Check out video clips from productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor with interesting dance and movement.

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Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: Choreographer Harrison McEldowney on the role of dance in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
Title of Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Date of Performance: December 3, 2013- January 19, 2014
Location of Performance: The Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier
Producer: Not available
Director: Barbara Gaines
Performers: Kelli Fox, Scott Jaeck, Heidi Kettenring, Ross Lehman, et. al.
Choreographer: Harrison McEldowney
Date published or posted online: Nov 18, 2013
Publisher: chicagoshakes2009
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leq8IVEcrKs
More Info: Play is set in the late 1940s and features swing music and dance.

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: Merry Wives Thriller Dance 2010
Title of Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Act and Scene: Act 5, Scene 5
Date of Performance: 2010
Location of Performance: Perpich Arts High School, Golden Valley, MN
Producer: Not available
Director: Steve Ramirez
Performers: Not available
Choreographer: Tony Carlson
Date published or posted online: Oct 31, 2013
Publisher: Steve Ramirez
Source URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gb2TMYUa1A
More Info: Dance is to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Video Clip Details

Title of Clip: Rosella Hightower in Merry Wives of Windsor
Title of Work: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Act and Scene: Overture
Release Date: 1966
Where Filmed: Austria 
Director: Georg Tressler
Director of Photography: Hannes Staudinger
Screenplay: Norman Foster
Performers: Rosella Hightower (with Normal Foster)
Choreographer: Rosella Hightower (with Honoria Plesch)
Music Score: Otto Nicolai
Conductor: Milan Horvath
Orchestra: Zagreb Philharmonic
Production Company: Wien Film
Date published or posted online: Aug 7, 2008
Publisher: jkircher314
Source URL: http://youtu.be/bid8Vb39oms
More Info: a ballet and opera performance by Otto Nicolai, based off of Shakespeare’s original play.

Updated December 17, 2021.