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WHAT IS this thing called jazz? Or, more pertinently, what is this thing called jazz dance? Jack Cole, one of the earliest practitioners of jazz dance as a theatrical form, was fond of calling it "urban folk dance," which certainly cute, even demonstrably accurate, but doesn't get us very far along the descriptive trail. Perhaps the neatest definition is in the 1977 edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet, which suggests it was "Developed--like jazz music--by the American Negroes, who took African dance techniques, based on polycentrism and the isolation of individually moving parts of the human body, and adapted them In the needs of their new social surroundings." We're getting there.
The word "jazz" found its general currency around World...
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