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unusual facts about jazz dance



Dance India Dance

The show features a variety of Indian cultural and international dance styles ranging across a broad spectrum of classical, contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz, Kalaripayattu, Salsa, Samba and musical theatre styles, amongst others, with many sub-genres within these categories represented.

Nik Weston

Based out of London, UK, he was from the late 1990's to 2007 a key player in the promotion and distribution of Japanese recording artists and their releases outside of the country, as part of the late 1990s into 2000s revival in the jazz dance, soul-jazz and electronic Japanese music scene.


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Dingwalls

In the late-80s/early-90s, Dingwalls was venue to the famous jazz dance club Talkin Loud and Saying Something, with Gilles Peterson and Patrick Forge.

Marshall Stearns

He and his second wife, Jean, wrote a second book, Jazz Dance, which was published posthumously in 1968.

Tom Pazik

His works have been in the repertoire of the Atlanta Ballet, Augusta Ballet, Baltimore Ballet, Boston Ballet, Joffrey II, Washington Ballet, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Dance Alive, Gainesville Ballet, Georgia Metropolitan Dance Theatre, Tampa Ballet, Gwinnett Ballet Theatre, Peninsula Ballet, Atlanta Dance Theatre, Ballet Hawaii, Augusta Dance Theatre, The Greenville Ballet, and The Philippine Ballet Theater.

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

Of all the members of Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Al Minns, Leon James and Frankie Manning are amongst the most famous -- Minns and James in part for their role in the research of Jean and Marshall Stearns's influential book Jazz Dance, Minns for his work with The Rhythm Hot Shots during the 1980s' swing revival, and Manning for his role, starting in 1986, in contributing to the swing and Lindy Hop revival after Minns died in 1985.