Hellzapoppin' routine to Count Basie's "Jumpin' At The Woodside" - as it was originally intended to be.
"For Hellzapoppin', I started from the beginning of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and worked wit...
Hellzapoppin' routine to Count Basie's "Jumpin' At The Woodside" - as it was originally intended to be.
"For Hellzapoppin', I started from the beginning of "Jumpin' at the Woodside" and worked with about sixteen bars at a time, choreographing both the solos and the ensemble section as we went along. (Basie used to stay at the Woodside Hotel on 142nd Street when he played at the Savoy, and some of the jam sessions there inspired the song). I hate to keep saying I choreographed this and I choreographed that because it makes me seem egotistical, but for Hellzapoppin' I set up a routine for each team" . . . "By the second day, the musical director at Universal started sitting in on rehearsals to listen to the music and watch us dance. His job was to create a composition for our number so the studio wouldn't have to get permission to use Count Basie's song."
-- Exсerpt from "Frankie Manning: Ambassador of Lindy Hop"
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It's crazy seeing these gifted dances dressed up as domestics because that's how white audiences would accept them in a movie. I could cry. But why cry when you can laugh? After all, we've made it this far and don't need to go back. About black and white, JMP
funny that - how the people with the enormous pram look so bored, and the people getting to know each other still having fun - as long as pram-types not looking...
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About black and white, JMP
(shhhhhh!)
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I think when I posted the comment, I was also watching Josephine Baker dance with all those yawning girls in the background...
and then the CecilTheSeaMonster comment was the final trigger.
Hope that doesn't just make it more confusing...
Helen