Mambo included very little vocal sections, if any, but was primarily instrumental dance music. Mambo found its way to prominence after Perez Prado created a dance for this new genre. In 1943, he introduced his new dance at the La Tropicana night club in Havana, Cuba. After spreading his new genre of mambo to Mexico and New York City it had become a very popular, and by the mid 1950’s it had reached its height in New York City. Mambo was then played at the famous, Palladium Ballroom, where famous mambo dancers of the day such as Augie and Margo Rodriguez and Louie Maquina showcased
Lindy hop is an African-American dance that originated in the Savoy Ballroom Harlem, New York in 1926. It is a mix of different dances including the Charleston, Jazz and Tap. The dance came around the time that Jazz music evolved and is a member of the swing dance family. It is a partner dance that consists of both 8 and 6 count steps and is quite fast. The dance style involved many kicks flicks and turns.
For nearly a century, people have been enjoying the fast, energetic dance of the Jive. Nearly every generation to experience the Jive has left an identifiable handprint by altering the methods, the rhythms, the footwork, or the partners. Within this version of dance, there are three subsections that are often found; lovers of the style, music, or fashion of the traditional Jive, those who have discovered it through Ballroom Dancing and often refer to it as ‘Ballroom Jive’, and those who have discovered it through local swing clubs, where they teach a much more modern version of the Jive, known as the French Jive, Le Roc, or Ceroc. As generations of different musical tastes have grown and evolved, the style and movements of the Jive have evolved as well, but the core fundamentals and appeal has never faltered. When speaking to anyone who is familiar with dance found in the 1920’s through the 1960’s, it is naturally commonly acknowledged that the father of not only the Jive but also the entire Swing Dance division was the Lindy Hop.
Through dance, a story can be told. Ballet is a compromise of classical and formal dance. Ballet is a dance of exquisite taste and is extremely strict on movement. Ballets are a choreographed technique and performed by highly trained dancers. “They are set to music and poised in a style of dance which incorporates the foundational techniques for many other dance forms.” Ballet is an intense theatrical performance put forth by solo dancers, duets, and choruses, or corps de ballet.
The play Grease by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey was very entertaining. It flashed back to show what life was like in the fifties. Grease was a romantic comedy about two teens who met each other and fell in love. It also showed how cliques ruled high schools. Co-authors Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey were able to use their past and present life experiences to create the hit musical Grease, which some critics found entertaining, and some found mediocre.
This building played an important role during the 1950’s when there was a boom in the popularity of Latin music. Several famous Latin music artists played there, like the “Big Three,” which consisted of Machito, Tito Puente, and Tito Rodriguez. They introduced this new type of music to people of several races. It caused the Palladium to become an interracial ballroom, which was rare during that period. Although the popularity of the music eventually declined, it doesn’t change the fact that the ballroom is an important part of Latin music culture.
Gene Kelly choreographed several dance and drama films, one called “An American in Paris” (1951). Michael Kidd is also an outstanding choreographer, who produced motion picture choreographer, in which dance further is the story line. Debbie Reynolds was another familiar name in movie musicals of the 1950’s. She was not a trained dancer but had great stage charisma. Her breakthrough in 1950 was in “Two Weeks with Love”, starring
Scott Joplin had played in New York, and other great musicians followed in his footsteps. After The Original Dixieland Jazz Band played on Broadway, jazz musicians imitated the New Orleans sound. While not attaining the undisciplined and wildly erratic beat of New Orleans jazz, the popularity of jazz in New York increased drastically. The 1920s proved to be a Golden Age of jazz in New York. Jazz was diverse and appealed to people from every echelon of society.
This made the movement have an overall jazzy tone. With the introduction of the third movement, the tone shifted to serene and tragic—specifically during the cello solo that was then mimicked by the violin. As the tone and texture changed in the fourth movement, towards almost a fun sort of romp with the use of staccato notes, the tension began to grow and climax. The ending, in fact, was very feudal but
- See more at: http://timeinjamaica.com/ettu_dance#sthash.gzowyClv.dpuf Quadrille Quadrille originated from the popular dance of the French and English in the 18th and 19thcenturies. It highlighted the elegance and mannerisms of the elite of these societies. It is however believed that Quadrille began in France as it was the leading country in cultural development, especially in the dances of the period. Quadrille is performed in four distant movements called figures, A fifth or “brawta” figue was later added to the dance – the Mento. The Square and Long Way Set formulation of Quadrille was