University of Central Florida STARS Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020- 2020 Evita: A Practical Approach to Creating and Implementing Choreography for Professional Theater Kimberly Ball University of Central Florida Part of the Dance Commons Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020 University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Masters Thesis (Open Access) is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020- by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. STARS Citation Ball, Kimberly, "Evita: A Practical Approach to Creating and Implementing Choreography for Professional Theater" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020-. 12. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd2020/12 EVITA: A PRACTICAL APPROACH FOR CREATING AND IMPLEMENTING CHOREOGRAPHY FOR PROFESSIONAL THEATER by KIMBERLY BALL BSN, Western Governor’s University, 2015 A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts with a Musical Theater Concentration in the Department of Theater in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida Spring Term 2020 © 2020 Kimberly Ball ii ABSTRACT From Oklahoma!, 42nd Street, and A Chorus Line to Hairspray, Kinky Boots, and Hamilton, we have watched musical theater dance transcend conventional boundaries and open up worlds that were once unimaginable and distant. Musical theater choreography is a crucial element to the storytelling process. When dialogue, either spoken or sung, isn’t fully able to express feelings, dance is there not only to heighten the emotion, but also to reveal character depths and further the plot.