[Dixielandjazz] Jazz Dance "Mash-Up"

[David Richoux]

BTW, if you cannot make out the link on that video - http:// 
www.caljazzdance.com

> Founded in 1998, The CHJDF is a collection of several thousand  
> items relating to early American dance starting before 1900, up  
> until mid century. the Collection is used help foster preservation  
> through education regionally and worldwide.
not too much else I see on their website, but there is this: http:// 
www.caljazzdance.com/peter.htm for more info...

Dave Richoux

On May 19, 2006, at 7:53 PM, David Richoux wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> If you remember back a few months on this list about a "mash-up"  
> that took a ragtime song and made it mix with an Eminem rap song -  
> I just found a video that mixes the famous jazz dancers Al Minns &  
> Leon James (with computer generated "new moves") to a hip-hop song,  
> at a '60s Playboy Mansion party!
>
> Ain't computers fun?
>
> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm? 
> fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=593402085&Mytoken=BF27E528- 
> B763-9B5A-B2ED151AB7295B541625146
> or http://tinyurl.com/jbtbw
>
> and for another un-mashed Al Minns & Leon James dance:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjSLzlEhnC0&search=lindyhop
>
> I am sure that the Nicholas Brothers, Al & Leon and many other jazz  
> dancers would have been "Break Dancing" with all the kids if they  
> had made it to this era ;-) BTW, this style has been going on for  
> more than 30 years - is it "traditional" yet?
>
> Dave Richoux
>
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