If you've always dreamed of dancing like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers, all it takes are a few tap classes to get you shuffling romantically across the dance floor. But best of all, says teacher ...
In a quiet backyard nestled in the Sherman Oaks hills, seasoned jazz musician Larry Goldings begins to play the punchy opening notes to Van Halen’s “Jump” on his prized melodica. Standing ...
Jazz was immensely popular as dance music (until the 1940s when bop came in,) and in rural areas, bands regularly played at road houses, dance clubs, movie theaters, juke joints, and vaudeville stops.
By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enact laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. The introduction of Prohibition in 1920 brings jazz into gangster-run ...
Wearing his heart on his sleeve, Williams had been open about his experience of dancing on stage before joining the Strictly dance floor. He previously said: "I trained in jazz, tap, and ballet to a ...