“DANCING LADIES”

BIBLIOGRAPHY Billman, Larry. Film Choreographers and Dance Directors: An Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia, with a History and Filmographies, 1893 through 1995. Jefferson, NC: McFarland &, 1997. De Mille, Agnes. And Promenade Home. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958. De Mille, Agnes. Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham. New York: Random House, 1991. Easton, Carol. No Intermissions: The Life of Agnes De Mille. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. Hirschhorn, Clive. Gene Kelly: A Biography. New York: St. Martin's, 1984. Kurth, Peter. Isadora: A Sensational Life. London: Little, Brown, 2001. Lerman, Liz. Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2011. Levin, Alice B. Eleanor Powell: First Lady of Dance. Potomac, MD: A.B. Levin, 1997. McKenzie, Robin. Treat Your Own Back. Waikanae, N.Z.: Spinal Publications, 1997. Soren, David. Vera-Ellen: The Magic and the Mystery. Baltimore, MD: Luminary, 2003. Spain, Louise. Dance on Camera: A Guide to Dance Films and Videos. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. Thomas, Bob, and Fred Astaire. Astaire: The Man, the Dancer. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985. Thomas, Tony. That's Dancing. New York City: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. Wigman, Mary. The Language of Dance. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1966.

VIDEOGRAPHY Any Astaire Movie! That’s Dancing (MGM 1985) – Gene Kelly is executive producer and narrator Dancing (WNET – PBS 1993) Eight Segments Dancing Lady (MGM 1933) Astaire & Rogers Shall We Dance (RKO 1937) Astaire & Rogers Gay Divorcee (RKO 1934) Astaire & Rogers Ziegfeld Follies (MGM 1948) Astaire & Kelly doing “The Babbit and the Bromide”, their only appearance together (Cyd Charisse and Lucile perform several times) Broadway Melody (MGM 1940) Eleanor Powell, Astaire The Band Wagon (MGM 1953) Cyd Charisse & Astaire Silk Stockings (MGM 1957) Cyd Charisse & Astaire Cover Girl (Columbia 1944) Gene Kelly, Rita Hayworth On the Town (MGM 1949) Kelly, Sinatra, Munchin, Vera Ellen, Ann Miller, Betty Garret An American in Paris (MGM 1951) Kelly & Lesie Caron. Kelly’s famous ballet scene – Academy Award. It’s Always Fair Weather (MGM 1955) Kelly, Kidd, Dailey, and Cyd Charisse Hello Dolly (20th Century Fox, 1969) Micahel Kidd is choreographer, Kelly directed, Barbara Streisand. Kismet (MGM 1955) Jack Cole choreographer Down to Earth (Columbia 1947) Jack Cole choreographer, Rita Hayworth, Marc Platt, Larry Parks The King and I (20th Century Fox 1956) Jerome Robbins, choreographer; Yul Brynner, Debora Keer, Rita Moreno. West Side Story (MGM/United Artists 1961) Jerome Robbins choreographer, and co-director with Robert Wise; dancers: Russ Tamblyn, George Singing in the Rain (MGM 1952) Kelly, choreographer and dancer, Debbie Reynolds, Stanley Donen co-directed, Cyd Charisse in “Broadway Melody Ballet”) Anchors Aweigh (MGM 1945) Kelly choreographer (nominated for Best Actor), Frank Sinatra & Jerry the Mouse The Pirate (MGM 1948) Gene Kelly, choreographr, exciting pirate ballet, “Be a Clown” with Nicolas Brothers Oklahoma! (Rogers & Hammerstein 1954) Agnes deMille choreographer, Dream Ballet with Bambi Lynne and James Mitchell Kiss Me Kate (MGM 1953) Hermes Pan, Choreographer, Shirley MacLaine, Chita Rivera, Paula Kelly Damn Yankees (Warner Bros. 1958) Bob Fosse choreographer, Gwen Verdon and Fosse do “Who’s Got the Mambo” Pajama Game (Warner Bros. 1957) Bob Fosse choreographer, “Steam Heat” with Carol Haney Turning Point, Michael Baryshnikov, Leslie Brown, and number classical ballet stars Chorus Line (Embassy Film 1985) Jeffrey Hornaday choreographer (Broadway Show – Michael Bennett)

DANCING LADIES Lecture by Patricia Enoch Art Seminar Group, December 6, 2016

GOAL To show some of the women who changed dance in the 20th century: Some developed new movement and training methods; some were simply excellent performers; some were choreographers who used dance to further story lines in musicals; some (almost al) raised the level of the art of dance.

• Marie Taglioni (1804 – 1884)

• Anna Pavlova (1881 – 1931)

• Isadora Duncan (1877 – 1927)

• Ruth St. Denis (1879 – 1968)

• Katherine Dunham (1909 – 2006)

• Martha Graham (1894 – 1991)

• Doris Humphrey (1895 – 1958)

• Agnes de Mille (1905 – 1993)

• Hanya Holm (1893 – 1992)

• Agrippina Vaganova (1879 – 1951)

• Lucia Chase (1897 – 1986)

• Ninette de Valois (1898 – 2001)

• Margot Fonteyn (1919 – 1991)

• Moira Shearer (1936 – 2006)

• Onna White (1922 – 2005)

• Graciela Daniele (1939 - )

• Susan Stroman (1954 - )

• Eleanor Powell (1912 – 1982)

• Liz Lerman (1947 - )