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The Evolution of Dance: World War I -1990s

The Evolution of Dance: World War I -1990s. By: Clara Easterlin. Roaring Twenties: Jazz Age. In the roaring twenties, women abandoned their corsets, wore shorter skirts that exposed their ankles, cut their hair short, and the music became a lot more jazzier.

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The Evolution of Dance: World War I -1990s

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  1. The Evolution of Dance:World War I-1990s By: Clara Easterlin

  2. Roaring Twenties: Jazz Age • In the roaring twenties, women abandoned their corsets, wore shorter skirts that exposed their ankles, cut their hair short, and the music became a lot more jazzier. • Fox-Trot escaped the pre-war stigma and became the favorite "new" dance of 1920. The Charleston also became a favorite dance during this time period. • Blues expanded from a side note in 1912 to a major influence in American music during the twenties.

  3. During WWII •The Jive and the Jitterbug becoming the most popular dances. The jive was actually a dance brought to England by American troops during the war. •At this time there was a shift from dance bands to concerts in night clubs.

  4. The Great Depression • The Wall Street Crash of 1929 ended the Jazz Age, as The Great Depression set in. • Martha Graham represented America’s mutual experience during the Great Depression and made her audience aware of the social effects of the Stock Market Crash in 1929.

  5. 1950s • Rock n Roll became the big thing for the baby boomer generation after World War II • Rock'n'roll music was attacked on all fronts, records were banned • Radio DJs were ordered not to play certain songs • Rock singers, especially Elvis, were condemnedand the career of rock promoter Alan Freed, the man who named the music rock'n'roll, was destroyed by a government investigation.

  6. 1960s • From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, line dancing became a tradition. • The Twist replaced many solo steps because women tried to be more independent

  7. 1970s: The Disco While Rock music in the 1950s featured the stars on stage with the audience in the dark, Disco reversed this and put the audience in the spotlight For the first eight years, Disco was an underground movement. A film called Saturday Night Fever (December 1977) helped turn the simmering subculture into a mainstream fad, resulting is a 30-fold increase in disco clubs. Disco was defined by sophistication: it was upscale and classy

  8. 1970s Supposed to be as if you are living in a futuristic world for a night It was a shift from hard hitting rock bands to large string and brass sections It brought the return of partnered dancing

  9. 1980s 
Break Dancing became the new craze of the 1980s as it was born from hip-hop influences. Started as a street dance in the 70s. New age punk and heavy metal in the 80s led to slam dancing (moshing) -Punk: an aggressive style of music and dance expressing dissatisfaction with traditional society -Moonwalk was made popular by Michael Jackson at the same time of the early MTV era

  10. 1990s Country Western music and dance existed before the 90s, but at this time its popularity migrated from rural areas to the cities. Hip Hop became the most relevant dance at this time. It moved from the streets to mainstream entertainment in theater, TV, the radio, and movies

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