Making Broadway Dance

Making Broadway Dance demonstrates that musical theatre dance is a diverse dance form employing multiple dance styles, aesthetics, and methodologies. Author Liza Gennaro, a choreographer and educator, employs a range of analytical approaches and considers influences from ballet, modern, Jazz, social, and global dance.

Liza Gennaro is Associate Dean and Director of Musical Theatre at The Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Gennaro is an accomplished choreographer, elected member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Executive Board, a Tony Voter, and in 2015 she completed a three-year term on the Tony Award Nominating Committee.

- Introduction - Chapter 1: Musical Theatre Dance Training and Choreography in the 1920-30s - Chapter 2: The Road to Oklahoma!: Americana and Dance Modernism - Chapter 3: Agnes de Mille's Broadway: 1943-45 - Chapter 4: Jerome Robbins: "Run of de Mille" The Evening Bulletin, September 16,1947 - Chapter 5: Taking the Reigns: Emergence of the Director-Choreographer - Chapter 6: Post de Mille/Robbins - Chapter 7: Broadway Dance: Plague and The New Millennium - Conclusion - Index