Style
Early Days
Tap
Musical Theatre
Styles of Jazz
100
All jazz dance shares this relationship to the music
What is a personal connection?
100
This style of dance is one of the roots of tap dance and involved an upright body and rhythmic dance on the toes
What is Irish Dance?
100
Tap dance first became popular in this decade.
What is the 1930s?
100
This was the decade in which musical theatre dance became popular.
What is the 1940s?
100
This style of jazz involves flashy, athletic moves and sassy style.
What is competition jazz?
200
All jazz styles share this aesthetic
What is the aesthetic of the cool?
200
This style of dancing was brought to America by the enslaved peoples and is a root of jazz and tap dance.
What is African Dance?
200
This tap dancer performed on stairs with Shirley Temple.
Who was Bojangles?
200
Choreographers from this dance form were the first musical theatre choreographers.
What is ballet?
200
This style of jazz emphasizes flow, alignment and a sense of "class'
What is technical jazz?
300
This is a characteristic of all jazz dances involving multiple rhythms at once
What is polyrhythm?
300
He was the earliest tap dancer.
Who was "Master Juba"?
300
This style of tap involved acrobatic moves, graceful arms and wiggly legs.
What is flash?
300
This is an early example of a Musical theatre performance.
What is Carousel?
300
This musical was choreographed by technical jazz luminary Bob Fosse
What is "Chicago"
400
This is a characteristic of jazz dance involving multiple centers of movement in the body.
What is polycentrism?
400
Enslaved people on plantations made rhythms with their feet for this reason.
What is that their drums were taken away?
400
This style of tap uses a loose, free upper body and focuses on rhythm.
What is rhythm tap or hoofing?
400
This is another word for a musical theatre production.
What is a broadway show?
400
This technical jazz teacher was paralyzed by a car accident and used dancing to strengthen his body until he could walk again.
Who is Luigi?
500
This is a characteristic found in jazz dance - the sound of a swinging rhythm.
What is syncopation?
500
This was a simple dance in which blacks imitated whites' 'snooty' ways, then whites imitated that.
What is the cakewalk?
500
This style of tap is about simple steps performed in a bouncy manner and spectacular group formations.
What is musical theatre tap?
500
This Musical Theatre show involves the sharks and the jets.
What is West Side Story?
500
Technical jazz is from this decade.
What is the 1970s?
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