Top Items About Choreography
Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Images | Waterskiing stunt | ... | root | 27 | |
| Anecdotes | Ship Shape | Henri Matisse once visited a rehearsal of Parade (a play by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau, with sets by Picasso)... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Stop and Go | The pianist Oscar Levant was playing one evening when a woman arrived late and proceeded to distract the audience by... | Anonymous | 22 | |
| Anecdotes | Robert Helpmann: Swinger | Famed choreographer Robert Helpmann was once asked whether the vogue for nudity in the arts would ever extend to the world... | Anonymous | 20 | |
| Anecdotes | Stirring the Mud | In September 2002, choreographer Mark Taylor and five dancers visited some Maryland wetlands, guided by a naturalist,... | Anonymous | 19 | |
| Anecdotes | Quack Choreographer? | "Like many artists, Nijinsky had a weakness for clever toys," Lydia Lopokova once recalled. "I discovered in Chelsea... | Anonymous | 15 | |
| Anecdotes | Diaghilev | In the 1920s in Paris, Diaghilev, though buoyed by the success of his Ballets Russes, nonetheless had difficulty... | Anonymous | 13 | |
| Anecdotes | Circus Polka | "Stravinsky`s Circus Polka was composed precisely for the circus - for the Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus... | Anonymous | 13 | |
| Anecdotes | Tamiris | Lincoln Kirstein, the energetic leader of the WPA dance project, once convened all of his dancers and choreographers... | Anonymous | 11 | |
| Anecdotes | Dying Swan | "London. Palace Theatre. Pavlova dancing the dying swan [in Swan Lake]. Feather falls off her dress. Two... | Anonymous | 11 |
