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Welcome to ElderwiseIn-person, online, and hybrid classes Spring Term 2025 Registration is Open > Music & Dance

Music & Dance   

  • Women and Film: Dance, Girl, Dance
    Dates: 5/7/2025 - 5/14/2025

  • ONLINE registration for this class is now closed.
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  • IN-PERSON: The Elderwise classroom at the Vineyard Church

    Dance, Girl, Dance (1940), starring Maureen O’Hara and Lucille Ball, is one of a very small number of films from Hollywood’s Golden Age that was directed by a woman – Dorothy Arzner. We will view the film in the first session, and then discuss it in the second session by looking closely at a number of specific examples from the film and considering them in relation to the film as a whole. Discussion will be supported by recent research conducted by the instructor, who is in the process of writing a book about the film and is actively interested in the Elderwise community’s ideas about it. Matthew Solomon is a professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Media at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Film, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century, which won the Kraszna-Krausz Award for best moving image book. He has also authored a BFI Film Classics monograph on Charlie Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, and, most recently, Méliès Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris.

     

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