Dance came from African American vernacular dance of the late
1800s to the mid-1900s. They first heard of this name when the
first world war started. They mixed the European music with afro
modifications. Jazz came from various places such as New Orleans,
St. Louis, Memphis and Kansas City these are just a few of the
places were they orignated. The New Orleans is the main place where
Jazz dance came from. The most important part of Jazz dance is when
people walked through bars and brothels. In
1910 a popular Jazz dancer named Joe Frisco he danced in
loose-limbed style close to the ground while he was juggling his
derby and cigar. Jazz dance is normally referred to as tap dance
because tap dancing was set to Jazz music and it was the major
performance dance of the ora the later jazz age were developed in
different popular forms of jazz dance suchh as the Cakewalk, Black
Bottom, Charleston, Jitterbug, Boogie Woogie, Swing dancing and the
related Lindy Hop. The first jazz bands included a rhythm section
of string bass instruments such as Drums,Guitar or Banjo,a
trombone,a clarinet, and sometime even violin. Also Jazz was taken
over by large orchestras and it contained 15 or more musicians.
Sometimes they would mix Jazz dancing with other styles of dance.
Jazz dancing can be seen in somemusic video's a spactacular number
of Las Vegas showgirls are jazz dancers. The elements of Jazz dance
are jazz music, and dance style. Katherine Dunham is a grandmaster
at Jazz dancing.
The costumes for Jazz dance are very unique they are very
sparkly. Dance can mean to move the body with rhythmic steps and
motion. Dance can also mean a certain set of steps and motions,
usually made in time to music. And a dance can also mean a party at
which the people dance. Dancing is the act of moving the body in
rhythm, usually in time to music. It seems natural for people to
express themselves through rhythmic movement. Dance as art may tell
a story, set a mood, or express an emotion. Some people just dance
for the fun of dancing while others do it to relax or just because
they can there doesn't have to be a reason why people dance it is
just about expressing how you feel and injoying it. some genres of
dance are Jazz Street dance Swing,Tango,Tap,Waltz ect. The term
jazz dance has been used to describe a forever changing form of
popular and creative dance movement ever since the 1920s.
Choreography the art of composing dances also, the movements and
patterns of a dance composition. Choreography can Jean Sabatine, in
her book Techniques and Styles of Jazz Dancing, states that " the
story of jazz dance begins with the importing of African culture to
America through the American slave trade.refer to the anonymously
created patterns of folk dance and non- Western classical dance.
Slave traders would bring them to the deck and let them dance. The
Basic Jazz Dance Steps are Jazz Square - This iconic move consists
of stepping forward, then crossing the other foot over, stepping
back with the first, and then bringing the feet side by side. It
can be done to the left or right side, and usually is done with
some extreme attitude in the upper body. Then there is Jazz walk -
It is impossible to really describe the "jazz walk," as it is
something like art: you know it when you see it. It is a great
example of how personal attitude can be injected into the art of
jazz.