Dance History Foundations: Jazz, Hip Hop, and European Ballet Pioneers

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Jazz, Tap, and Hip Hop Dance History

Movement Characteristics of Jazz Dance (Myron Howard)

Describe 5 out of 7 movement characteristics of jazz as described by Myron Howard:

  1. Gliding, dragging, or shuffling footwork often in low, crouched attitudes.
    • Associated with slaves’ barefoot dancing.
    • Very similar to “getting down tapping.”
  2. A tilting and fluid spine.

    This changed the European upright stance and allowed for fluctuation of individual body parts (shoulders, ribs, torso, and pelvis) and a lower,

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