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The Charleston Dance: A Popular Dance In The 1920s

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The "Charleston" Dance: An I-Search Paper
What I Knew Before My Research
Before my research I knew that my topic was a popular dance in the 1920s. The dance comes from the song "The Charleston". I choose this topic because I found it very interesting, I found this topic interesting because the1920s was an entertaining time period, the dances created then must be a fun topic. I would love to find out more about my topic. Such as why was the dance created? How did it become popular? Who created the dance?
The Story of My Search
While I was searching, I found may interesting things. My research was kind of hard, most of the websites said the same things. During my research I found may answers to most of my questions. I also found out many things that I did not know was possible. Researching this topic has been a lot of fun. …show more content…

"The dance consisted of complex knee bending, ankle twisting, and kicking movements,"(Hicks 261). The dance was based off a song written by James P. Johnson. The song was based off the rhythms he heard being sung by Charleston port workers, (Hicks 261). The dance was popular during the roaring twenties.

During the time that The "Charleston" was popular, it was more popular in other places than it was in Charleston. The dance became popular all around the world. The Charleston was danced to fast paced jazz songs. The best type of music to dance The "Charleston" to is Ragtime or New Orleans/Dixieland Jazz,(Charleston Dance: Most Popular Terpsichorean Craze of the 1920s).

When the dance first showed up in the broadway production Runnin Wild. When the dance first started to show up more often only professional dances because of the complex movements. "Many thought it would only be performed for audiences in exhibition,"(Charleston Dance: Most Popular Terpsichorean Craze of the 1920s). Bu soon enough the dance was beginning to become popular as a dance that everyone

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