Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century

Rooted Jazz Dance brings together jazz dance scholars, practitioners, choreographers, and educators from across the United States and Canada with the goal of changing the course of practice in future generations. Contributors delve into the Africanist elements within jazz dance and discuss the role of Whiteness, including Eurocentric technique and ideology, in marginalizing African American vernacular dance, which has resulted in the prominence of Eurocentric jazz styles and the systemic erosion of the roots.

Jazz Dance Teaching Manual

Jazz Dance Teaching Manual by Tom Ralabate is published by the Chicago National Association of Dance Masters

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeSeptember 9, 2018book, in print, technique, instruction, beginners, fosse, debra mcwaters, ben vereen, bob fosse

The Fosse Style

Debra McWaters has put together the ultimate visual and verbal guide to Fosse's way of dancing, choreographing, and teaching.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeAugust 29, 2018book, in print, technique, instruction, beginners, fosse, debra mcwaters, ben vereen, bob fosse

Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches

Featuring discussions of such dancers and choreographers as Bob Fosse and Katherine Dunham, as well as analyses of how the form’s vocabulary differs from ballet, this complex and compelling history captures the very essence of jazz dance.

Bob Fosse's Broadway

This show by show analysis of one of Broadway's preeminent American choreographers, the angular and jazzy Bob Fosse, is delivered by Fosse compatriot, dancer, and road choreographer Margery Beddow.

PublicationsMelanie GeorgeJune 26, 2018book, in print, analysis, bob fosse, fosse, broadway, margery beddow

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