Authentic Solo Jazz-The Tranky Doo

Name: Authentic Solo Jazz-The Tranky Doo
Start: 2025-02-23T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-02-23T13:00:00+02:00
Location: [space available]

Schedule

Sun Feb 23 2025 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

[space available] | Nicosia, NI

Authentic Solo Jazz - The classic choreos-The Tranky Doo
This is an open level dance workshop. If you want to add different movement in your dancing, if you like jazz music and you want to move to it, if you already know a little bit of Solo Jazz, this is the workshop for you!
This workshop is part of the Available Sundays intiative by [space available]. These types of initiatives help communitites like ours to grow, bond and learn!
Location: [space available]- https://maps.app.goo.gl/284hBZ7C8cJQ1k9N7
Date: Sun 23rd Febr
Time: 11:00am-13:00pm
free of charge! (contributions are welcome!)
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Authentic Solo Jazz is a vernacular type of dance that was popularized by the African-American community alongside other dances under the jazz umbrella such us, the Lindy hop (Swing), the Charleston, the Blues and many others during the 20s-30s-40s.
The origins of Tranky Doo start in a Chicago club. A chorus girl with the nickname “Tranky Doo” was given a spotlight for being the last girl to leave the stage, right before leaving the stage she would show-off a step before exiting, as the last chorus girl often did. Her show-off step was a fall of the log into a shuffle into boggies. This was the inspiration for Frankie Manning when he choreographed the Tranky Doo routine and often performed it in social settings in Savoy with his dance group the Congaroos and fellow dancers started picking up the routine and it became popular.
Here is a clip from the infamous documentary the Spirit Moves, where the Tranky Doo is performed by Al Minns, Pepsi Bethel and Leon James