Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2000. / UMI # 9968332. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-148).

This research will examine the various techniques of writing stage directions for choreography or dance action within a feature film script. I will discuss and analyse two methodologies for annotating choreography, both developed by experts in dance notation. I will also examine and interpret the observations made by film director, dancer and choreographer Bob Fosse about the purpose and objectives of dance action in feature film scripts. I will examine two case studies of contemporary feature film scripts that contain dance action. The selected scripts are Strictly Ballroom (Australia, 1992) and Flashdance (USA, 1983). These scripts do not use a published system of dance notation to write dance action. I will analyse and investigate the stage directions for choreography and dance action used within both scripts. The exploration of these various approaches to film choreography may form the basis for writing stage directions for choreography or dance action in my own feature length screenplay titled Learning to Dance. As a screenwriter with particular interest in dance I intend to employ dance sequences at different stages throughout my script as a story telling mechanism. It is important to me to be able to clearly communicate and translate choreographic direction into my script in a manner that ensures its eventual interpretation fulfils its original purpose in the story. Therefore I am seeking a methodology for translating and expressing dance sequences in an accurate and concise written form. One key outcome of my research may be the development of a structural and technical framework for providing choreographic direction appropriate to the conventions of screenplay writing. I therefore intend to contribute to the screenwriting field by attempting to develop a framework for providing stage directions for choreography within a film script and then applying this framework within my own screenplay, Learning to Dance. In addition to the study of choreographic notation I will explore the observations made by film theorists such as Adrian Martin, Jerome Delamater, Rick Altman, J.P Telotte and Steve Neal about genres that contain dance action as a defining characteristic. It is my intention to write a screenplay that in part, borrows from the customs and codes of an established genre or subgenre. Therefore my objective is to understand, appreciate and reflect upon the genre the best fits my vision of Learning to Dance. Learning to Dance is the story of Giselle Williams (18) who aspires to be a professional dancer. When Giselle's father is arrested for fraud Giselle is forced to abandon her wealthy surrounds to live and work in one of Melbourne's tough, inner city, high-rise public housing estates. Here Giselle meets her key support roles, Muslim siblings Yasmina (21) a talented belly dancer and her handsome brother and Giselle's future love interest Ali (20) who welcome Giselle into their humble, tight knit and family oriented community.

Les Millions d’Arlequin est un ballet créé en 1900, fruit du talent et de la passion pour leur métier de deux figures significatives de la scène du Théâtre Mariinski à Saint-Pétersbourg à la fin du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle : le chorégraphe français Marius Petipa et le compositeur et chef d’orchestre italien Riccardo Drigo. 1900 est une date symbolique, la fin d’une époque et le début d’une autre, l’aboutissement du style académique dans le ballet classique russe et l’apparition de nouvelles tendances dans la chorégraphie qui vont triompher avec Les Ballets russes de Diaghilev. Nous connaissons bien les grands ballets de Petipa comme La Belle au bois dormant, Raymonda ou La Bayadère, mais une partie de l’œuvre de ce grand chorégraphe, ses ballets créés dans les années 1900, reste dans l’oubli. C’est aussi le cas pour la musique de Riccardo Drigo, qui comme la plus grande partie de la musique de ballet, est souvent reléguée au second plan. Par notre travail, grâce à une analyse détaillée de la dramaturgie musicale et à l’aide de nombreux documents que nous avons réussi à découvrir, nous aimerions faire sortir cette œuvre de l’oubli et montrer son importance pour l’histoire de la danse et l’évolution de la musique de ballet. Ce travail sur Les Millions d’Arlequin invite aussi à réfléchir sur le rapport envers les chorégraphies du passé, y compris les œuvres de Petipa, sur la nécessité et les moyens de les reconstruire, et sur la place qu’elles devraient avoir dans le répertoire actuel des troupes de ballet classique. / Harlequin’s Millions is a ballet created in 1900, the fruit of the talent and a passion for their craft of two major figures of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg in the late 19th and early 20th century: the French choreographer Marius Petipa and the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo. 1900 is a symbolic date, the end of one era and the beginning of another, the culmination of the Academic style in Russian classical ballet and the emergence of new choreographic trends that will triumph with the Ballets Russes of Diaghilev. We are familiar with Petipa’s great ballets such as The Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda or La Bayadère, but a part of the work of this great choreographer, the ballets created in the 1900s, remain in oblivion. This is also the case for the music of Riccardo Drigo, which like much ballet music is often relegated to the second class.Through our work, based on a detailed analysis of musical dramaturgy and drawing on many documents we discovered, we would like to bring this work out of oblivion and to demonstrate its importance to the history of dance and the evolution of ballet music. This work on Harlequin’s Millions also invites reflection on the place of the choreography of the past, including Petipa’s works; on the need and the ways to revive it; and on the place it should have in the current repertoire of classical ballet companies.

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