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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of American jazz dance from the 1920s through the 1950s. It discusses key early jazz dancers like Edna Guy and Asadata Dafora. It then focuses on important choreographers and their works that advanced jazz dance like Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free and West Side Story. The document also profiles influential dancers and choreographers like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Jack Cole, and Bob Fosse. It analyzes two of Kelly's famous films, An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain, in terms of their choreography, musical numbers, and cultural impact.

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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of American jazz dance from the 1920s through the 1950s. It discusses key early jazz dancers like Edna Guy and Asadata Dafora. It then focuses on important choreographers and their works that advanced jazz dance like Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free and West Side Story. The document also profiles influential dancers and choreographers like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Jack Cole, and Bob Fosse. It analyzes two of Kelly's famous films, An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain, in terms of their choreography, musical numbers, and cultural impact.

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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of American jazz dance from the 1920s through the 1950s. It discusses key early jazz dancers like Edna Guy and Asadata Dafora. It then focuses on important choreographers and their works that advanced jazz dance like Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free and West Side Story. The document also profiles influential dancers and choreographers like Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Jack Cole, and Bob Fosse. It analyzes two of Kelly's famous films, An American in Paris and Singin' in the Rain, in terms of their choreography, musical numbers, and cultural impact.

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    Dance

    Section B

    Home
    Revision
    American Jazz Dance
    Context (Pre 1920s)
    American Jazz
    Dance (1920s)
    American Jazz
    Dance (1930s)
    American Jazz
    Dance (1940s)
    Edna Guy

    Asadata Dafora
    Katherine Durham
    Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson

    Fred Astaire
    Jack Cole
    Jerome Robbins
    Stylistic Features
    Influences
    Fancy Free (1944)
    West Side Story (1957)
    Summery

    Context
    Choreography (in the movie)
    Bob Fosse
    Background
    Influences
    Movement Style

    Stylistic Features
    Gene Kelly (1912 - 1996)

    Background

    Influences
    Career
    Stylistic Features and Movement Style
    An American in Paris (1951)
    An American in Paris (1951)
    Costumes

    The Seven Sequences


    Ballet Sequence Analysis
    Sequence One - in Dufy Style
    Sequence Two - in Renoir Style
    Sequence Three - in Utrillo Style
    Sequence Four - in Rousseau Style
    Sequence Five - Dufy and Van Gogh Style
    Sequence Six - Van Gogh
    Sequence Seven - Toulouse Lautrec
    Singing in the Rain (1952)
    Gene Kelly and Stanley Donne
    Production

    Themes

    Characters

    Context
    Singing in the Rain:
    Section Analysis
    Fit as a Fiddle
    All I Do is Dream of You
    Make Em Laugh
    Beautiful Girls
    You Were Meant for Me
    Moses Supposes
    Good Morning
    Singing in the Rain
    Broadway Melody (Gotta Dance)

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