Some of Broadway's most notable dance numbers are alive and kicking—and it's all thanks to the American Dance Machine for the 21st Century!
The company, which is currently prepping for a week long performance showcase, is under the leadership of Nikki Feirt Atkins.
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This is brilliant! I really love that there is an organization out there doing their best to keep this precious choreography alive. There is something really brilliant, as McKechnie says, about passing down a move or a sequence or a number from someone who is no longer able to do it themselves; it's a kind of immortality for the choreographer that is really beautiful. This task also commands a huge amount of respect, given the immense difficulty of speaking and teaching for another person. That task is actually one of the most fascinating things to me when it comes to stage management. Though I have never done it myself, the maintenance of the artistic integrity of a show over a long period of time seems to me one of the most important and challenging parts of a stage manager's job.
Everything about this is just brilliant. I am so glad this choreography will live on.
I have mixed feelings about this idea. On the one hand, I understand the desire to extend the time during which the show is at it's absolute best, as well as preserving a piece of Broadway History, but at the same time, It also feeds back into the mindset of recycling old material over and over and over on broadway, when audiences deserve something new and exciting. Classic case of "Out with the old, In with the New," vs. "If it ain't broke don't fix it."
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