For our jazz choreography project, my group based our choreography on the style of jazz dance from the 1920’s and the 1950’s. We did not base our choreography on a specific dancer instead we based our piece off of the style of the flappers. In our choreography, we tried to emulate the upbeat, sassy, and cheeky nature of the flapper's style of dancing. We accomplished this by incorporating the Charleston and some elements of the swing dancing and the jitterbug. In the creation of our piece, we used canon. Canon is when people perform the same move one after the other. I would use this again because I found that it added complexity and entertainment value to the dance. As we developed our dance, we found it helpful to choreograph by the music.
