Musical

Theater
Dance Styles

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Dance Genres

Modern Tap

Ballet

Ballroom Jazz
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Ballet - Italian ballare, meaning "to dance".

 History & Development

 origins in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th
and 16th centuries
 late 17th century Louis XIV created first professional
theatrical ballet company, the Paris Opera Ballet.
 The Royal Danish Ballet and the Imperial Ballet of the
Russian Empire founded in the 1740s, flourished after
1850.
 20th century styles of ballet continued to develop
and strongly influence broader concert dance
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Ballet
 Influential Figures
 Domenico da Piacenza
 Catherine de' Medici
 Sergei Diaghilev
 George Balanchine
 Twyla Tharp
 Agnes de Mille
 Robert Joffrey
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Ballet
 Musical References
 Rodgers' & Hart’s On Your Toes was the first use of
ballet to sustain the plot (Balanchine)
 Oklahoma Dream Ballet (DeMille)
 West Side Story (Robbins)
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Modern dance forms that are distinct from

both ballet and the show dancing of the musical

 History/Development
 Developed in the 20th cent., primarily in the United
States and Germany
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Modern
 Influential Figures
 Isadora Duncan
 Loie Fuller
 Ruth St. Denis
 Rudolf von Laban
 Mary Wigman
 Martha Graham
 Doris Humphrey
 Alvin Ailey
 Twyla Tharp
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Modern
 Musical References
 Kiss Me, Kate
 My Fair Lady
 CATS
 Movin’ Out
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Tap
 History/Development
 Born in the dance halls of Manhattan's once-
infamous "Five Points" district
 William Henry Lane -- better known as "Master Juba“
 Metal taps were not used on dance shoes until the
early 20th Century, so the term "tap" first appeared at
that time
 Hardshoe and the Irish clog dance developed into
tap dance
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Tap
 Important Figures
 William Henry Lane -- better known as "Master Juba“
 Thomas "Daddy" Rice
 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
 Ned Wayburn
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Tap
 Musical References
 Crazy For You
 Singing in the Rain
 Thoroughly Modern Millie
 Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk.
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Jazz
 History/Development
 Before the 1950s, jazz dance referred to dance styles that
originated from African American vernacular dance.
 In the 1950s, a new genre of jazz dance — modern jazz
dance — emerged, with roots in Caribbean traditional
dance.
 Every individual style of jazz dance has roots traceable to
one of these two distinct origins. Jazz was a big hit in the
early 50's and it is stil a well loved style of dance all over the
world
 Moves Used In Jazz Dance: Jazz Hands Kicks, Leaps,
Sideway Shuffling, Rolled Shoulders, Turned Knees
 Syncopated rhythm
 Isolations
 Improvisation
 A low center of gravity
 The inverted limbs and hunched-over posture of Bob Fosse
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Jazz
 Influential Figures
 Bob Fosse
 Katherine Dunham
 Jack Cole
 Eugene Louis Facciuto (aka "Luigi)
 Gus Giordano
 Jerome Robbins
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Jazz
 Musical References
 Chicago
 Newsies
 Fosse
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