Julie Andrews' Invitation to the dance with Rudolf Nureyev (1980)
Channel: The Julie Andrews Archive
Date: 2020-09-18

Julie Andrews' Invitation to the dance with Rudolf Nureyev

A lighthearted survey of different dance styles, including tidbits of dance history. Recorded in performance at the Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, Md. Telecast by CBS-TV in 1980.

Hosts: Julie Andrews, Rudolf Nureyev
Directed by Tony Charmoli;
Music arranged and conducted: Jack Elliott;
art direction: Gene McAvoy; 
costumes: Bill Hargate; 
dance consultant: Walter Terry.

"Anyone can dance" / performed by Julie Andrews, with the Rob Iscove Dancers. [Clog dancing] / danced by the Green Grass Cloggers. [Tap dance solo, a cappella] / danced by Sandman Sims. The sleeping beauty. Act III, grand pas de deux / choreography, Marius Petipa ; music, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky ; danced by Eva Evdokimova and Rudolf Nureyev ; lacks Aurora's variation. "Shall we dance?" from The king and I / music, Richard Rodgers ; lyrics, Oscar Hammerstein II ; performed by Julie Andrews and Rudolf Nureyev. "I've got your number" from Little me / music, Cy Coleman ; lyrics, Carolyn Leigh ; performed by Rudolf Nureyev. "My baby and me" / choreography, Bob Fosse ; performed by Ann Reinking and two male dancers. Seraphic dialogue. Martyr's solo / reconceived and rechoreographed by Martha Graham ; music, Norman Dello Joio ; danced by Peggy Lyman. [Jazz dance piece] / includes pre-recorded footage taped in the rehearsal studio ; danced by the Rob Iscove Dancers.