Dance in Film · 2008
Every Little Step (2008)
A close-range documentary on the 2006 A Chorus Line revival, where Broadway hopefuls absorb character, story, and exacting ensemble choreography under audition pressure while archival footage restores Michael Bennett’s original.
Every Little Step is a 2008 dance documentary centred on Musical Theatre Dance. For dancers, it's a chance to see the style performed on screen — the phrasing, partnering, and musicality that the same dances carry onto a real floor.
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The dance sequences in Every Little Step
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Archival Music and the Mirror
Musical Theatre Character DanceDanced by Donna McKechnie · Choreography Michael Bennett; Bob Avian
McKechnie alone in the rehearsal-room mirror frame driving the solo from confession into full-bodied release.
McKechnie’s Cassie turns sustained Broadway technique into an argument for the right to keep dancing. The archival passage supplies the expressive benchmark against which the revival’s hopefuls are judged without reducing their work to imitation.
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At the Ballet — Maggie auditions
Musical Theatre Character DanceDanced by Mara Davi · Choreography Michael Bennett; Bob Avian; Baayork Lee
The phrase opening into the number’s soaring final ballet refrain.
The audition asks dancers to sustain character through a long musical build, joining breath, phrasing, and emotional recall to Broadway line. Davi’s interpretation shows how an inherited number can remain personal without losing ensemble discipline.
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Dance: Ten; Looks: Three — Val audition strand
Musical Theatre Character DanceDanced by Jessica Lee Goldyn · Choreography Michael Bennett; Bob Avian
Goldyn repeating a familiar Val solo while the panel looks for the quality beyond correctness.
Goldyn’s technical precision is only the beginning: the panel searches for how movement, comic attack, and Val’s self-invention cohere. By contrasting rehearsal memory with present judgment, the film shows why exact steps do not automatically produce character.
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I Can Do That — Mike auditions
Musical Theatre Character DanceDanced by 2006 A Chorus Line revival audition candidates · Choreography Michael Bennett; Bob Avian; Baayork Lee
Different hopefuls attacking the same extroverted phrase and exposing sharply different Mikes.
The candidates have to make virtuosity read as a child’s spontaneous delight rather than an adult’s display of technique. Quick changes of weight and buoyant attack become acting choices, revealing how Broadway character dance fuses personality with steps.
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Open-call dance combination
Musical Theatre Character DanceDanced by 2006 A Chorus Line revival audition dancers · Choreography Baayork Lee
Rows of hopefuls absorbing the combination and being cut in waves.
Hundreds of bodies must learn a compact phrase almost immediately, then reproduce its rhythm, placement, and character under scrutiny. The sequence makes musical-theatre dance legible as fast cognition as much as athletic execution.
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