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The Official Guide to Jazz Dancing
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The Official Guide to Jazz Dancing

by Allen Dow with Mike Michaelson

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
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The Official Guide to Jazz Dancing -
Author: Allen Dow with Mike Michaelson
photography by Patrick K. Snook
book design & prodution by MacDonald Graphics
ISBN-13: 9780890093344
ISBN-10: 0890093342
Publisher: Chartwell Books - copyright 1980
Hardcover
11.3 x 8.8 inches, 96 pages

Jazz dance is a performance dance and style that arose in the United States in the mid 20th century. Jazz dance may allude to vernacular jazz about to Broadway or dramatic jazz. The two types expand on African American vernacular styles of dance that arose with jazz music. Vernacular jazz dance incorporates ragtime moves, Charleston, Lindy hop and mambo. Popular vernacular jazz dance performers include The Whitman Sisters, Florence Mills, Ethel Waters, Al Minns and Leon James, Frankie Manning, Norma Miller, Dawn Hampton, and Katherine Dunham. Dramatic jazz dance performed on the show stage was promoted by Jack Cole, Bob Fosse, Eugene Louis Faccuito, and Gus Giordano.

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