Dance Theatre

Choreography:
The art of designing sequences of movements and form. Choreography may also refer to the design itself, which is sometimes expressed by means of dance notion.
The choreographer is the one who creates the choreographies.

Bob Fosse is a Director-Choreographer who forever changed the way audiences around the world viewed dance on the stage and in the film industry in the late 20th century. One play he is most famous for choreographing is Broadway's "Chicago," a story depicting Chicago during prohibition and is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the "celebrity criminal."

Susan Stroman is one of the new millennium brightest stars in theatre choreography, with four tony awards under her belt. One of the most popular/well known shows she has choreographed is "The Producers" which has won the most tony awards in broadway history.

There are different kinds of Dance Theatre.
In ballet, stories are told through dance choreography and instrumentals. Ballet performed today differs greatly from its origins. Originally the term ballet was applied to Renaissance dances of the Italian court. Only men performed, as any form of acting was considered disgraceful to women. Men dressed as women danced female parts. Though ballet is often considered French, the first ballets were danced in Italy.
Today ballet is seen in many different forms. One sees modern ballets choreographed to very modern music, but many still prefer the traditional type of footwork in ballets like “Swan Lake.” Ballet interprets music through a variety of accepted movements. More modern forms may incorporate elements from other dance traditions, but traditionalists see this as a denigration of this centuries old art form. However, from a historical point of view, ballet has always been in flux, and the current form is little over 100 years old.



Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, "musicals". In Musical Theatre dance is used to emphasize the story that is being said/sang in the dialogue.