“I’m Gonna Shake and Shimmy” or may be not: choreographing Hairspray–a practice as research project
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© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Using practice as research as my methodology I examine whether it is possible to choreograph Hairspray - the Musical while staying true to the movement principles developed by Kurt Jooss and Sigurd Leeder in the Jooss-Leeder Method. In discussing the process and the product I explore also the difficulties in choreographing for, and teaching the dances to, a cast of 15–18-year-olds in a school where there is no dance in the curriculum at this level. I conclude that selected Jooss-Leeder movement principles provide a useful framework for choreographing the musical numbers, that Leeder’s organic teaching process is effective for these novice dancers and that a lack of dance experience does not preclude a successful production.Citation
Lidbury, C. (2019) “I’m Gonna Shake and Shimmy” or may be not: choreographing Hairspray–a practice as research project, Research in Dance Education, DOI: 10.1080/14647893.2019.1620718Publisher
Informa UK LimitedJournal
Research in Dance EducationType
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1464-7893EISSN
1470-1111ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/14647893.2019.1620718
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