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Choreographing Cabaret: A Guide To Storytelling Through Dance And Movement, Katie Claire Bradley
Choreographing Cabaret: A Guide To Storytelling Through Dance And Movement, Katie Claire Bradley
Theses and Dissertations
American Musical Theatre is one of the unique American methods of storytelling that exists in performance. In a musical, text, song, movement, and dance tell a story. In Music Theatre, when a character can no longer express what they desire in words, they sing. If singing cannot satisfy the need, the element of dance comes into play. Richard Kislan states, "What sets dance apart is the universality in movement and gesture which is not bound like language to nationality or culture. Dance transcends geography in a way that language cannot. Dance humanizes expression in a way that music cannot."(237) In …