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    Expoción de Ingles Grupal

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    The document discusses typical dances in the United States, including their origins and evolution over time. It provides details on 4 main dance types: rock and roll emerged in the 20th century from American folk music styles and spread widely in the 1950s; swing developed in the 1930s from jazz and featured fast rhythms suited for big bands; the charleston originated in South Carolina in 1903 and is characterized by syncopated kicks and turns; and tap dance, also known as claqué, is a solo dance performed through rhythmic foot tapping to music, with tap dancers seen as percussionists.

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    Expoción de Ingles Grupal

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    The document discusses typical dances in the United States, including their origins and evolution over time. It provides details on 4 main dance types: rock and roll emerged in the 20th century from American folk music styles and spread widely in the 1950s; swing developed in the 1930s from jazz and featured fast rhythms suited for big bands; the charleston originated in South Carolina in 1903 and is characterized by syncopated kicks and turns; and tap dance, also known as claqué, is a solo dance performed through rhythmic foot tapping to music, with tap dancers seen as percussionists.

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    The document discusses typical dances in the United States, including their origins and evolution over time. It provides details on 4 main dance types: rock and roll emerged in the 20th century from American folk music styles and spread widely in the 1950s; swing developed in the 1930s from jazz and featured fast rhythms suited for big bands; the charleston originated in South Carolina in 1903 and is characterized by syncopated kicks and turns; and tap dance, also known as claqué, is a solo dance performed through rhythmic foot tapping to music, with tap dancers seen as percussionists.

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    Expoción de Ingles Grupal

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    Maria Victoria Gastañadui
    The document discusses typical dances in the United States, including their origins and evolution over time. It provides details on 4 main dance types: rock and roll emerged in the 20th century from American folk music styles and spread widely in the 1950s; swing developed in the 1930s from jazz and featured fast rhythms suited for big bands; the charleston originated in South Carolina in 1903 and is characterized by syncopated kicks and turns; and tap dance, also known as claqué, is a solo dance performed through rhythmic foot tapping to music, with tap dancers seen as percussionists.

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    What are the typical dances in

    the United States?

    • In the United States we can find a wide variety of


    typical dances that came mostly from slaves who
    were dragged to the country in the 19th century,
    and others with origins in the traditional dances
    of European settlers. Nowadays rhythms like
    swing are very fashionable and are becoming one
    of the favorite social dances for people of all
    ages. Next we review the main American dances.
    American dance, a tradition in constant evolution

    There is so much to come, so much left behind, and so much


    uncertainty and immense promise of everything that lies
    ahead, that everything indicates that this young century is
    witnessing a decisive change in the history of American
    dance. A candid look at American artists in action reveals a
    vast panorama of dance, from classical to modern to
    postmodern and beyond. Each of our dance traditions has a
    distinctive flavor, and each demands attention: the living
    legacies of George Balanchine and Antony Tudor, the ever-
    surprising genius of Merce Cunningham, the American
    exuberance of Paul Taylor, the social dedication of Bill T.
    Jones and Joe Goode, along with a vibrant new generation of
    choreographers who are responding to the amazing growth
    of dance companies and their audiences from coast to coast.
    Types of American dances

    There are 4 most famous types of dances in the United States

    Rock And Roll swing   charleston claqué/tap

    It is perhaps the Swing music is a dance-focused The Charleston is a popular


    most famous dance in the style of jazz that became popular dance that originated in 1903 in Tap dance, also known as tap, is an
    in the 1930s, with rhythm and the city of the same name in American dance style that is
    United States and is melodic phrasing that suggest South Carolina, USA. Their music characterized by the movement of the
    characterized by its dizzying speeding up time during is syncopated in 4 beats of 4. It is feet to the rhythm of the music through
    and crazy rhythm. It is a performance. Thus, another danced to the rhythm of kicks a musical tap. It is a choreographed and
    improvised solo dance with one or more
    mixture of various American repetitive dance rhythm emerged and steps like the Susy Q and dancers and is known for syncopation. «It
    folk music: blues, rhythm, until the simplification that was dynamic turns and the step can be said that the tap dancer is one
    boogie woogie, etc. It began very suitable for consumption. We known by all in which you walk more musician in the orchestra and his
    highlight Benny Goodman as the one step forward touching the instrument is his shoes as percussion
    in the first half of the 20th maximum representative and the ground and another step back through the hits to the musical rhythm
    century and spread from the characteristic formation of this while your arms move. They produced by the metal plates«.
    1950s. style was the Big Band. move like a pendulum.

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