Bloomer Girl (choreography)

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Bloomer Girl (choreography) is a landmark mid-1940s Broadway dance work by Agnes de Mille that blended American folk motifs with narrative ballet to advance character and story onstage.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Broadway dance work
ballet-based stage work
theatrical choreography
artForm ballet
dance
musical theatre
associatedWith Agnes de Mille’s development of narrative dance
basedOn American folk motifs
choreographer Agnes de Mille
countryOfOrigin United States
creator Agnes de Mille
culturalContext American musical theatre
firstPerformedIn 1940s
genre American folk-inspired dance
musical theatre choreography
narrative ballet
hasInfluenced integration of dance and storytelling in musical theatre
subsequent Broadway narrative choreography
hasSubject American identity
American social themes
historicalContext World War II era Broadway
languageOfWork English
movement Golden Age of Broadway
narrativeFunction advances character development
advances story onstage
notableFor blending American folk motifs with ballet vocabulary
integration of dance with narrative in a Broadway musical
partOf Bloomer Girl (musical)
performanceMedium Broadway stage
placeOfPerformance New York City NERFINISHED
relatedWork Carousel (choreography)
Oklahoma! (choreography)
significance considered a landmark Broadway dance work of the 1940s
timePeriod mid-1940s
usesStyle American folk dance
ballet
theatrical character dance

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Agnes de Mille
notableWork

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