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Title: An Abbreviated History of Concert Jazz Dance


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An Abbreviated History of Concert Jazz
Dance Molly Stoltz, Karla Grotting, and Heidi
Geier Department of Theater Arts and Dance,
University of Minnesota TC
Mura Dehn 1902-1989
  • Jazz performer, choreographer, archivist,
    producer, and historian
  • Russian immigrant who moved to Harlem to
    study jazz
  • Began the Traditional Jazz Dance Company
    in 1932, which included the Savoy Ballroom
    Harlem Dancers and was possibly the first
    concert jazz company
  • Frankie Manning, James Berry, Pepsi Bethel,
    Sandra Gibson
  • and others
  • Filmed The Spirit Moves in 1950, which
    archived traditional
  • jazz dances from the 1900s to post WWII.
  • Only one of her articles on African
    American jazz dance is published, which is
    problematic as it erases traditional jazz dance
    history and does not include it in the jazz
    dance genealogy.

My life has been very fulfilling. I guess the
best way for me to sum it up would b for me to
call myself a disciple of jazz. Gus Giordano
Other Contributors
  • Jack Cole (1930s-1950s)- Chorographer at
    Columbia Pictures, used modern, East
    Indian, and Savoy to choreograph to jazz music.
  • Luigi, Matt Mattox, Danny
    Buraczeski(1960s-present) others followed
    Giordano and began companies.
  • Katherine Dunham, Alvin Ailey, and Daniel
    Nagrin choreographed to jazz music but are
    claimed by modern dance.
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