1920's
__________ is a form of art and has been a way people could express themselves for many decades.
What is dance?
______ were the years of jazz and swing dancing.
What is the 1930's?
________ were the years of jazz and swing dancing.
What is the 1940's?
The _________ was to most people the year of growth and rebellion.
What is the 1950's?
The majority of the dances in the _____ didn't include a dance partner.
What is the 1960's?
Dances from the ________ were often talked about as wild and carefree
What is the 1920's?
Exuberant ballroom dance popular in the 1930's.
What is the jitterbug?
_________ is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America.
What is the Mambo?
The _______ was a dance that emerged in the 1950s due to such rock and roll hits as "Dance To The Bop" by Gene Vincent.
What is the Bop?
The __________ is a dance move which was a popular dance craze of 1962. The dance move and mashed potato song were first made famous by James Brown.
What is the Mashed Potato?
A kind of ragtime dance in which the whole body shakes or sways.
What is the shimmy?
The ________ is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities in Harlem, New York City, in 1928.
What is the Lindy Hop?
The _______ is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor.
What is the Foxtrot?
The _________, a dance done by swiveling the hips, became a worldwide dance craze in the early 1960s.
What is the Twist?
The Boston _________ is a 1960s novelty dance that involves swinging the hips and hands in opposition.
What is the Monkey?
The steps associated with this dance are rooted in the African-American dance called the Juba, which originated with Kongo slaves that were brought to Charleston, SC and was danced on plantations in the Low-country.
What is the Charleston?
_______ is a lively, and uninhibited variation of the jitterbug, and is one of the five International Latin dances, although it has an African-American origin.
What is the Jive?
The _______ is one of the basic moves of Lindy Hop and all swing dances.
What is the Sugar Push?
_______ is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
What is the Calypso?
A dance of the 1960s that developed in the black community but spread rapidly as a popular social dance form.
What is The Funky Chicken?
________ dance is one the most famous partner dances that emphasizes the vibrant and playful style of movement, rich expressions, improvisation and requires close connection and passion between dancers.
What is Tango?
_________ is an energetic, fast dance, done usually with triple steps and rock steps to Big Band or contemporary music that ‘swings’.
What is the East Coast Swing?
This country banned swing dancing in the 1940's.
What is Germany?
The _________ was both a slow rock 'n' roll dance and a song that was popular in the late 1950s.
What is the Stroll?
Chubby Checker is best known for "The Twist," but he introduced some other dances as well, including The Pony Time and The _____.
What is the Fly?