“Romeo and Juliet” – Dance, Opera, and Orchestra
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This 4 page report discusses three different versions of Shakespeare’s classic “Romeo and Juliet.” Charles Gounod’s opera. Prokofiev’s ballet, and Tchaikovsky’s “Fantasy Overture on Romeo and Juliet” are compared in terms of their portrayal of two of the characters of the play. In this case, the couple chosen to be examined are also one of the most well-known literary couples in the world. No bibliography.
Filename: BWromeo.rtf

“Antony Tudor’s Lilac Garden”
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A paper which looks at the structure and performance of Lilac Garden, with regard to the combination of dramatic emotion and stylised decorum in the choreography of the piece, and the way in which its internal cohesion depends on a balance of energy and formality which is difficult to achieve in terms of its narrative scope.
Filename: JLlilac.wps

“Merce Cunningham and the Philosophy of Dance”
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A ten page paper which looks at the life and philosophy of Merce Cunningham, and the way in which his radical innovation in the world of post-modernist dance contributed to the transcendence of traditional and circumscribed forms and produced a synthesis of energy and movement which was a major contribution to performance art in the last century. Bibliography lists 4 sources
Filename: JLcunningham.wps

“Singin in the Rain”
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A 3 page analysis of the 1952 classic film “Singin in the Rain.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: RAsngn.rtf

“Singin’ In the Rain”
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This 5 page report discusses the 1952 movie “Singin’ in the Rain” starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor. The paper considers the various aspects of the film but focuses on a singular “mise en scène” in which Reynolds and Kelly dance together on an empty stage against an artificially created and romantic sunset. Handsome Don takes shy, yet independent, Kathy on to an empty sound stage and the magic begins in which an entire mise en scène, in the most classic sense of both the photographic and the theatrical concept unfolds. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: BWsingin.rtf