Jazz Dance History

What is Jazz Dance?

• A mirror of the social history of the American people

• Cultural changes

• Reflects historical events

• Ethnic influences and especially the music and social dances of its era

• All the above

Where did jazz dance come from?

• The rhythms and movements brought to America by African slaves

• Broadway shows

• Dance competitions

• Minstrel shows

What does jazz dance involve? Select the ones that apply.

• African influences

• European Influences

• Cultivated in American urban environment

• Court dances

Restrictive laws enacted by Southern slave owners prohibited what?

• African drums and ritual African dances

• Tap dancing

• Swing dancing

• Dance competitions

When the Africans were under restrictive laws, they used foot stomping and tapping, hand clapping, and rhythmic voice sounds to cling to their cultural identity.

• True

• False

Minstrel and Vaudeville shows were?

• mimicry of blacks

• popularized the African style of dance and music

• depended greatly on solo performance and improvisation

• All the above

What two dances were introduced by the "Southern Art form" of Minstrel and Vaudeville Shows?

• boogie woogie and twist

• twist and buck and wing

• buck and wing and cakewalk

• cakewalk and charleston

The embittered black performers migrated to Europe because they were received more readily than in their American homeland.

• False

• True

What tap pioneer influenced tap in the 1920s?

• Jack Cole

• Bob Fosse

• Fred Astaire

• Bill "Bojangles" Robinson

Jazz dance in the 1920s was also known as what age?

• Fitness Age

• Minstrel Age

• Jazz Age

• Enlightenment Age