of Women Choreographers (search in Google Scholar)

Bullets over Broadway - 1:24 -1:53, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA0Krpcyr60

Michael Bennett

Conversations with Choreographers by Svetlana McLee Grody & Dorothy Daniels Lister

MD 1785 .A1 G76 1996

Broadway the Golden Years by Robert Emmet Long MD 1785 .A1 L66 2001

A Chorus Line and the Musicals of Michael Bennett

PN 2287 .B4323 M36 1989

A Chorus Line - 1:29- 2:12, both jazz and ballet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htLGQ3CDODY; resource https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O64VMIFU850

Gillian Lynne

The Song of the Body p.47-52

MD 1781 .S66 R69 2014

CATS - :40-1:18, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiaGOdHU7dk

Bill T. Jones

Story/Time: the life of an idea by Bill T. Jones

PS 3610 .O617 S76 2014

Last night on earth by Bill T. Jones

MD 1785 .J64 A3 1995

Numerous DVDs at MD 1785 .J64 and .J66

His TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4DD3dgfvS0

Dance Biographies

The call number for biographies of dancers and choreographers is MD 1785.

MD 1785 .A1 -- these are biographies of multiple dancers and/or choreographers

MD 1785 .A3-A9 - biographies of dancers/choreographers whose surnames start with the letter A

This format continues through MD 1785 .Z -- surnames begin with the letter Z