本課程聚焦於美國百老匯音樂劇及延伸的電影作品，其中的舞蹈與編舞。透過性別、種族、國族與階級等不同的分析視角，本課程將帶領學生探討娛樂性流行文化中的舞蹈，如何與其更廣泛的社會脈絡相互交織。課程主題依時間順序安排，涵蓋自十九世紀晚期至二十一世紀，討論音樂劇起源、變遷與發展的繁盛。此外，亦將透過文本閱讀、影像觀賞與親身舞蹈體驗，引介若干代表性作品。 This course focuses on dancing and choreographies in American Broadway musical theatres, musical films and the outgrowths. Through selected lens of gender, race and class, we will explore how the dancing in a popular culture of entertainment is intertwined with its broader contexts. The topics are arranged in a loosely chronical order from the late 19th century to the 21st century, covering the origins, the changes, and the flourishing. In addition, selected works will be introduced through reading, videos viewing, and physical experiencing.

教學目標： 1.簡要說明美國百老匯音樂劇中舞蹈與編舞的歷史與文化脈絡。 2.具體說明百老匯音樂劇的重要人物與代表性作品。 3.以身體實作體現百老匯音樂劇中的經典舞蹈風格，作為相關社會議題的理解途徑。 學習成效： 完成本課程後，學生將能夠： 1.從視覺、象徵與語言層面分析音樂劇舞蹈動作。 2.指認百老匯音樂劇中的重要編舞家、作品與編舞風格。 3.分析舞蹈風格與編舞選擇如何與社會脈絡產生關連，並再現性別、種族、國族與階級等社會議題。

加簽規則： 創新領域學士學位學程的學生優先，剩餘的名額於第一堂課中現場抽籤，中簽者提供授權碼。修課總人數不超過75人。第一堂課後不加簽。

課前閱讀 3 小時 課後複習 1 小時 作業 2小時

主要閱讀出自下列編著： Miller, Ray. Dance on the American Musical Theater Stage: A History. New York & London: Routledge. 2023. Stempel, Larry. Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater. New York & London: W,W, Norton & Company, 2010. Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Week 1: Class Introduction Course Syllabus Week 2: What is the American Musical? Blackface Minstrelsy, Bert Williams and Ziegfeld Knapp, “Chapter 1: Contexts and Strategies,” pp. 3-18. Gottschild, Brenda Dixon. “First Premises of An Africanist Aesthetic.” In Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. pp. 11-19. Week 4: Cultural Appropriation, American Folkdance Miller, “Jazz Dance: Jack Cole and Katherine Dunham,” pp. 217-221 Miller, “Agnes de Mille,” pp. 176-183 Week 6: American Masculinity, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly Fogarty, Mary. “Gene Kelly: The Original, Updated.” In Melissa Blanco Borelli (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (pp. 83-97). Oxford University Press, 2013. Week 9: The Tradition and the Modern: Jerome Robbins Miller, “Jerome Robbins,” pp. 183-189 Sempel, “Opera, in Our Own Way” in Showtime, 367-408. Week 10: All That Jazz: Bob Fosse Miller, “Bob Fosse,” pp. 238-242 Week 11: The Sex and the Self I: Labor and Fragmented Musicals Miller, “Michael Bennett,” pp. 242-247 Week 12: The Sex and the Self II: New York and AIDS Miller, “Rent and Bring in da Noise; Bring in da Funk,” pp. 268 Week 13: Hamilton: An American Musical Severs, Jeffrey, ‘Is it like a beat without a melody?’: Rap and revolution in Hamilton.” Studies in Musical Theatre 12, no. 2 (June, 2018):141-152. Week 14: Transnational Outgrowth Donovan, Ryan, “An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance's Transnational Movements” in The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre, 14 pages

Dyer, Richard. “’I seem to find the happiness I seek’: Heterosexuality and Dance in the Musical” In Helen Thomas, ed., Dance, Gender and Culture, pp. 49-65. 1994. Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In Film Theory and Criticism : Introductory Readings. Eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. New York: Oxford UP, 1999: 833-44. Trenka, Susie. “Appreciation, Appropriation, Assimilation: Stormy Weather and the Hollywood history of Black Dance.” In Melissa Blanco Borelli (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (pp. 98-112). Oxford University Press, 2013. Acharya, Rohini and Eric Kaufman, “Turns of ‘Fate’: Jack Cole, Jazz, and Bharata Natyam in Diasporic Translation,” Studies in Musical Theatre 13, no. 1 (2019): 9-21 Stacy Wolf, “’Something Better than This’: Sweet Charity and the Feminist Utopia of Broadway Musicals” Modern Drama 47, no. 2 (Summer, 2004): 309-332. Boche, Kathaleen, “Hatchets and Hairbrushes: Dance, Gender and Improvisational Ingenuity in Cold War Western Musicals.” In Melissa Blanco Borelli (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Dance and the Popular Screen (pp. 337-350). Oxford University Press, 2014. Wollman, Elizabeth Lara, “HAIR and Its Imitators,” in The Theater Will Rock: A History of the Rock Musical, from Hair to Hedwig, 42-64. Nereson, Ariel. “Allergies, allegiances and authenticity: Bill T. Jones’s choreography for Broadway.” Studies in Musical Theatre 13, no. 1 (March 2019): 23-36.