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Chapter 4

Jazz dance is a generic expression that covers both social dances and theatrical dances. We can distinguish its form before the 1950s (jazz roots) from its form after the 1950-1970s (modern jazz). The term jazz appears in 1917 to designate syncopated music, derived from black American culture, then is freely used to describe the dances resulting from this rhythm. From there, the term evolves towards entertainment and designates forms of dance specific to cabarets, theaters, cinema, television, video clips. Jazz dance, however, has its origins in African American vernacular dances of the late 1800s. Similar to the tap dance of the 1920s on Broadway, jazz dance reaches the whole world and includes the cake-walk, the shimmy, the charleston, the black bottom and all the forms from the black magazines of Harlem. Today we call this form of solo dance from the 1920s to 1940s, roots jazz, to distinguish it from the jazz dance form developed after 1940. From the 1940s, the great modern choreographers integrated jazz dance into musicals and gave it a narrative function. Artists like Jack Cole, Bob Fosse and Jerome Robbins give it its letters of nobility. Spontaneous improvisation gives way to the occupation of space and musical expressiveness. The origin of the expression modern jazz is plural: the 1950s saw the appearance of the term “modern jazz”, an expression born in the New York studios of Matt Mattox and other choreographers who work on energy, syncopated rhythms, stops, silences, dynamics and surprise, while promoting individual expression and "feeling" or the modern'jazz expression was born in New Orleans, in the southern United States in the years 1920 with Martha Graham. She has evolved for decades in the world of musicals and contemporary dance. It was born from the development of successive choreographers. In modern'jazz, a touch of novelty is brought to the choreography. Jazz dance is a classification shared by a wide range of dance styles. Prior to the 1950s, it refers to dance originating from the African vernacular dance styles of America. In the 1950s a new genre of jazz dance, modern jazz dance, was born with roots in traditional Caribbean dance. All personal styles of jazz dance have their roots in one of these two origins. The different types of jazz are: traditional, gospel, funk and primitive Afro-Caribbean. A more polished style is Broadway jazz, which is danced in musicals in New York and other cities. Jazz has its origin in 19th century American black dances, when some diluted forms of black social dances were adopted by whites. He gradually took on elements of ballet, as well as other more modern dances. He went through different dance influences like the Charleston, the Big Apple and the Jitterbug. As a stage dance, theatrical dance of the 1940s saw greater development and in the 1950s and 1960s a style was born that took the elements it needed from both ballet and modern dance and from dance. slammed. Thus, from that moment generating several ramifications of jazz dance. As of today, this dance is more practiced by children, adolescents and adults regardless of gender or skin color. Jazz dancing is a dance genre that is easy to recognize, but not easy to define. It is, like other forms of dance and music, an African influence in Western culture. "Jazz dance was developed by African Americans in the early part of the twentieth century". Its origins can be traced back to social dance and jazz music, but it has evolved into stage dance. Today, jazz dance is taught to stage dance students. The ISTD (Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing) lists jazz dance under 'Modern Theater', and IDTA (International Dance Teachers Association) lists it in their 'Theater Branch'. Professional stage dancers are sure to have some sort of jazz dance background. Modern ballet has also been influenced by jazz dance. Balanchine's Ballet Slaughter on 10th Avenue was the highlight of the Broadway musical On Your Toes (1936), Kathleen Dunham and Bob Fosse were famous jazz dancers and choreographers.