Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Jazz dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the early 20th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Jazz Dance may allude to vernacular Jazz , Broadway or dramatic Jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with Jazz Music.
Gus Giordano (July 10, 1923 – March 9, 2008 [1] [2]) was an American jazz dancer, teacher, and choreographer.He performed on Broadway, in theater and television.He founded the Gus Giordano Dance School in 1953 and Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago in 1963.
Jack Cole (born John Ewing Richter; April 27, 1911 – February 17, 1974) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as "the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance" [1] for his role in codifying African-American jazz dance styles, as influenced by the dance traditions of other cultures, for Broadway and Hollywood.
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...
He started his career on pirate radio stations Radio Invicta and K-Jazz, later joining legal stations in London, first the newly founded Jazz FM, and then onto the dance music station Kiss FM. [5] In 1998, he was hired by BBC Radio 1 , and in 2012 he began hosting a three-hour Saturday afternoon programme on BBC Radio 6 Music . [ 6 ]
In 1952, he founded the Institute of Jazz Studies, which he directed. Later in the 1950s, he was a consultant to the United States State Department, and accompanied Dizzy Gillespie on a tour of the Middle East in 1956 sponsored by the office. Stearns taught at the New School for Social Research (1954–61) and the School of Jazz in Lenox ...
More than 50 years after Jazzercise launched, the dance fitness franchise is still thriving — and so is its 80-year-old founder, Judi Sheppard Missett. At 80, Jazzercise's founder is thriving.
The Modern Jazz Quartet was formed out of the foursome's need for more freedom and complexity than Gillespie's big band, dance-intended sound allowed. [18] While Lewis wanted the MJQ to have more improvisational freedom, he also wanted to incorporate some classical elements and arrangements into his compositions. [14]