Tap and Jazz Flashcards

1
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Lanchashire clog

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England, workers took lunch outside on cobblestones as sound board for wooden clogs

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2
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Tony Pator

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Creator of Vaudeville, opened at his 14th Street Theatre in 1880

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3
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African presence in America

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flatfooted, barefooted, naked earth,

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4
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1740 slave law in stono, virginia

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forbid slaves from beating drums, blowing horns, singing or instruments

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5
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Potato famine and minstrel show

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swept country bleeding white and afro american dance together in 1840’s

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6
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Jumpin Jim Crow craze

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Thomas Dartmouth Rice

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7
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Juba

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greatest dancer of his time, William Henry Lane

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8
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Buck and Wing

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from the irish jig and Vrigrina Essence made this

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9
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order of vaudeville and shit

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minstrel leads to variety leads to vaudeville

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10
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Tiller Girls

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predecessirs to the Rockets

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11
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Lindy

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this combo of two step and Charleston was the rage in mid 1930’s in Harlem Savoy Ballroom and then versions in white ballrooms

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12
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Balanchine

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he and de mille change Bway by integrating the story with the dance and insisting the the dance director be called choreographer

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13
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Father o f Jazz Dance

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Jack Cole

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14
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Luigi

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developed technique through paralysis

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15
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Bob Fosse

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grew up in vaudeville, moment based on social dances of 60’s with own unique brand of style and angularity.

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