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tap dance comes from what two folk dance
traditions
african dance traditionsbritish isles
TERM 2
minstrel show
DEFINITION 2
the first origanal american theatrical form
TERM 3
minstrel show performances
DEFINITION 3
specialty songsdancescomedy routines
TERM 4
cakewalk
DEFINITION 4
finales of the minstreul show with audience participatingfirst
crossover (ballroom to barnyard to ballroom)
TERM 5
Master juba
DEFINITION 5
william henry lane"greatest dancer of the world"king and
queens--1840'sgiouba which influenced the charleston a
hundred years later
soft shoe
aeasy going style of tap dance--movement more important
than soundslots of arms and torso movements
TERM 7
3 important vaudeville who were stars
DEFINITION 7
fred astairbill "bojangles" robinsonSammy Davis JrJosephine
Baker
TERM 8
Ragtime
DEFINITION 8
scott joplininnovative music form that come out of NOLA as
the precursor to jazz
TERM 9
euvie blake
DEFINITION 9
created first all black hit on broadway
TERM 10
florenz ziegfield
DEFINITION 10
euvie white counter part
katherine dunham and pearl primous
two black women who brought attention to african and afro-
caribbean dance to futher the vocabulary of american jazz
TERM 17
jack cole
DEFINITION 17
father of jazz danceproduce of dennishawn school
TERM 18
jerome
robins
DEFINITION 18
west side story---7 oscars
TERM 19
Gene Kelly
DEFINITION 19
soft show solo in singing in the rain
TERM 20
hair
DEFINITION 20
60's musical depicting anti war, civil rights rebellious hippies
and students was made into a movie with choreographer
twyla tharpe
bob fossee
most notable broadway choreographer of the 70'scrunched
body. slumped over, turned in legs, erotic
TERM 22
the chorus line
DEFINITION 22
michael bennettslongest running broadway showgypsies
TERM 23
gregory hines and savion glover
DEFINITION 23
two famous tap dancers of the 90's
TERM 24
michael peters
DEFINITION 24
created dance sequences in music videos for michael jackson
TERM 25
paula abdul
DEFINITION 25
used tape and jazz in her own videostaught janet jackson
dance related careers
company adminteachingpublic relationspilatesyogamassage
therapistshistorianscriticsphotography
TERM 32
umbrella organizations
DEFINITION 32
a solution for small comany choreographers to share costs
forming an alliance
TERM 33
dance notation
DEFINITION 33
way of preserving, analyzing, and copy writing choreography
TERM 34
merce cuningham
DEFINITION 34
biped ( a motion captrue images, computerized animation)
used a program called life forms
TERM 35
telematics
DEFINITION 35
multimedia collaborative efforts using cameras, computers
and projections have been the result of technological
advances
