Dancing in the Dark: A History of Dance in the Movies [Virtual/Hybrid]

Virtual Zoom program/also broadcast onto our Bar Harbour Movie Screen.

The movies and dancing are a partnership born in heaven.  From its very beginnings , the new medium of motion pictures turned toward dance as one of the best ways to showcase its unique ability to make movement come alive.  And throught the decades, it's been dancing on the big screen that has provided some of the most ecstatic moments in film history -- whether it's Fred Astair gliding on the ceiling in Royal Wedding, the Nicholas Brothers leaping down a staircase in Stormy Weather, Moire Shearer priouetting through the dreamscape of The Red Shoes, or John Travolta burning up the dance floor in Saturday Night Fever.  Illustrated with more than 75 video clips, this talk will survey 130 years of thrilling movie dance performances and demonstrate the extraordinary ways cinema brought dance to life. 

Virtual multimedia lecture with Brian Rose.  Please register for Zoom link.  Or if you like we will be broadcasting the presentation the the movie screen in our Bar Harbour Auditorium.