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Click on your chosen dance style to view a brief history and access short videos.
Choose from 'High' (broadband) or 'Low' (Dial-up) video links depending on your connection. All clips are Windows Media. |
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Clips edited by Bryan Crotaz & Susannah
Traill. Camera: Tim Harcourt.
Thanks to STOIC www.stoictv.com and
to Renaissance Footnotes for the Period Clip. |
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Jazz
Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots
in black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the
big bands of the swing era (1930s and '40s). The dances that gave
rise to social forms of jazz developed from rural slave dances.
It radically altered the style of American and European stage and
social dance in the 20th century. The term is sometimes used more
narrowly to describe popular stage dance (except tap dance) & jazz-derived
or jazz-influenced forms of modern dance. |
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