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Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James, original Lindy Hop dancers in iconic Life magazine photograph, 1943 Norma Miller and Skip Cunningham 2009 Lindy Hop Dance, 2013. The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then.
African-American dance is a form of dance that was created by Africans in the Diaspora, specifically the United States.It has developed within various spaces throughout African-American communities in the United States, rather than studios, schools, or companies.
In 1943, Life magazine featured Lindy Hop on its cover and called it "America's National Folk Dance". Lindy Hop/Jitterbug was a popular dance used by the media as a military recruitment tool. Places like the Hollywood Canteen were featured in films to capitalize on these dance popularity, attracting individuals and promoting enlistment. The ...
The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance.
Katherine Dunham was an anthropologist, choreographer, and pioneer in black theatrical dance who introduced isolations Jazz Dance. She created the Dunham technique, characterized by simple lines, torsos that move in different ways, and a greater variety of tempos and rhythms than most other Western dance styles of that time.
She often based her dances on the work of black writers and on racial issues, such as Langston Hughes's 1944 The Negro Speaks of Rivers, and Lewis Allan's 1945 Strange Fruit (1945). Her dance company developed into the Pearl Primus Dance Language Institute. [6] Alvin Ailey (1931-1989) studied under Lester Horton, Bella Lewitzky, and later ...
Donald McKayle (July 6, 1930 – April 6, 2018 [2]) was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and '60s that focus on expressing the human condition and, more specifically, the black experience in America. He was "among the first black men ...
Ragtime and jazz dance were both iconic dances of the 20th century. Both of them contained syncopated rhythms and dance steps that were very different from the polite and proper dance steps from centuries before. The new technology that came with the century made way for new ways of thinking, which in turn brought new music and exciting new dances.