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Jazz Age Dances

Jazz Age Dances. Lyan Carreras Miguel Fernandez Manuel Torres. Introduction. After WWI, America was a changed place. Ragtime music had evolved into new forms; jazz, blues and new kinds of dances evolved along with the music. The focus in the Jazz Age was definitely on youth.

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Jazz Age Dances

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  1. Jazz Age Dances Lyan Carreras Miguel Fernandez Manuel Torres

  2. Introduction • After WWI, America was a changed place. • Ragtime music had evolved into new forms; jazz, blues and new kinds of dances evolved along with the music. • The focus in the Jazz Age was definitely on youth.

  3. Dancing Attire • This dance era of “prep”, personified by the slim girlish “flapper”, with her bobbed hair and short skirts. • Her male companion, the “sheik” with his ukulele, raccoon coat and bell-bottomed oxford bags.

  4. Charleston Dance • Was introduced to the public in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1923. • Dance halls and hotels regularly held Charleston contests, so we have a legacy of hundreds of variations from the basic swiveling Charleston step and touch. • The monkey knees was a famous step of the Charleston. Many people ended up going to hospitals complaining to their doctors that they had “Charleston knee”.

  5. Charleston Dance

  6. Black Bottom Dance • Was originally from New Orleans. • The dance is said to be a copy of a cow’s hind legs stuck in mud. Black people copied from the cows, so they dance imitating the cows. • The Black bottom rose as something to renew the Charleston dance.

  7. Black Bottom Dance

  8. Quickstep Dance • Developed during WWI in New York. • Foxtrot was a dance in 1914. The Quickstep was developed from it, but as a faster version. • This dance became popular and was mixed with the Charleston. • It is a proven fact that the energy exerted while dancing a 60 second Quickstep, is equivalent to running a mile.

  9. Quickstep Dance

  10. Flapper Movement • The flapper wasn’t necessary a dance, but it was used to describe young girls who had not yet reached womanhood. • When the girls moved or danced they would make a “flapping” noise when wearing the flapper.

  11. Flapper Movement

  12. The Great Gatsby • The Jazz Age Dances are represented in The Great Gatsby by the following : a) In Jay Gatsby’s mansion, he holds parties every night and people go to have fun, party, and dance. b) In the movie, we saw dances like the Charleston, the Flapper Movement and the Quickstep.

  13. Shimmy Dance

  14. Varsity Drag Dance

  15. References • Quickstep. 2008. Dance Lovers. April 24,2008 <http://www.dancelovers.com/ • Jazz Age Dance. April 17,2000. Mixed Pickles Vintage Dance Time Line. April 24, 2008 http://www.mixedpickles.org/jazzdance.html • 1923 Charleston Dance Becomes Popular. Jennifer Rosenberg. 2008. About.com. April 24, 2008 http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/qt/charleston.htm • Flappers in the Roaring Twenties. Jennifer Rosenberg. 2008. About.com. April 24, 2008 http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm • Black Bottom. August 18, 2007. Sonny Watson’s Streetswing.com. April 24, 2008 http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/z3blkbtm.htm • http://www.youtube.com

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