Jack Cole (choreographer)
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Jack Cole (choreographer)
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Jack Cole was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as "the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance" for his role in codifying African-American jazz dance styles, as influenced by the dance traditions of other cultures, for Broadway and Hollywood. Asked to describe his style he described it as "urban folk dance". His work as a dancer and choreographer began in the 1930s and lasted until the mid-1960s. Beginning in modern dance, he worked in nightclubs, on the Broadway stage, and
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American choreographer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Cole_(choreographer)
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2005-12-15T19:18:06Z
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2024-08-27T12:11:43Z
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