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Cakewalk-competition the couple that performed the best high kicking strut won a cake as a prize
later popularized by minstrel shows became the dance craze of the 1890s
3 dances survived since plantation contests--buck dancing: heavy beaten, flat footed two step
jig: rapid, light hopping dance closely related to the irish jig
buzzard lope: synocopated brushing patterns were reborn in the 1920s as the charleston |
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1800s-1920s
Early American Entertainment |
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dominant musical styles of this era: folk, spirituals, brass band, blues, ragtime, and dixie
jazz walks steps and movements:
falling off the log, scissors, polka, cakewalk, castle walk, grapevine, tango, charleston, buck and catch, knee jazz, itch, black bottom, buck and wing, rubberlegs, trenches, sugars, cagney, shimmy, legomania, french twist, texas tommy, hornpipe, jumping jim crow, patting juba, buzz, shim sham, off to buffalo, mess around, ring shout, buzzard lope, snake hips, virginia essence, shuffle, sand, gring, pecking, jig, clog, mooche, cross over, jazz & flash steps, varsity drag, waltz clog, soft shoe, essence, strut, over the top, turkey trot, eagle rock, fox trot, bullfrog hop, jazzbo glide, walk the dog, tack annie, wings |
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1930s-
Boogie woogie, big bands, swing, blues & jazz |
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| dance movements-jive walk, lindy, jitterbug, shorty george, hinge walk, camel walk, around the world, flick ball change, frankenstein, kimbo, andrew sister's shimmy, swing, suzie q, boogie woogie, truckin', flea hop, crazy legs |
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1940s
Big Band, Be Bop, Afro-Cuban, Latin Invasion |
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| dance movements--boogie woogie movements continued, conga, calypso, samba, merengue (latin social dance form) |
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1950s
Rhythm and Blues, Rock and Roll, Cool Jazz, Hard Bop |
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| dance movements--mambo, cha cha, locomotion, west side story influence, jitterbug, stroll, fly |
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1960s
English Invasion, Brazilian Invasion, Soul & Midtown |
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| dance movement: twist, pony, jerk, monkey, mashed potato, temptation walk, hand jive, underdog, hully gully, boogaloo, watusi, shimmy variations-swim, shotgun, hitchhiker, frug, dolphin (late 60s), four corners, tighten up, freddy |
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1970s
Popularized music computerized, salsa, reggae |
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| dance movement: disco walk, hustle (latin hustle), line dances (bus stop), funk movement, break dancing |
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1980s
Breakdancing, music videos and Rap |
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| dance movement: MTV dancing, break dancing, aerobic dancing, new wave movement, hip hop, moon walk, lambada, punk movement, rap, lyrical jazz |
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1990s
Techno, Alternative, Rap and Jazz Mix, Acid Jazz, R&B |
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| dance movement: techno dancing, hip hop, vop, rap, robo walk, roger rabbit, joker, wild thing, vogueing, humpty dumpty, electric slide, in fusion, buddy, running man, rave, hammer, lambada, dirty dancing |
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| dance movements: locking, boogaloo-a, popping, tutting, waving, liquid dancing, crazy legs, dime stopping, fast forward, floating/gliding, puppeting, robot/botting, ticking, freestyle, breaking, b-boy/b-girl, toprocking/uprocking, floor-rocking/down-rocking, power moves, freezing, krumping, clowning, stripper dancing, grinding, running man, hammering, fila, wobble, whichaways, scooby-doos, skeeter rabbits, gansta walking, monastery, jukin, a-town stomp, lean and rock, chicken noodle soup, rockaway, harlem shake, soulja boy (crank that), cupid shuffle |
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