Fiddler On The Roof Wine Bottle Dance

A friend of mine ryan was called in to audition for one of those men in fiddler on the roof.

Fiddler on the roof wine bottle dance. The cinematography is simply amazing from the dim interior lighting to the slow motion dance steps to the dust being kicked up from the dirt floor during the dance sequence. Take it from a photographer who knows light and classic movies the wine bottle dance scene from the 1971 movie fiddler on the roof is extraordinary. Six things you may not have known about fiddler on the roof. Matthew rossoff matthew kilgore robbie roby rick pessagno the company in a scene from the famed bottle dance in fiddler on the roof now playing at best of broadway photo by joan marcus joan.

The dance part of the audition consisted of doing a bit of that choreography but without the bottles. Talent not tricks makes this bit if theatre magic work. He observed one man entertaining a crowd by tottering around with a bottle on his head. Broadway references have included spamalot where a grail dance sends up the bottle dance in fiddler s wedding scene.