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"Rhythm is communicated via melodic or rhythmic vocal scats. I always let the students and the musician know how many counts apart each line should begin as this varies depending on vocabulary. Each line begins when the musician calls dancers into the progression with a rhythm break. "

(Hubbard, K.W. 2008, "Valuing Cultural Context and Style: Strategies for Teaching Traditional Jazz Dance from the Inside Out", Journal of Dance Education, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 110-116.)

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"Dance form developed by African-Americans in the US in the early part of the 20th century. It drew on African rhythms and techniques which isolated different parts of the body in movement. The name was first used during the First World War, and by the 1920s jazz had been taken up by white society. Its absorption into show business, through films, television, and Broadway, brought it an enormous international audience. In 1936 Balanchine choreographed the jazz ballet Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, as the climax to the Broadway musical On Your Toes and jazz continued to influence the ballet stage, for example in works by Robbins and Tharp. Leading jazz choreographers have included Katherine Dunham and Bob Fosse."

(Jazz dance 2010, , 2nd edn, Oxford University Press.)

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"Jazz dance entails far more than simply dancing to jazz: the genre has its own aesthetic traditions and its own kinetic vocabulary. Building on the work of his mentor, the prominent choreographer and teacher Jack Cole, Mr. Mattox is widely acknowledged as having been a primary shaper of those traditions in the mid-20th century and afterward."

(Fox, M. 2013, Matt Mattox, 91, Dancer for the Movies, The New York Times Company, New York, N.Y.)

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Hollywood considered Matt Mattox one of the best dancers in the country when he was cast to dizzying effect in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," the 1954 Oscar-winning film celebrated for its imaginative and masterful dance moves. (

Nelson, V.J. 2013, OBITUARIES; MATT MATTOX, 1921 - 2013; 'Superhuman' Hollywood dancer and choreographer, Tribune Interactive, LLC, Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Here is a link to show you a video of Matt Mattox's own choreography

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INCORRECT sickled relevè in first position

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INCORRECT sickled relevè in first position

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Here is a link to show you the kind of technique we have been learning in Jazz from September to date.