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Dance Me a Song - Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and the American Film Musical (Hardcover)
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Dance Me a Song - Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly and the American Film Musical (Hardcover)
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Dancer-choreographer-directors Fred Astaire, George Balanchine and
Gene Kelly and their colleagues helped to develop a distinctively
modern American film-dance style and recurring dance genres for the
songs and stories of the American musical. Freely crossing
stylistic and class boundaries, their dances were rooted in the
diverse dance and music cultures of European immigrants and
African-American migrants who mingled in jazz age America. The new
technology of sound cinema let them choreograph and fuse camera
movement, light, and color with dance and music. Preserved intact
for the largest audiences in dance history, their works continue to
influence dance and film around the world. This book centers them
and their colleagues within the history of dance (where their work
has been marginalized) as well as film tracing their development
from Broadway to Hollywood (1924-58) and contextualizing them
within the American history and culture of their era. This modern
style, like the nation in which it developed, was pluralist and
populist. It drew from aspects of the old world and new, "high" and
"low", theatrical and social dance forms, creating new sites for
dance from the living room to the street. A definitive ingredient
was the freer more informal movement and behavior of their jazz-age
generation, which fit with song lyrics that poeticized slangy
American English. The Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, and others wrote
not only songs but extended dance-driven scores tailored to their
choreography, giving a new prominence to the choreographer and
dancer-actor. This book discuss how these choreographers
collaborated with directors like Vincente Minnelli and Stanley
Donen and cinematographers like Gregg Toland, musicians, dancers,
designers and technicians to synergize music and moving image in
new ways. Eventually, concepts and visual-musical devices derived
from dance-making would give entire films the rhythmic flow and
feeling of dance. Dancing Americans came to be seen around the
world as archetypal embodiments of the free-spirited optimism and
energy of America itself.
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