Jazz-art-technology
by Elisabeth Frich
ISBN-10: 3817040024

Illustrated with over 800 photos, this book provides an excellent overview of Mattox’s dance technique. It includes a number of Exercises, narrated by Mattox itself. All the major motion moments photographically illustrated and explained, so that this reference work as dancers, choreographers, teachers and students of any skill levels can be useful.

Jazz Dance: History, Theory, Practice

by Helmut Günther
271 pages
Henschelverlag
Publication Date: 2005
ISBN-10: 3894874988
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Structure and objectives of the course: This is a kind of dance based its roots in ballet and develops in the 40s with the explosion of the Broadway musical. The term jazz has remained, although the style has evolved and modernized through studies on the technique of the movement of some of its great interpreters, like Matt Mattox, Alvin Alley and others. The jazz dance, however, does not bind to the fees prescribed, but on the contrary can range from a genre classic and “soft” on the most dynamic and gritty of the ballet to television.

Jazz began as one of the popular dance moves of the early twentieth century.
At that time, jazz was the music that is heard on the radio. The dance steps took the name “jazz” music of jazz.

We already have the answer, it was not difficult to explain it? In fact, it was quite simple, but this response leads to another question: is the dance that we call jazz is now worthy of its name? The ballet is easy to recognize.

As soon as we open the feet, hair in a sleek and the arms cargo that we’re seeing ballet. However, jazz is a little more difficult. The term is a jazz label that put the dances of Broadway shows from MTV videos of concert dance companies such as Hubbard Street, street dancers, the dance groups and dancers drill1 tap. Read the rest of this entry »

What is the dance and why to give different names to their statements?
Dance is body movements that follow a rhythmic pattern, usually accompanied with music and serving as a form of communication or expression.

Every human being has the quality to express themselves through movement.
What is dance?
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In the mid-twentieth century takes elements of ballet, dance and contemporary tap. Since then, there are new styles that accentuate the body line, the mobility of the torso, etc..

There is also the work of fast legs and accurate, unlike the feet turned out like ballet, these are in parallel. Furthermore, exaggerated movements of individual parts of the body as the shoulders. “JAZZ” comes from the OLD FRENCH “JASM” VITALITY OR “Slang JAS,” SEX. Read the rest of this entry »

Jazz dance developed in America in the hands of jazz music and its origins date back to the folk dances of the African peoples. Despite numerous stylistic variations (for example ‘beat’, ‘primitive’) can be recognized principles that characterize normal movements. The following techniques will be explained briefly:
Isolation
Polycentricity
Tension-distension
Locomotion
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Jazz dance is a generic term that covers both the social dances as dance theater.

The term appears in 1917 to designate a syncopated music derived from black American culture, and then used freely to describe dances performed with this rhythm. From here, the word evolved into public performances and to refer to forms of dance associated with cabarets, theaters, film, television or video clips.

The philosophy of jazz that has influenced the great black American vernacular dance was resumed by the white community that spread throughout the world, close to the “Cake Walk”, the “Charleston”, the “Lindy hop” to reach the “Rock “, the” Funk “to” Breakdance “and other styles of dance to” Hip Hop “today. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the 30s, the rise of big bands in Cuba was an indisputable fact, and his presence on the island had been in the previous decade. So little haphazard and more as a logical development of the spirit of Jazz, Cuban gangs imposed a contract on the island, from Northern America, as those incorporated into their repertoire Cuban music, especially danzón, boleros, canciones, as formula for the exploitation of commercial music. At this time we found the banda of the Castro brothers, the Curvelo the Palau, Don Aspiazu Havana Casino and also the Siboney, Alfredo Brito, the Lecuona Cuban Boys, Armando Oréfiche, the Casino de la Playa, the Armando Romeu , Riverside, among others.

Parallel to the indisputable presence of jazz in Cuba, there is the phenomenon of expansion of Cuban music in the entertainment capital of the moment: Madrid, Paris, Mexico are among the capital welcomed ardent enthusiasm of Cuban music. This increases the exchange between artists, which produces an “invasion” of these orchestras Cuban capital.

There are testimonies of researchers like Leonardo Acosta establishing the parallelism that was lived to the 30s between the traditional Cuban music and jazz, as in the presentations the audience was even the traditional music of Cuba, as Cuban jazz, a sign Clearly, the wide acceptance of the two styles by attending the famous sites such as the cabaret era Boat drunk. Read the rest of this entry »

Trion disseminates an energy and joy that the game must be experienced live! They own compositions encountered and wet for a long time, are the foundation of a competent and impressive interplay.

The Other Trio has a broad range of its own expression with a strong connection to the American tradition. The repertoire can be found mostly own compositions, but the trio never reluctant to play a different standard. Expression is dynamic and the group always tries to ensure as acoustic sound as possible. Read the rest of this entry »