At that time it was a series of sophisticated social dances whose steps were often combined with other steps devised by the choreographer.

Although the press reported that he was engaged to vaudeville dancer and choreographer Rose Rolanda in 1924, Hopwood's close friend Carl Van Vechten confirmed in later years that it was all a publicity stunt.

Lee Blakeley directed and Andrew George was the choreographer.

The production was directed by Randal K. West, with Justin Hill as musical director and Adam Cates as choreographer.

In 1947, Bardot was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, and for three years she attended the ballet classes of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

Playford was not the author or choreographer of these dances ; he was a music publisher, for whom dance manuals were a profitable sideline.

Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).

He had agreed to work on The Girls Upstairs if Sondheim would agree to work on Company ; Michael Bennett, the young choreographer of Company, was also brought onto the project.

Eugene Curran " Gene " Kelly ( August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996 ) was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director and producer, and choreographer.

As co-director, lead star and choreographer, Kelly was the central driving force.

It was written to a libretto furnished by Nahum Tate, and performed in 1689 in cooperation with Josias Priest, a dancing master and the choreographer for the Dorset Garden Theatre.

* Bob Fosse, a noted jazz choreographer who created a new form of jazz dance that was inspired by Fred Astaire and the burlesque and vaudeville styles.

She was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988 – 1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Cole's video for " Pink Cadillac " in 1988.

From 1980 to 1995, the Ballet was run by dancer and choreographer Todd Bolender.

It was also due to the success of the video that Abdul was chosen to be the choreographer for the Jacksons ' Victory tour.

The director was Charles Morey and choreographer Patti D ' Beck, with a cast of nearly 30.

The director was Scott Elliott, the choreographer Aszure Barton, and, while not adored by the critics, the production was nominated for the " Best Musical Revival " Tony award.

Set designs were by Peter Corrigan ; costume design by Anna Cordingley ; lighting design by Paul Jackson and the choreographer was Kate Denborough.

It was an international collaboration, with director Zhang Yimou as choreographer and Zubin Mehta as conductor.

He was offered a commission by choreographer Leonid Massine, of the New York Ballet Theatre to design the sets and costumes for his new ballet, Aleko.

Royston Maldoom, OBE ( born 1943 in Harrow, London ) is a British choreographer whose works, including Adagietto and Ursprung, have been performed for various dance companies, such as The Jefferson Dancers and Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Royston Maldoom ’ s career as a choreographer began in1972 when he received a major Gulbenkian Foundation award for his work in a royal Ballet Workshop.

Royston has worked extensively in Germany as choreographer of the European youth dance festival in Duisburg, The Britisch-Deutscher Jugendtanzaustausch in Berlin in 1989 to 1991, visiting choreographer to the Hochschule für darstellende Kunst Ballet School, Frankfurt, and most recently with the Berliner Philharmoniker.

* Katherine Dunham, an anthropologist, choreographer, and pioneer in Black theatrical dance.

A theatrical ballet adaptation by the British choreographer Matthew Bourne premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London in November 2005.

Uday Shankar ( 8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977 ) (), the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance, which he later popularized in India, Europe, and the United States in 1920s and 1930s and effectively placed Indian dance on the world map.

Raoul Auger ( or Anger ) Feuillet ( c1653 – c1709 ) was a French dance notator, publisher and choreographer most well-known today for his Chorégraphie, ou l ' art de décrire la danse ( Paris, 1700 ) which described Beauchamp-Feuillet notation, and his subsequent collections of ballroom and theatrical dances, which included his own choreographies as well as those of Pécour.

The only factors that are personally set by the choreographer are the movements themselves, the number of the dancers, and the approximate total duration of the dance.

The role of the lighting designer ( or LD ) within theatre is to work with the director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and sound designer to create the lighting, atmosphere, and time of day for the production in response to the text, while keeping in mind issues of visibility, safety, and cost.

Sussman had assembled a team of 35, including an architect, a set designer, a choreographer, a costume designer, actors, actresses, and a film crew.

Most of the audition scenes were shot at Haaren, except for the dance audition, and subsequent dance scenes in this same room ( with the pillars ) which used the second floor converted dance studio at P. S 122 which had been set up by choreographer Charles Moulton.

The production team included choreographer Jayne Luke, music director Michael Rice, set designer George Maxwell, costume designer Carol Wells-Day, lighting designer Dennis Parichy and sound designer Matthew Tibbs.

His art began appearing in group exhibitions in 1979, as he worked as a set designer for modern dance choreographer Jim Self in Manhattan.

Director Prachya Pinkaew and choreographer Panna Rittikrai are set to return for this film.

Writer Norman Corwin, choreographer Bella Lewitzky, folk singer Pete Seeger, composer Meredith Willson, folk artists Josef Marais and Miranda, painter Francoise Gilot, Native American artists Fritz Scholder and Maria Martinez and photographer Ansel Adams are just a few of the artists who have taught at Idyllwild Arts and helped set the standard for arts education in the Summer Program.

From The New York Times: " Though the work featured memorable dance sequences by a choreographer on the rise named Michael Bennett, what really set it apart was its score, written by the solid-gold pop composer Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David.

A cast also rapidly shaped up around Crawford with the input of the new director and choreographer in a fresh set of auditions, with then-ingenues Mandy Gonzalez and Max von Essen in the young lead roles of Alfred and Sarah, Rene Auberjonois ( after similar prolonged negotiations to Crawford's ) as Professor Abronsius, Ron Orbach ( late of the out-of-town run of The Producers ) as Chagal, and rising talent Julia Murney as Magda, among others

( the Muppet Theater's Christmas " Spectacular Spectacular " opens with a number set at the " Moulin Scrooge ," which climaxes as Miss Piggy dons the role of Satine and performs " Santa Baby "), Cirque du Soleil ( feebly adapted by an apathetic choreographer as the " Cirque du So Lame "), A Beautiful Mind ( when Dr. Honeydew works out the money needed to save the theater's finances by doodling on a window, and, after listening to Beaker squeak, responds, " Why, thank you, Beaky, I think you have a beautiful mind, too "), For Dummies books ( Daniel is given a book called Performing Miracles for Dummies ), and the old Gift of the Magi comedy routine ( coming to a crashing halt in this film when one of the participants forgot to sell or buy anything ).

With Mike Nichols set to direct and Tommy Tune on board as choreographer, Carr searched for executive producers and found them in Fritz Holt and Barry Brown, who immediately fired the entire creative team that Carr had assembled.

It is featured in the 1980 movie Urban Cowboy, whose choreographer, Patsy Swayze, claims that she set the song's tempo.

A yotzer is a choreographer who selects a particular piece of music, usually Israeli, and arranges a set of steps to fit with that music.

For years, it had been rumoured that the name was changed to Mickey because Basil was fond of The Monkees ' lead singer Micky Dolenz after meeting him on the set of their movie Head as a choreographer ; however, this claim has been disputed by Basil, who said she didn't know Dolenz that well.

Bruce, who currently holds the title of associate choreographer, has set nine works on the company, including four pieces created especially for Houston Ballet.

After working as a freelance choreographer for The Miracles, Atkins was hired by Berry Gordy to work as a Motown choreographer in 1964, and set about developing the routines that would later become the trademark moves of other Motown acts like The Supremes, The Temptations ( Atkins was also featured in the video for their hit single " Lady Soul "), The Four Tops, Gladys Knight & The Pips and others.