Jitterbug

Harlem, the 30’s. Opening: recording of Thomas Fats Waller. Then a live piano starts playing and five performers, Armelia, Nell, Andre, Ken and Charlaine, join it singing dressed up really fancy in a Harlem Renaissance style [“Ain’t MisBehavin’”]. The five all sing about the joy for fidelity but then they tell that it can’t get hard waiting for love [“Lookin’ Good, But Feelin’ Bad”]. Nell and Ken are talking about going to church on Sunday and then, after that, go to the cabaret on Monday…

creation of the lindy hop was one of the earliest swing dance forms that was a motion created within jazz and tap influences. This was created by African Americans in social dance settings. Connecting the lindy hop's movements, the movement of the jitterbug was influenced by Caucasian individuals. This caused more style influences and new movements to be created for the style of jazz. With the setting of ballroom style jazz dancing to social dance settings, the movements of jazz was influenced…

When Bill Robinson was only 7 years old his grandmother raised him after the death of his parents. At age 5 years old Robinson began tap dancing for a living. He would soon drop out of school to pursue a career in the Art of Dance. In 1886, he joined the Mayme Remington’s troupe in Washington, D.C, and toured with them. In 1891, at the age of 12 years old Robinson joined a traveling company in the South before the War. in 1905 he worked with George Cooper as a vaudeville team, which…

Band, replaced Ellington’s band to become the Cotton Club’s house act for eight years. According to Notable Biographies it was at the Cotton Club that he developed his trademark “crisp, jazzy song-and-dance style”. Calloway helped popularize the jitterbug through his unique style. Additionally, he was also a huge proponent of scat singing and helped popularize the singing style along with Louis Armstrong and others. Some of his most popular songs were Hi De Ho, The Jumpin’ Jive, The Lady with…

James Brown once said that “The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing”. Personally I think that swing dance is one of the most fun forms of dancing. While learning this unit my two favorite dance forms were- West Coast Swing and the Lindy Hop. Both the dance forms are successfully able to combine elegance with speed and more of a jazzy rhythm. West coast swing happens to be the state dance of California.Some sources say that the west coast swing has roots in the Lindy Hop.…

Ballroom dancing isn’t only great for socializing and dancing, but also for losing weight. It can help you get fit and in shape. Dancing, an activity everyone can do, whether it’s alone, with friends, or with a partner. Ballroom dancing,a traditional partner dance, which couples form in a closed dance position. Ballroom dancing has several different forms, The waltz, the swing, the tango, and the salsa. They each originated in several different places, such as Germany, Austria, and New…

plentiful on most rivers around this time. Usually you can see bass feeding on the surface, much like a trout eating bugs on the surface, but instead of sipping a fly they bass will smash it like a Mack truck. Ever since I was young and would drag jitterbugs across the surface on a spinning rod, top water fishing has always been my favorite method. 7. Find moving water Bass—mainly smallies—will hang out on the edge of moving water. Areas around culvert inlets and outlets are a good place to…

roots in West African traditional dance. It is an individual style dance performed with a rhythmic focus, in dialogues with gravity. The dance started with tap, then traveled the social circle with dances like the Charleston, big apple, and the jitterbug and then become a formalized technique through the innovators such as Jack Cole. With the demand of its circulation, studios started giving more of the classes making it possible to mark its presence in Broadway shows and musical comedies.…

The above quote depicts death as a permeable state, as though it is a series of doors to pass through with ease. In this quote, Kudra courageously and defiantly refers to death not as a permanent state but rather a part of life. This treatment of death as a bystander rather than a villain is unique and is a part of the inspiration for my rendering of the Goddess of the Earth, Ouroboras. As death is a permeable series of rooms to walk about, it creates a cyclical image of the cycle including all…

Every time my family goes to my grandparents house, I’ll always see this little make-shift shack made out of ply-wood and crates and barrels. The crazy thing is that there’s always someone stopped and buying some homegrown authentic farm food. Makes me wonder what’s the difference between that and what we sell in the grocery store. Even these strangers know the difference between authentic and processed. Although book characters aren't the same as vegetables and pumpkins, they do have an obvious…