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  2. Jazz dance - Wikipedia

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    Jazz dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the early 20th century. [1][2] Jazz dance may allude to vernacular jazz, Broadway or dramatic jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with jazz music. Vernacular jazz dance incorporates ragtime moves, Charleston, Lindy hop ...

  3. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    Jazz Age. The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 30s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in ...

  4. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    Latin jazz is jazz that employs Latin American rhythms and is generally understood to have a more specific meaning than simply jazz from Latin America. A more precise term might be Afro-Latin jazz , as the jazz subgenre typically employs rhythms that either have a direct analog in Africa or exhibit an African rhythmic influence beyond what is ...

  5. Lindy Hop - Wikipedia

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    Norma Miller and Skip Cunningham 2009. Lindy Hop Dance, 2013. The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s.

  6. Swing (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Origin. 1920's, Harlem, New York City, U.S. [1] Evita and Michael at 2011 Catalina Swing Dance Festival. Swing dance is a group of social dances that developed with the swing style of jazz music in the 1920s–1940s, with the origins of each dance predating the popular "swing era". Hundreds of styles of swing dancing were developed; those that ...

  7. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    An independent meaning of "ethno jazz" emerged around 1990. 1990s -> European free jazz: European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. 1960s -> Flamenco jazz: Flamenco jazz is a style mixing flamenco and jazz, typified by artists such as Paco de Lucia and Camarón de la Isla. 1960s ...

  8. Lyrical dance - Wikipedia

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    Lyrical dance. Lyrical dance is a dance style that embodies various aspects of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance. [1] The style combines ballet technique with the freedom and musicality of jazz and contemporary. [1] According to Jennifer Fisher, lyrical dance is “strongly associated with clearly displayed emotional moods, fast-moving ...

  9. Katherine Dunham - Wikipedia

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    The highly respected Dance magazine did a feature cover story on Dunham in August 2000 entitled "One-Woman Revolution". As Wendy Perron wrote, "Jazz dance, 'fusion,' and the search for our cultural identity all have their antecedents in Dunham's work as a dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist. She was the first American dancer to present ...