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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"jazz dance"”.
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Exploring dance: An outline for the study of dance appreciation with suggested films
Exploring Dance: An Outline for the Study of Dance Appreciation with Suggested Films surveys the history of the dance genres--ballet, ballroom, tap, and jazz--used in film musicals. Dance creators, their contributions to the art, as well as salient characteristics of each period are discussed. Each …
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Resistance training and its improvement on passive and active range of motion and performance within young adult female jazz dancers: a literature review and intervention study
Resistance training programmes within dance have been thoroughly researched in the genres of ballet, contemporary and modern dance. There is a gap in the research on the style of jazz dance which inspired the current literature review and intervention study. The literature review investigated …
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Dancing About Architecture: Choreographing the Anacostia Waterfront
… in, to craft a space that celebrates the rich dance culture of Anacostia. My thesis goal is to foster a celebratory atmosphere through an interconnected design that harmonizes with its environment. My research involves exploring the relationship between dance, architecture, and trees to create …
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Black jazz-informed dance: The performance of rhetoric and resistance in Los Angeles-based Jazzantiqua Dance and Music Ensemble
… predominantly Black, Los Angeles-based, concert jazz dance company, JazzAntiqua Dance and Music Ensemble. In conversation with the fields of dance studies, rhetorical arts, and Black radical thought, this research pursues the question of how rhetoric is embodied through movement vocabularies that …