Dance Exam 4 questions well
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JAZZ/TAP/MUSICAL THEATER - PART 1 - correct answer ✔✔ ...
Jazz Dance - Definition - correct answer ✔✔ Jazz
- American art form/roots traced back to Africa
- Strong use syncopated rhythms, varying dynamics
- Repeatedly use plie
- Often has improvisatory 'feel'
- Individual style is developed and demonstrated
- Visceral, sensual and presentational
- Can be found in theatrical stage, concert stage, movie musicals, popular music videos
Dance in America: Emergence of Black Dance - correct answer ✔✔ - Origins traced back to
Africa
-- African slaves brought folklore & religious traditions
- Although many became converts to Christianity (by force or choice), many continued old
practices
-- for reasons of custom & social entertainment & deep-seated cultural retention of past
religious beliefs & practices
-- Unique permission in New Orleans for slaves to dance publicly in early 19th c. New Orleans
-- In Jamaica (British-owner as well)
- Drums forbidden
,-- used jawbones (of animals, when hit with a stick would rattle the teeth and make a
percussive sound), blacksmith's tools, hand clapping & foot taps became increasingly intricate;
predecessor to tap dance shoe
Dance in America: Emergence of Black Dance - correct answer ✔✔ - Step dances - called Juba
-- an elaborate varied jig
- Master Juba was stage name of 1st famous black performer (William Henry Lane) - debuted in
1825 (15 years old)
-- toured U.S. & London (1848)
-- deemed "greatest of all dancers"
--many white minstrel-show performers imitated him; kept a measure of authenticity
- Although American blacks continued to be source of inspiration of music hall performances,
they found little employment...
- ...or were left to play stereotypes/caricatures (ignorant or child like characters wearing
exaggerated expressions & "fright wigs"
- By end of 19th c., no longer permitted to perform on stage with white performers
- White groups would appear in "blackface"
Dance in America: Emergence of Black Dance: Minstrel shows/Minstrelsy - correct answer ✔✔
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Eras in Jazz Dance - correct answer ✔✔ - MINSTREL SHOWS (1830s) showcased black songs and
dances, but blacks were not allowed to perform
-- except for Master Juba
--- 18060s black began to appear in their own Minstrel Shows; performed for other blacks &
Irish immigrants only
--- Became as popular as white minstrels; Cakewalk (directly from plantation contexts); couples
dancing to outdo each other in the mock imitation of white man's manners & behaviors; cake
was the reward for winning the contest
, - VAUNDEVILLE ERA (African American contributions; marked the emergence of jazz music
(syncopated, which for many characterizes jazz dance)
- THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, NYC (1921-1933); Exclusive clubs (The Cotton Club, The Savoy
Ballroom); Blacks were employed; Roaring 20's dance crazes: The Black Bottom and the
Charleston (flappers)
- NEXT FEW DECADES, jazz was a part of theatre, nightclubs, movie musicals, dance concerts
and dance studios. 50s and 60s - television and variety shows.
- JAZZ TODAY encompasses several styles including concert jazz dance performed in theaters
versus jazz in clubs or in musical theatre productions.
Eras in Jazz SEE VIDEOS: #4/1 (Minstrel Cakewalk); #4/2 (Harlem Renaissance Charleston); #4/3
(The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance in Film) - correct answer ✔✔ ...
Cakewalk - slaves imitated dance movements of high society whites, the owners made
competitions, reward was cake
Tap Dance - Definition - correct answer ✔✔ Tap Dance
- Believed to have been created by the blending of "...Irish jig and English clog with Negro
shuffle."
- Shoes with metal taps on bottom
- Rhythmic sounds produced by moving feet
- Strong use syncopated rhythms
- Vocabulary w/ prescribed steps, but mostly, improvisational
- Different styles of tap and tap dancers: hoofers, class acts, flash acts, soft shoes, etc.
- Seen on theatrical stage, concert stage, movies, movie musicals, popular dance videos
TAP - correct answer ✔✔ Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949)
- Considered one of the greatest tap dancers of Vaudeville era
- Best remembered in movies with Shirley Temple:
-- The Little Colonel - 1935
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JAZZ/TAP/MUSICAL THEATER - PART 1 - correct answer ✔✔ ...
Jazz Dance - Definition - correct answer ✔✔ Jazz
- American art form/roots traced back to Africa
- Strong use syncopated rhythms, varying dynamics
- Repeatedly use plie
- Often has improvisatory 'feel'
- Individual style is developed and demonstrated
- Visceral, sensual and presentational
- Can be found in theatrical stage, concert stage, movie musicals, popular music videos
Dance in America: Emergence of Black Dance - correct answer ✔✔ - Origins traced back to
Africa
-- African slaves brought folklore & religious traditions
- Although many became converts to Christianity (by force or choice), many continued old
practices
-- for reasons of custom & social entertainment & deep-seated cultural retention of past
religious beliefs & practices
-- Unique permission in New Orleans for slaves to dance publicly in early 19th c. New Orleans
-- In Jamaica (British-owner as well)
- Drums forbidden
,-- used jawbones (of animals, when hit with a stick would rattle the teeth and make a
percussive sound), blacksmith's tools, hand clapping & foot taps became increasingly intricate;
predecessor to tap dance shoe
Dance in America: Emergence of Black Dance - correct answer ✔✔ - Step dances - called Juba
-- an elaborate varied jig
- Master Juba was stage name of 1st famous black performer (William Henry Lane) - debuted in
1825 (15 years old)
-- toured U.S. & London (1848)
-- deemed "greatest of all dancers"
--many white minstrel-show performers imitated him; kept a measure of authenticity
- Although American blacks continued to be source of inspiration of music hall performances,
they found little employment...
- ...or were left to play stereotypes/caricatures (ignorant or child like characters wearing
exaggerated expressions & "fright wigs"
- By end of 19th c., no longer permitted to perform on stage with white performers
- White groups would appear in "blackface"
Dance in America: Emergence of Black Dance: Minstrel shows/Minstrelsy - correct answer ✔✔
*** Photos slide ***
Eras in Jazz Dance - correct answer ✔✔ - MINSTREL SHOWS (1830s) showcased black songs and
dances, but blacks were not allowed to perform
-- except for Master Juba
--- 18060s black began to appear in their own Minstrel Shows; performed for other blacks &
Irish immigrants only
--- Became as popular as white minstrels; Cakewalk (directly from plantation contexts); couples
dancing to outdo each other in the mock imitation of white man's manners & behaviors; cake
was the reward for winning the contest
, - VAUNDEVILLE ERA (African American contributions; marked the emergence of jazz music
(syncopated, which for many characterizes jazz dance)
- THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE, NYC (1921-1933); Exclusive clubs (The Cotton Club, The Savoy
Ballroom); Blacks were employed; Roaring 20's dance crazes: The Black Bottom and the
Charleston (flappers)
- NEXT FEW DECADES, jazz was a part of theatre, nightclubs, movie musicals, dance concerts
and dance studios. 50s and 60s - television and variety shows.
- JAZZ TODAY encompasses several styles including concert jazz dance performed in theaters
versus jazz in clubs or in musical theatre productions.
Eras in Jazz SEE VIDEOS: #4/1 (Minstrel Cakewalk); #4/2 (Harlem Renaissance Charleston); #4/3
(The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance in Film) - correct answer ✔✔ ...
Cakewalk - slaves imitated dance movements of high society whites, the owners made
competitions, reward was cake
Tap Dance - Definition - correct answer ✔✔ Tap Dance
- Believed to have been created by the blending of "...Irish jig and English clog with Negro
shuffle."
- Shoes with metal taps on bottom
- Rhythmic sounds produced by moving feet
- Strong use syncopated rhythms
- Vocabulary w/ prescribed steps, but mostly, improvisational
- Different styles of tap and tap dancers: hoofers, class acts, flash acts, soft shoes, etc.
- Seen on theatrical stage, concert stage, movies, movie musicals, popular dance videos
TAP - correct answer ✔✔ Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949)
- Considered one of the greatest tap dancers of Vaudeville era
- Best remembered in movies with Shirley Temple:
-- The Little Colonel - 1935
