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American Jazz Simple Flashcards

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Origins of jazz

A 
African dance
Minstrel shows
Cake walk
1920 social dance
Vaudeville (variety show/ follies)
Burlesque (sexy)
European influences
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Characteristics of jazz

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Low COG
percussion
Isolations
Syncopation
Parallel pirouettes
High kicks
Body leading from torso and pelvis 
Traveling
Quick, little steps
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1920’s social dance examples

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Shimmy
Charleston
Black bottom
Snake hips
Lindy hop
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Who is jack coke known as and why?

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The farther of jazz because he influenced lots of people

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Characteristics of Jack Cole

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Low to the floor, upright torso
Plié
Fusion of modern and bharanatyam 
Isolations
Bursting leaps from floor
Knee slides
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What is kismets date?

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1955

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What did Jack Cole study?

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Modern, ballet and ethnic dance

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Where do we see African dance in kismet?

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2 male dancers drag run smoothly on a low level.
They full plié into an explosive jump.
Sudden claps with arms above their heads.
Controlled head isolation in unison.
Throughout this they have finger and thumb together showing inseam technique.

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What year is sing sing sing!?

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1947

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Where do we see slides and explosive jumps in sing sing sing!?

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4 men slide and jump 4 times in a circle

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Who was Bob Fosse influenced by?

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Jack Cole, Fred Astaire and Jerome Robins

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12
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What is significant about Bob Fosses child hood?

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Dad worked in night clubs meaning he spent a lot of time there leading to him performing in vaudeville and broadway

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What themes does Fosse tend to explore?

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Darker and grittier than other musicals at the time

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How did Bob Fosse revolutionize the use of camera?

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Fast cuts, closeups on body parts

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What makes fosses works so recognizable?

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Sexualizes dancers, empowers women, use of props

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Why does Fosse use props?

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To cover his imperfections (black, hats and canes, pigeon toes)

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What year was sweet charity?

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1966

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18
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What year was pyjama game?

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1953

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What year was cabaret?

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1972

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What year was Chicago?

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1975

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21
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What is the section steam heat from?

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Pajama game

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Motif from steam heat

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3 dancers drop into pigeon toes with head down.
Pop up pushing hat up.
(Black suites)

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23
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Who was Agnes De Mille known as and why?

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The mother of musicals because she revolutionized using dance to further the plot

24
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What is significant about Anges De Milles dad?

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He worked on Hollywood and told her she wasn’t pretty enough to act or do ballet

25
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What happened after she created the dream batter in rodeo (1942)?

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She was hired to choreograph for Oklahoma! (1943)

26
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What year was Oklahoma! created?

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1943

27
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An example of showing emotion in Oklahoma!

A

Laurey leaps with pointed toes to show she is happy

28
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What happens in Oklahoma’s dream ballet

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Laurey is overjoyed to see Curley and expresses her love towards him via pas de doux.
Leads to a wedding but soon turns dark as just enters and turns the dream into a night mare

29
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What year is carousel?

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1945

30
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What is carousel about?

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Lovers who get fired from their jobs and elope.
They find out she if pregnant and he commits a robbery with the police turning up.
He tries to escape and falls on his own knife dying in her arms.
15 years later her is aloud down from heaven to see him daughter and wife

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How is her attraction to him shows in carousel?

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She sits in a lyrical 4th and shimmies her shoulders, sweeping her left her hand over her face to sweep her hair away.
Flutters her eyelashes while looks over her shoulder to him

32
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Who was Jerome Robbins influenced by?

A

Agnes de Mille

33
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What year was west side story?

A

1961

34
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What was west side story’s stimulus?

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Romeo and Juliet, gangs in NY and racial tension in america

35
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How is the theme of conflict shown in the prologue of west side story?

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Use of focus.
On a basket ball court- teams.
Physical theatre fight at end in pairs later stopped by police.

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What is the story line of wear side story?

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2 gangs.
Make from jets and female from sharks fall in love.
Fight (racism throughout).
Death

37
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Jazz motif in the prologue of west side story

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3 sharks step ball change twice then step turn step in unison.
Travels across a large space with a low COG.
Quickly with high energy and clear space with clear focus and intention in the direction they’re going.
(Also see: kicks, leaps, pirouettes, extended arms)

38
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Where do you see musical theatre in west side story?

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The section America starts with acting between Anita and Bernardo leading into a sing dialogue about Anitas dislike for Peuto rico and Bernados for America.
This is often used in broadway as a smooth transition between the singing, dancing and acting.
Anita also uses actions to match her words (eg. “always the population growing” she gestures a pregnant stomach)

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Where do you see Latin American dance in west side story?

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the section dance at the gym is performed by the sharks to show proudness of their heritage.
Stand in a huddle USR and suddenly turn round. Girls are in front line holding bunches up skirt, right hand strong above head with wrist flexed and palm facing upwards (flamingo)

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Where do you see social dance in west side story?

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Dance at the gym includes 1950s social dance (lindyhop and jitterbug).
Jets stand in 2 horizontal gendered lines.
They step towards each other jittering their head forwards and back sharply

41
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What year is fancy free?

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1944

42
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What is fancy free about?

A

3 wartime sailers on leave in NY trying to pick up girls and dancing competitively to win them

43
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Sailor 1 motif (ballet and jazz)

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Balletic jeté with left leg cowards towards DSL (arms extended with left above head and right out to side).
Jazzy turn in parallel lifting one foot into a high retiré.

44
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How does fancy free start?

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Enter USR, cartwheel and assemble facing the back.

They each add their own movement such as a jump with arms above head or a grand jeté en tournant

45
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When where minstrel shows popular?

A

1850’s

46
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When did vaudeville become popular?

A

1870’s

47
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When was the Charleston formed

A

1920’s

48
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When did silent movies become talkies?

A

1920’s

49
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What did the 1930’s depression cause broadway practitioners to do?

A

Go to Hollywood

50
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1939-1945 entertainment was used for escapism of what?

A

The war

51
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When were the broadway golden years and who pioneered new narrative musicals?

A

1943-1959

Rodgers and Hammerstein

52
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When did Agnes de Mille and Gene Kelly’s Careers peak?

A

1940’s

53
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When did Jack Cole and Jerome Robins’ careers start?

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1940’s

54
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What did teenage gang culture in the 1950’s lead to?

A

New ideas like West side story

55
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When did Fosse appear with his style?

A

1960’s

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