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It may be the very freedom to go all over the map that has made jazz dance the lingua franca of Broadway.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-AUG-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: It may be the very freedom to go all over the map that has made jazz dance the lingua franca of Broadway.(On Broadway)

Article Excerpt
Think about the stellar Broadway jazz dancers and sooner or later you'll find yourself considering Gwen Verdon. Whether vamping an unwary young baseball player in "Whatever Lola Wants" in Damn Yankees or romping in a movie star's bedroom in Sweet Charity's "If My Friends Could See Me Now," Verdon epitomized the sassy, brassy dance style that has been the beating pulse of Broadway musicals front the 1930s to the present day.

But if you try to figure out what made her the great jazz dancer she was. things get a little tricky. Read her entry in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance: "She studied ballet with Ernest Belcher...

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