Jazz Blog Year 1

Exploring Three Jazz Practitioners The three practitioners explored within this essay are Jack Cole, Bob Fosse, and Jerome Robbins. Who all had huge impacts on the jazz world due to their unique qualities. Firstly, one quality of Jack Cole is that he choreographed hundreds of movies, television, nightclub and theoretical shows (Watsons, 2013). He was put under contract as the Dance Director of Columbia Pictures, one of the top studios at that time. This highlights how much of an in-demand choreographer he was; this was in comparison to when he first started when his work was not as profound. In the beginning he created his own company called "The Jack Cole Dancers" and performed in nightclubs from New York to Havana (Harss, 2016). He rapidly became a favourite of audiences across The United States. The dancers he picked for his company were seen to be legendary. This was mainly down to the technique he trained them in and how every movement he choreographed, had to be s...