Jazz Blog - 1st Year 2019/20 School Year.
In this blog I will be researching into three jazz choreographers, Bob Fosse, Jack Cole and Jerome Robbins. I will be showing the several reasons on how their choreography is so unique as well as explaining how the qualities of their choreography can be seen in the jazz dances we perform in class. Firstly, I will begin with Bob Fosse. Bob Fosse was a director and a choreographer of jazz dance in the 1900’s. He changed the perception of dance and paved the way for other choreographers through his unique movement. His chorography was provocative and physically demanding on the dancers. Bob claimed to have struggled in dance class with turnout and extensions. This led to him focusing on other components of the movement such as the rhythm and the style to hide his physical limitations. This is how his style came about (Davis,2020, A). His unique style and choreography went onto win him 8 Tony awards (Nickolaou,2019). Fosse’s movement contained angular and odd-looking poses which mak...