Animal dance
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TheAnimal Dancecraze was directly related with the popularity ofragtimemusic (improvisational melodies with syncopated beats, fromAfrican-Americantraditions). There were an endless varieties of animal dance fads, such as: Horse Trot, Kangaroo Hop, Duck Waddle, Squirrel,Chicken Scratch,Turkey Trot,andGrizzly Bear.[1]The general idea of these dances was that dancing couples were supposed to imitate with their own movements the movements of various animals after which the dances were named.[2]
Both music and dance reflected the vibrancy of modern, urban influences. The music is typified byScott Joplin’s rags and made popular to the middle class by "Alexander's Ragtime Band,”published in 1911. The dances incorporated in the Animal Craze are parts of the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
References
[edit]- ^Nadine George-Graves,"'Just Like Being at the Zoo', Primitivity and Ragtime Dance", in:Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular Dance Reader,2009,ISBN025207565X,pp. 55-71
- ^Blog, Skate Guard."Skate Guard: The Animal Dance Craze".Skate Guard.Retrieved2021-09-21.
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