DANC209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Busby Berkeley, The Broadway Melody, Proscenium
21 Feb 2019
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Personal aesthetic: as the individual dance viewer, you will add your own viewpoint to the experience. In the arts, this is known as your personal aesthetic your likes and dislikes which develops as a result of many experiences in your life . Kinesthetic response: body based, felt response . Ability to discern multiple meanings and abstraction. Mgms the broadway melody was the first successful movie musical. Won an oscar for best picture in 1929. First movie musical to commission an original score. Began arthur freed"s career (producer of the wizard of oz). Stage on screen was sort of dull, mostly because of the primitive recording equipment. 1927 was the birth of sound in motion picture. A new kind of movie could now be made: musicals. **didn"t get up to dancing for the camera** Berkely showed what could be done with a movie camera. A lot of that is made fun of nowadays; sometimes laughed at.
