Dance and Theater
Prince composed the music for two groundbreaking ballets choreographed by Jerome Robbins for his company Ballets USA; N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (1958) and Events (1961), as well as incidental music for the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad which Robbins directed off-Broadway in 1962.
Prince also composed and arranged music for the musicals Something More! (1964), Half a Sixpence (1965) and The Office (1966).
Read more about this topic: Ballets By Robert Prince
Famous quotes containing the words dance and, dance and/or theater:
“Lady Dynamite, let’s dance quickly,
Let’s dance and sing and dynamite everything!”
—French anarchist song of the 1880s.
“We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadium; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won’t contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That’s what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.”
—Orson Welles (1915–1984)