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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTable of Contents Image List List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Dustyn Martincich and Phoebe Rumsey
Section I: Choreography and Function Chapter 1: Reading Dance: The Body in Motion Onstage Phoebe Rumsey Chapter 2: Dancing Genre: Influences on Dance in Musical Theatre Nathan James Chapter 3: Musical Theatre Dance Training: Approaches in the United States and China Mijiang He and Dustyn Martincich Chapter 4: Ensembles in Motion: Formations, Spectacle, and Unison Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers Chapter 5: Dancing Narrative: Storytelling through the Ensemble Body Amanda Olmstead Chapter 6: Storytelling through Dance: The Rise of the Dream Ballet Bud Coleman Chapter 7: Making Space, Keeping Time: Musical Theatre Dance and Temporality in the United States Joanna Dee Das
Section II: Approaches to Choreography and the Body Chapter 8: Take Off with Us: Expressing Gender and Sexuality in Golden Age Broadway Choreography Kevin Winkler Chapter 9: Asian Faces, American Bodies: Reading Asian/American Movement on the Broadway Stage Kim Varhola Chapter 10: Tap and the Broadway Musical: Subversion and Subjectivity through Historical Consciousness Benae Beamon Chapter 11: Ballet, Race, and the Great White Way Ramon Flowers Chapter 12: Conversations, Creators & Storytellers in
Contact: An Interview with Tomé Cousin Phoebe Rumsey Chapter 13: Postmodern Dance’s Legacies on the Contemporary Musical Theatre Stage Ariel Nereson Chapter 14: Movement Direction in Musical Theatre: Physical Actions and Gestural Storytelling Michael D. Jablonski and Dustyn Martincich Chapter 15: Everybody Cancan: Contemporary Musical Theatre Dance Dustyn Martincich and Alexandra Joye Warren
