Provide an historical overview of the main periods in your dance genre's history, including the composers and dancers most noteworthy during each period.
During the 1600 – 1700’s was a particularly hard time for the African Slaves. They struggled through inhumane conditions to survive, but they still wanted to express their feelings through dancing during this time. This was the birth of jazz dance and only the start. The style was a collaboration of European dance that highlighted the harmonies and social dance, combine with African styled dance that emphasized the rhythm and torso movement as well as integrated low movements, bent knees, isolations, hand clapping. The Americans started to take the slaves for granted and mimicked