Balancing Act: Fiddler's "Bottle Dance and the Transformation of "Tradition

The Bottle Dance is Fiddler on the Roof was inspired by what the director/choreographer Jerome Robbins called "fresh research" at Orthodox Jewish weddings. Reshaped and expanded by Robbins's masterful showbiz sensibility, it became a show-stopping number—and, thus transformed, filtere...

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Published in:TDR : Drama review 2011-10, Vol.55 (3), p.21-30
Main Author: Solomon, Alisa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bottles
Choreography
Dance
Dancers & choreographers
Hasidic Jews
Jewish American Performance Consortium Issue, Princeton University
Jewish culture
Jewish literature
Jewish music
Jewish peoples
Literature
Musical theater
Robbins, Jerome
Shtetls
Theater criticism
Weddings
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Summary:The Bottle Dance is Fiddler on the Roof was inspired by what the director/choreographer Jerome Robbins called "fresh research" at Orthodox Jewish weddings. Reshaped and expanded by Robbins's masterful showbiz sensibility, it became a show-stopping number—and, thus transformed, filtered back out of the musical into Jewish celebrations to confer "tradition"
ISSN:1054-2043
1531-4715
DOI:10.1162/DRAM_a_00091