Jazz Dance History and Vocabulary

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Jazz dance was created in the United States.

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True

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What era was the jazz dance "Charleston" apart of?

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1920s

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What era was the jazz dance "Disco" apart of?

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1970s

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Which type of jazz dance was a popular part of the 1990s era? Twist, Lindy, Charleston, Hip Hop

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Hip Hop

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Influenced by Caribbean culture, Katherine Dunham was credited with inventing what?

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The technique of isolations

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Jazz dance is called an umbrella style because

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it covers different styles of dance like hip hop, ballet, and African dance

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What dance step developed as the basic move for big band swing music?

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Lindy

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While jazz dance has many subcategories, the wide variety of styles fall under which two main categories?

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classic and contemporary

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Bob Fosse's style of dance includes: jazz hands and turned in knees

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jazz hands and turned in knees

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The styles of African dance migrated to __________ and then to ________ ultimately inspiring the genre of jazz dance.

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Vaudeville and Broadway