An
early popular "jazz dancer" was vaudeville star
Joe
Frisco in the 1910s. He danced in a loose-limbed style close to the
ground, with eccentric steps. Until the middle of 1950s, the term
"jazz dance" often referred to tap dance, because tap dancing (set to jazz
music) was the main performance dance of the era. During the later
jazz age,
popular forms of jazz dance were the
Cakewalk,
Black Bottom,
Charleston,
Jitterbug,
Boogie Woogie,
swing dancing and the related
Lindy
Hop.
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