Jazz dance (theatrical jazz)
Jazz dance took shape in the early twentieth-century United States, drawing on African American vernacular dances that grew up alongside jazz music, such as the Charleston and the Lindy hop. It stresses rhythm and flowing, isolated movement. Today the term also covers choreography set to pop music, and the Imperial Society describes the related Modern Theatre style as rhythmic and rooted in American musical theatre.
Theatrical jazz was shaped for stage and screen largely by Jack Cole (1911-1974), who blended African American vernacular dance with Indian bharata natyam, flamenco, ballet and Latin American forms for Broadway and Hollywood, and who influenced Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins. It is practised on Broadway, in television, in companies such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, in examination syllabi and in universities.
Sources
- Jazz dance - Wikipedia
- Jack Cole (choreographer) - Wikipedia
- Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program Ensemble - Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
- Modern Theatre - Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD)
- 爵士舞 - Chinese Wikipedia
- Джазовый танец - Russian Wikipedia
Organisations connected with this dance
- Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) - Modern Theatre faculty
- Giordano Dance Chicago
- International Dance Teachers Association (IDTA)
- Jacob's Pillow Dance
Listed as references; being listed is not an endorsement by or of the organisation.