Jazz & Tap Review

Tap is a blend of Africanist rhythms and steps from the African Diaspora. Which other groups of people/dance styles blended into the origins of tap dance?

• Asian & Martial Arts

• Brazil & Capoeira

• Irish & British clogging

• Haiti & Orisha Dances

____ _____ is a dance that moves counter-clockwise (dancing and singing

were directed to the ancestors and Gods when

counter-clockwise

(a)  

True or False: The Cake Walk is a dance that made fun of the slave masters

• TRUE

• FALSE

What style of tap did Bill Bojangles Robinson do?

• Rhythm Tap

• Flash Act

• Class Act

• Freestyle

The ______ ___________ was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship.

(a)  

Which answers below are kinetic elements of Jazz?

• Erect torso

• Improvisation

• Embellishments

• Groundedness

True or False: Bill Bojangles Robinson was not simultaneously praised & critiqued by the Black community for the films he starred in with Shirley Temple

• TRUE

• FALSE

Josephine Baker stood out for what part of her performance?

• Speaking in a different language

• Being tall

• Intricate choreography

• Comic relief