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Eugene Louis Faccuito

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Eugene Louis Faccuito(known as Luigi) (March 20, 1925 – April 7, 2015) was an American jazz dancer, choreographer, teacher and innovator who is best known for creating a jazz exercise technique. [1]

78 relations: Annie Get Your Gun (film), Antonio Fini, Anything Goes, Ballet, Brigadoon, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Broadway Theater Project, Broadway theatre, Bronislava Nijinska, California, Can-can, Carousel, Choreography, City University of New York, Coma, Contortion, Dance Magazine, Dean Martin, Donald Saddler, Ed Koch, Edward Bowes, Ethel Merman, Fernando Lamas, Fred Astaire, G.I. Bill, Gene Kelly, George Balanchine, Girl Crazy, Happy Hunting, Harkness Ballet, High School of Performing Arts, Hollywood, Horace Heidt, Jacob's Pillow Dance, Jazz dance, Jazzercise, Joffrey Ballet, June Taylor, Lewis, Louis Armstrong, Me and My Shadow, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metropolitan Opera, Michael Zaslow, Musical theatre, New Guinea, New York City, New York University, Nick Castle, Nita Bieber, ..., Ohio, Olympic Games, On the Town (film), On Your Toes, Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Philippines, Pittsburgh, Radio City Music Hall, Rainbow Studios, Robert Alton, Sarah Lawrence College, Singin' in the Rain, Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, SLS Las Vegas, Steubenville, Ohio, Studio Maestro, Teacher, Ted Lewis (musician), The Happy Time, The New Moon, The New York Times, The Original Amateur Hour, Theatre Development Fund, Theatre of ancient Greece, United States Navy, West Virginia, Whoop-Up, World War II. Expand index (28 more) »

Annie Get Your Gun (film)

Annie Get Your Gun is a 1950 American musical Technicolor comedy film loosely based on the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

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Antonio Fini

Antonio Fini (Calabria, Italy, March 26, 1983), also known as Antonio Pio Fini, is an Italian born modern dancer, choreographer, and director.

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Anything Goes

Anything Goes is a 1934 musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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Brigadoon

Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, and music by Frederick Loewe.

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Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is an American nonprofit organization, headquartered in New York City.

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Broadway Theater Project

The Broadway Theatre Project is an intensive training program for both high school and college-aged students that want to hone their skills in the industry of musical theatre.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Bronislava Nijinska

Bronislava Nijinska (Bronisława Niżyńska; Бронисла́ва Фоми́нична Нижи́нская, Bronislava Fominichna Nizhinskaya, Браніслава Ніжынская); (– February 21, 1972) was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Can-can

The can-can (or cancan as in the original French) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day.

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Carousel

A carousel (American English: from French carrousel and Italian carosello), roundabout (British English), or merry-go-round, is a type of amusement ride consisting of a rotating circular platform with seats for riders.

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion, form, or both are specified.

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City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY) is the public university system of New York City, and the largest urban university system in the United States.

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Coma

Coma is a state of unconsciousness in which a person cannot be awaken; fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light, or sound; lacks a normal wake-sleep cycle; and does not initiate voluntary actions.

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Contortion

Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers, contortionists, showcase their skills of extreme physical flexibility.

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Dance Magazine

Dance Magazine is an influential American trade publication for dance published by the Macfadden Communications Group.

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and film producer.

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Donald Saddler

Donald Edward Saddler (January 24, 1918 – November 1, 2014) was an American choreographer, dancer, and theatre director.

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Ed Koch

Edward Irving Koch (December 12, 1924February 1, 2013) was an American lawyer, politician, political commentator, movie critic and reality television arbitrator.

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Edward Bowes

Edward Bowes (June 14, 1874 – June 13, 1946), who generally called himself Major Edward Bowes, was an American radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s whose Major Bowes Amateur Hour was the best-known amateur talent show in radio during its 18-year run (1935–52) on NBC Radio and CBS Radio.

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.

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Fernando Lamas

Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos (January 9, 1915October 8, 1982) was an Argentine-American actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.

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Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Gene Kelly

Eugene Curran Kelly (August 23, 1912 – February 2, 1996) was an American dancer, actor of film, stage, and television, singer, film director, producer, and choreographer.

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George Balanchine

George Balanchine (born Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze; January 22, 1904April 30, 1983) was a choreographer.

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Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan.

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Happy Hunting

Happy Hunting is a 1956 musical with a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, lyrics by Matt Dubey, music by Harold Karr, original choreography by Alex Romero, assistant choreographer Eugene Louis Faccuito (Luigi).

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Harkness Ballet

The Harkness Ballet (1964–1975) was a New York ballet company named after its founder Rebekah Harkness.

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High School of Performing Arts

The High School of Performing Arts, formally The School of Performing Arts: A Division of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, is a public alternative high school in New York City, USA.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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Horace Heidt

Horace Heidt (May 21, 1901 – December 1, 1986) was an American pianist, big band leader, and radio and television personality.

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Jacob's Pillow Dance

Jacob's Pillow is a dance center, school and performance space located in Becket, Massachusetts, in the Berkshires.

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Jazz dance

Jazz dance is the performance dance technique and style that emerged in America in the early twentieth century.

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Jazzercise

Jazzercise is a dance fitness franchise company founded by Judi Sheppard Missett in 1969 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

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Joffrey Ballet

The Joffrey Ballet is a professional dance company resident in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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June Taylor

Marjorie June Taylor (December 14, 1917 – May 16, 2004) was an American choreographer, best known as the founder of the June Taylor Dancers, who were featured on Jackie Gleason's various television variety programs.

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Lewis

Lewis (Leòdhas,, also Isle of Lewis) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Me and My Shadow

"Me and My Shadow" is a 1927 popular song.

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (initialized as MGM or hyphenated as M-G-M, also known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or simply Metro, and for a former interval known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, or MGM/UA) is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of feature films and television programs.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Michael Zaslow

Michael Joel Zaslow (November 1, 1942 – December 6, 1998) was an American actor.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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New Guinea

New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Nick Castle

Nicholas Charles Castle Jr.

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Nita Bieber

Nita Gale Bieber (born July 18, 1926) is an American film and stage actress.

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Ohio

Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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On the Town (film)

On the Town is a 1949 Technicolor musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green.

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On Your Toes

On Your Toes (1936) is a musical with a book by Richard Rodgers, George Abbott, and Lorenz Hart, music by Rodgers, and lyrics by Hart.

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Pacific Ocean theater of World War II

The Pacific Ocean theater, during World War II, was a major theater of the war between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Radio City Music Hall

Radio City Music Hall is an entertainment venue located at 1260 Avenue of the Americas at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Rainbow Studios

Rainbow Studios Inc. is an American video game developer known for their off-road racing video games involving motocross bikes and all-terrain vehicles.

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Robert Alton

Robert Alton (28 January 1906 – 12 June 1957) was an American dancer and choreographer, a major figure in dance choreography of Broadway and Hollywood musicals from the 1930s through to the early 1950s.

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Sarah Lawrence College

Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in the United States.

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Singin' in the Rain

Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical-romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds.

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Slaughter on Tenth Avenue

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a ballet with music by Richard Rodgers and choreography by George Balanchine.

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SLS Las Vegas

The SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas (formerly Sahara Hotel and Casino) is a hotel and casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada.

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Steubenville, Ohio

Steubenville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States.

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Studio Maestro

Studio Maestro is a ballet school in New York City founded in 1995 by Rose Caiola.

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Teacher

A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values.

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Ted Lewis (musician)

Theodore Leopold Friedman (June 6, 1890 – August 25, 1971), known as Ted Lewis, was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician.

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The Happy Time

The Happy Time is a 1952 American film directed by the award-winning director Richard Fleischer, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Robert Fontaine, which Samuel A. Taylor turned into a hit play.

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The New Moon

The New Moon is the name of an operetta with music by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel, and Laurence Schwab.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Original Amateur Hour

The Original Amateur Hour is an American radio and television program.

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Theatre Development Fund

The Theatre Development Fund (TDF) is a non-profit corporation dedicated to assisting the theatre industry in New York City.

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Theatre of ancient Greece

The ancient Greek drama was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from c. 700 BC.

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United States Navy

The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.

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West Virginia

West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States.

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Whoop-Up

Whoop-Up is a musical with music by Mark Charlap, lyrics by Norman Gimbel, and book by Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin, based on Stay Away, Joe by Dan Cushman.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Louis_Faccuito

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