Dance

Jazz, Musical Theatre and Tap


Musical theatre is a genre that has a style of its own. It encompasses music, dance and theatrical acting in its self. In 7 brides for 7 brothers, the movements were like ballet but along a long continuum. They were using movement that were spontaneous and encompassed the movement of acrobats which is a theatrical performance.
In Jazz Hot one could not recognize that is was actually a musical theatre piece. I actually could see the musical theatre in this after it was brought to my attention. It also encompassed music, dance and performance into one. The moves of the performers and the main star which was the mature women brought attention more to the theatrical performance other than waiting for them to perform another dance move.
Tap is a fascinating part of dance within its self. It lies at the other end of the continuum compared to ballet but it also has...