Bravo Team - American Dance Machine
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Title
Bravo Team - American Dance Machine
Collection
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
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPY827014426-F
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12159573
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 33b06c10-7132-0138-fa91-53dd7c16487a
Rights
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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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