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The Art of Jazz dance is a fusion of different styles of dance that started between 1800’s, and the middle of the 1900’s rooted in African Yank movement.
One man famous for this kind of dance was the star of vaudeville Joe Frisco around 1910 who danced in a unrestrained fashion in close vicinity to the ground while tossing his cigar, and derby in a juggling demeanour.
The Jazz dance style up to the middle of 1950’s was Tap dance which was always performed with Jazz music like the Jitterbug, Swing, Dance Woogie, Lindy Hop, and the Charleston.
Katherine Dunham is famous choreographer and dancer studied the cultural dances of Caribbean in Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Martinique and Shango making this African Yank dance a modern work of pure art. She took this style to Hollywood and Broadway who welcomed a more refined Jazz dance.
Modern Jazz Dance is a smooth style of dance roots from Tap, Ballet and Jazz music which is performed in several musicals from the Pajama Game to Cabaret to Chicago to music videos and the Vegas showgirl performances. The common methodology for Jazz dance is that of a ballet dancer for balance and strength from doing slow movements. In contrast the standard Jazz dance has pointy movements, but the talents of ballet smoothes it down into a refined style.
Likewise , Jazz dance is a flexible style that it can be mixed with other dances from lyrical, up to date and hip hop. Jazz dance like Jazz music can be mixed with other dance styles to improve the dance to another level. For example, the UK witness a new movement of dancers in the 1980’s who danced when the Jazz, and Funk music clubs was becoming friendless known as Street Fusion Jazz Dance.
Because of the new modern music scene, new groups who longed to keep the convention of Jazz dance, and still leave room for the new styles. There are 2 groups famous for street fusion jazz dance known as IDJ ( I Dance Jazz ), Bro in Jazz and Jazz Cotech. Famous folk of the Earth of Jazz dance is Fred Astaire, Jerome Robbins, Jack Cole, and Bob Fosse. In the world of Jazz Dance there are terms folk use to explain diverse dance movement.