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Jazz Dance Vocab & History
Quiz by Amanda Caldwell
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​What is a Jazz Dance grapevine?
a turned-out low walk using shoulder opposition
step together step
steps moving sideways - side, back, side, front
a fruit-bearing vine
​What is an isolation?
to disengage from another group
a movement of one part of the body
a half turn
a big kick
What is a Jazz Dance grapevine?
What is an isolation?
What is ball change?
What is a jazz square?
What is a pivot?
What is a pirouette?
What is a chasse?
What is a leap?
What is vernacular dance?
Jazz in its dance form, originates from these immigrant cultures:
Vernacular dance styles of the African-American performers was considered too __________ for the Broadway audiences.
What musical was credited with helping to unite the white Broadway and black jazz communities.