Jazz Dance

Jazz Dance
Author: Marshall Stearns
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1994-03-22
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780306805530


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"The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for studios coast to coast teaching 'Modern Jazz Dance' (a blend of Euro-American styles that owes little to jazz and less to jazz rhythms). However, we are dealing here with what may eventually be referred to as jazz dance, and we could not think of a more suitable title. "The characteristic that distinguishes American vernacular dance--as does jazz music--is swing, which can be heard, felt, and seen, but defined only with great difficulty. . . ." --from the Introduction


Jazz Dance
Language: en
Pages: 516
Authors: Marshall Stearns
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-03-22 - Publisher: Da Capo Press

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"The phrase jazz dance has a special meaning for professionals who dance to jazz music (they use it to describe non-tap body movement); and another meaning for
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Pages: 351
Authors: Constance Valis Hill
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-04-23 - Publisher: Cooper Square Press

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Tap dancing legends Fayard (b. 1914) and Harold (1918-2000) Nicholas amazed crowds with their performances in musicals and films from the 30s to the 80s. They p
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Language: en
Pages: 52
Authors: Jenai Cutcher
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-12-15 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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Explores the history of jazz and tap dancing, what is involved in becoming a dancer, and what to look for when watching a jazz or tap dancing performance.
Tap Dancing America
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Constance Valis Hill
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-12 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form. Writing with all
The Matt Mattox Book of Jazz Dance
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Elisabeth Frich
Categories: Jazz dance
Type: BOOK - Published: 1983 - Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)

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