Conversations with Choreographers

By Svetlana Grody and Dorothy Lister

Book Overview

This book contains interviews with a dozen choreographers on and about their technical approach to choreography.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0435086979
• ISBN13: 9780435086978
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Heinemann Drama
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Resouce

In a field where resources for musical theatre choreographers are few and far between, this text is exceptional, in-depth, and insightful. The interviews are informative and delve into the very personal choreographic processes. An excellent resource!

Interviews with people you should know...

The editorial review gives a great description - if you are a dancer or choreographer in today's business, you will want to read about how those who have succeeded got where they are. Hermes Pan, who did more than 60 Hollywood musicals; Joe Layton of Broadway's Once Upon a Mattress, Sound of Music, and George M!, and the film Thoroughly Modern Millie; Lee Theodore, originaly in West Side Story and founder of The American Dance Machine; Michael Bennett and Bob Avian, creators of A Chorus Line; Pat Birch, choreo. of the film Grease and so much more; Larry Fuller of Evita; Tommy Tune of many Broadway shows; Graciela Daniele of Ragtime, AGYG, and A New Brain; Dan Siretta of Goodspeed Opera House; Wayne Cilento, original dancer in A Chorus Line and Dancin'.It tells how they started, who inspired them, and what they look for in casting and collaborators. I highly suggest it!