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Bravo Team - American Dance Machine

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Title

Bravo Team - American Dance Machine

Collection

General Dance Video Archive

Names

Theodore, Lee (Narrator)
Theodore, Lee (Director)
Devlin, Jon (Dancer)
Chismar, Nancy (Dancer)
Jones, John, 1937- (Dancer)
Hyman, Larry (Dancer)
Dibianco, Karen (Dancer)
Cooperman, Thomas (Dancer)
Crofoot, Leonard (Dancer)
Estey, Carol (Dancer)
Layton, Joe, 1931- (Choreographer)
Gennaro, Peter, 1919-2000 (Choreographer)
Tucker, Robert (Choreographer)
Schwab, Buddy (Choreographer)
Field, Ronald, 1934-1989 (Choreographer)
Fosse, Bob, 1927-1987 (Choreographer)
Haney, Carol (Choreographer)
De Mille, Agnes (Choreographer)
Daniels, Danny, 1924- (Choreographer)
Diamond, Dennis (Videographer)
American Dance Machine (Dance troupe) (Dancer)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1978-07-14

Table Of Contents

1. All aboard for Broadway (excerpt from George M); chor: Joe Layton; mus: George M. Cohan. Monte Carlo crossover [and] Up to where the people are (from The unsinkable Molly Brown); chor: Peter Gennaro; mus: Meredith Willson. Next to lovin' (from Shenandoah); chor: Robert Tucker; mus: Gary Geld, Peter Udell (lyrics). Charleston (from The boyfriend); chor: Buddy Schwab; mus: Sandy Wilson. The telephone dance (from Cabaret); chor: Ron Field; mus: John Kander, Fred Ebb (lyrics). Vocabulary II; unidentified pas de deux and male solo. -- 2. Rich kids' rag (from Little me); chor: Bob Fosse; mus: Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh. Satin doll (from a television show); chor: Carol Haney; mus: Duke Ellington. Come to me, bend to me [and] Funeral dance (from Brigadoon); chor: Agnes de Mille; mus: Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics). Clog dance (from Walking happy); chor: Danny Daniels; mus: Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cohn (lyrics).

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 2614

Subjects

Charleston (Dance)
Tap dancing
Clog dancing

Genres

Filmed Dance
Filmed Performances

Notes

Venue: Taped in performance for the American Dance Festival Video Archival Project at Page Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina on July 14, 1978.
Content: Each dance is reconstructed from the original choreography in the musical comedy.
Creation/Production Credits: Narrator and director, Lee Theodore ; musical director, David Hollister ; videographer, Denis Diamond.
Performers: Performed by Jon Devlin, Nancy Chismar, John Jones, Larry Hyman, Karen Dibianco, Thomas Cooperman, Leonard Crofoot, and Carol Estey.
Funding: This videorecording was preserved with support provided in part by Save America's Treasures through a partnership between the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

Physical Description

Extent: 2 videocassettes (Digital Betacam) (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY827014426-F
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12159573
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 33b06c10-7132-0138-fa91-53dd7c16487a

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Bravo Team - American Dance Machine" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1978. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33b06c10-7132-0138-fa91-53dd7c16487a

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1978). Bravo Team - American Dance Machine Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33b06c10-7132-0138-fa91-53dd7c16487a

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Bravo Team - American Dance Machine" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/33b06c10-7132-0138-fa91-53dd7c16487a

Wikipedia citation

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