LUIGI - from Rick McKay's "Broadway: BEYOND the Golden Age"
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- THE LEGENDARY LUIGI
1925 - 2015
This is an extended chapter from Rick McKay's upcoming 2016 film, "Broadway: BEYOND the Golden Age" about the legendary jazz dance teacher LUIGI. Longer than the chapter can be in the film, this uncut version is being unveiled to honor the great Luigi, who passed away today at 90 years of age.
I studied with him in my youth and he taught me so much more than dance. He taught all of us how to move in a dance studio, on a stage, a film set and through every day of your life.
Celebrating Luigi in this chapter are Liza Minnelli, Ben Vereen, Estelle Parsons, Elliott Gould, Bobby Morse, Kelly Bishop, Ron Dennis and many, many more.
From Producer/Director Rick McKay and "Broadway: BEYOND the Golden Age" mega-producers Anne Bernstein, Jamie deRoy, Richard Eric Weigle, Jane Klain, Fran Bator, Michael Anastasio and Celia Castevens.
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I love to see this wonderful material, I was a Luigi former student
What an inspirational, gifted, caring, and apparently kind man …. and through the magic of film we are entertained through his genius!
Such a wonderful tribute to an amazing human being and teacher. He reignited my love of dance as well as the teachers he trained at his studio in the 80's.
So happy to have found this wonderful tribute to Luigi. Once in a while, when an average 'guy' like me went to a class, I would be surprised to see Elliott Gould, Alexis Smith, or Tina Louise in my class. There was even a very robust, bearded man who was with the NY Shakespeare festival in the front row doing floor work with us. Luigi would always teach combinations at the end of class so that one would be able to pick up steps quickly if auditioning. I never intended to be a professional dancer, which was a good decision as I was really pretty bad at it.
I just took the class because I loved to dance and also, being a new high school teacher, I needed to relieve the stress. Took classes 3 nights a week. I went to an audition with a friend who was a go-go dancer (yes, long time ago). It was for the road company of a NY show and only she and I showed up for the audition. She had twisted my arm because she didn't want to go alone. I'd quit the teaching job by then and was painting. My poor friend, just familiar with "go-go" was rejected for the show because the choreographer said she could never learn the 9 numbers in a week, at which time they were going on the road. Lucky for me one didn't have to be a really good dancer for this show, but for Luigi's teaching us combinations at the end of class, I was able to pick up steps. I only accepted the job because I thought I would probably never get to all of those cities on the road. Now, I'm a senior citizen with two hip replacements, but I have great memories of those classes which gave me the opportunity to visit cities I probably never would have seen. I feel so lucky to have found Luigi's classes and to have been under his wonderful influence for the few years I was with him. I'm so happy that this video is international and contains all the wonderful tributes that it does.
terrific. what years di you study/work with Luigi? where?
Thank you for posting this. He will be missed, but his light will shine on.
Great video!
This is fantastic, Rick. Thank you for this tribute!
Goodnight papa.
We need to petition IMDB to add him to all these films as they claim the cast lists are "closed".
He's due all the credit he's earned. And more.
Love love love !
Great piece, Rick.
Love this so much!
Im from across the river in Follansbee,WV, I only wish that I could have met him in person, He sounds like a wonderful man..and not to mention very talented...
Try to find a teacher who actually studied with Luigi at his NYC studio. If you find someone who studied with a teacher who studied with a teacher who studied with a teacher who studied with Luigi, you will probably just be better off with a Jane Fonda DVD.
Janet Paparelli , I was a travel RN for over 20 years. I was born and raised in WV so I would come home a couple months a year to visit my elderly mother. She started needing more help, so I stuck around the area to help out. Then the inevitable came, I fell on ice in front of my own house and broke my coccyx and sacrum and blew out 3 discs in my back. I had back surgery and least to say that the Nursing career that I loved came to an abrupt end. I felt useless, both mentally and physically. I was an acrobat in the 70s and gave lessons to small children in a nearby small town while I was in High school years ago. You can only imagine the depression that I fell in, barely able to walk and I had drop foot on the left, and giving up Nursing was really hard, but nobody will work a RN on the floor that can not lift.I was not one of those nurses that would point the finger and tell others to do small tasks, I thrived on the hands on care that I gave my patients. When everyone else gave up on them physically I was the encourager, even if they could only move their fingers I made them realize that that in its self was a great accomplishment.After my accident I was then sunk in self pity..That is until I came across an obituary in our local newspaper for Luigi, I have always been a God fearing woman and I honestly believe that on that particular day I was drawn to read the obit column, I rarely read them..Then I googled his name, and found his videos. I started doing his techniques and exercises. I still have a lot of pain but I give Luigi second to God credit that I can still get around. Oh I use a cane because I never know when that darn foot will drop on me and I worry about falling and getting more fractures..But I started doing the exercises used for Jazz warm ups standing next to my kitchen sink. My makeshift bar to grab in case I lost my balance. Thanks to the encouragement along with those exercises I have gotten most of my social life back..I started looking at my cup of lemonade half full instead of half empty. He helped a lot of people that had a lot more ailments than I did as well as his own..I am very grateful to have found all this info it has been a life changer for me that's for sure.
Where did this come from???? Yikes, its me!!
Yea, whatever. God bless him for his life experience. No critique there.
Artistically seen, no.That was not art. I saw it. I too was there then at that time.
Mattox was the artist. and the genius. His legasy unfortunately has been terribly documented by good meaning amatures .