Tap and Jazz Flashcards
Lanchashire clog
England, workers took lunch outside on cobblestones as sound board for wooden clogs
Tony Pator
Creator of Vaudeville, opened at his 14th Street Theatre in 1880
African presence in America
flatfooted, barefooted, naked earth,
1740 slave law in stono, virginia
forbid slaves from beating drums, blowing horns, singing or instruments
Potato famine and minstrel show
swept country bleeding white and afro american dance together in 1840’s
Jumpin Jim Crow craze
Thomas Dartmouth Rice
Juba
greatest dancer of his time, William Henry Lane
Buck and Wing
from the irish jig and Vrigrina Essence made this
order of vaudeville and shit
minstrel leads to variety leads to vaudeville
Tiller Girls
predecessirs to the Rockets
Lindy
this combo of two step and Charleston was the rage in mid 1930’s in Harlem Savoy Ballroom and then versions in white ballrooms
Balanchine
he and de mille change Bway by integrating the story with the dance and insisting the the dance director be called choreographer
Father o f Jazz Dance
Jack Cole
Luigi
developed technique through paralysis
Bob Fosse
grew up in vaudeville, moment based on social dances of 60’s with own unique brand of style and angularity.