Bob Boross -My Jazz and Tap Dance Life
Bob Boross -My Jazz and Tap Dance Life
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"Cool" from West Side Story - A concert jazz dance
This is my jazz dance choreography to the song "Cool" from the Broadway musical West Side Story - although this music version is a concert arrangement by Dave Grusin.
My choreography is influenced by that of original West Side Story choreographer Jerome Robbins, but I do feel that I have enough of my personal approach in it to make it my own.
The piece debuted at the 2002 Gypsy Awards Show at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, honoring tap dancer Gregory Hines and film star June Haver. I was thrilled that Gregory Hines sought me out after the show to tell me that he was impressed with the choreography!
Here the piece is performed in 2016 by my dancers from Shenandoah University/Virginia,...
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Rose Boross Memories
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Memories of Rose Lena Boross, July 21, 1926 - January 22, 2024
One Knee Replacement Down...One More to Go!
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Bob Boross details his process in eliminating a bacterial infection in his previous knee replacement. It's a two operation process - first to remove the compromised knee device and replace it with a temporary "spacer," then intravenous antibiotics to kill the infection, followed by a second operation to insert a new, permanent knee replacement.
Bob Boross Needs Two More Knee Replacements??
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I talk about how I discovered that I have a bacterial infection in my knee replacement, and the remedy which will require two additional knee replacements.
Till The Clouds Roll By
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1947 Film, showing musical comedy steps and the early introduction of ballet vocabulary. Choreographed by Robert Alton.
Dance 111 - Irene and Vernon Castle
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Dance 111 - Irene and Vernon Castle
Dance 111 - The Cakewalk and Master Juba
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Dance 111 - The Cakewalk and Master Juba
Dance 111 - Ring Shout
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Dance 111 - Ring Shout
Dance 111 - African Dance
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This is an example of African Dance movement and characteristics
Bob Boross - Second Knee Replacement Update
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Bob Boross welcomes viewers back to his jazz and tap dance video channel, with an update on current jazz dance teaching and channel subscriber count. Bob also details his 2nd knee replacement procedure, now four weeks after surgery.
Nat Horne Jazz Dance Master Class
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Noted jazz dance teacher/performer Nat Horne gives a jazz dance combination in a master class held in June 1989 at the Red Bank Dance Academy/NJ. During the 1950s and 60s Nat Horne danced in sixteen Broadway shows for choreographers including Jack Cole, Matt Mattox, and Ron Field. Horne was also a member of Alvin Ailey's original company. He began teaching his version of Matt Mattox's jazz danc...
Paul Draper - Tap Dance Documentary
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Paul Draper was a pioneering tap dance artist, melding tap dance and ballet technique in his career as a solo tap dance artist during the 1940s and 1950s. In this documentary from December 1979 dance workshop, American Dance Machine artistic director Lee Theodore invites Draper to teach his unique approach to a select group of tap dancers and to create a group concert tap dance piece. Bob Fosse...
Knee Replacement Day 59 - Finally Back In The Studio!
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Jazz dancer Bob Boross is documenting his knee replacement recovery process. At day 59 he is finally back in the studio, trying some exercises at the ballet barre and also a jazz dance warmup.
Bob Boross Knee Replacement Day 45 - Progress...But oh so slowly!
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Bob Boross Knee Replacement Day 45 - Progress...But oh so slowly!
Bob Boross - Knee Replacement Day 28 - Update
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Bob Boross - Knee Replacement Day 28 - Update
Bob Boross - Knee Replacement - Day 21 Update
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Bob Boross - Knee Replacement - Day 21 Update
Knee Replacement - Day 13 - "If everything is better, then why is it not better?"
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Knee Replacement - Day 13 - "If everything is better, then why is it not better?"
Bob Boross Knee Replacement - Day Nine
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Bob Boross Knee Replacement - Day Nine
Bob Boross - Jazz Dance Knee Replacement - Week 1 Update
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Bob Boross - Jazz Dance Knee Replacement - Week 1 Update
Bob Boross Knee Replacement - Day 1
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Bob Boross Knee Replacement - Day 1
Bob Boross - Jazz & Tap Dance - Channel Update 6-13-2021
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Bob Boross - Jazz & Tap Dance - Channel Update 6-13-2021
Bob Boross Jazz Dance Channel Update - April 27, 2021
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Bob Boross Jazz Dance Channel Update - April 27, 2021
Charles Kelley - Acrobatics and Tumbling Instruction - Part 1
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Charles Kelley - Acrobatics and Tumbling Instruction - Part 1
American Dance Machine - Ballroom to Broadway and Back with Lee Theodore
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American Dance Machine - Ballroom to Broadway and Back with Lee Theodore
Jazz Dance Class at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy
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Jazz Dance Class at the Boris Eifman Dance Academy
"Slaughter on 10th Ave" from 1939 film "On Your Toes"
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"Slaughter on 10th Ave" from 1939 film "On Your Toes"
MUST READ! Jazz Dance History Books
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MUST READ! Jazz Dance History Books
The American Dance Machine - "Living American Theater Dance!"
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The American Dance Machine - "Living American Theater Dance!"

Комментарии

  • @rypo4097
    @rypo4097 12 часов назад

    Perfect! Just what I needed!😊

  • @igorg.8624
    @igorg.8624 8 дней назад

    I wonder how his work influenced later latin dance genres, i.e. Bachata

  • @user-es5iw8eo4x
    @user-es5iw8eo4x 10 дней назад

    3:43

  • @user-es5iw8eo4x
    @user-es5iw8eo4x 10 дней назад

    5:13 5:45

  • @user-es5iw8eo4x
    @user-es5iw8eo4x 11 дней назад

    5:20, 6:13, 6:54 warm up

  • @thebeccafly
    @thebeccafly 14 дней назад

    Wow. Lovely. Had it up on my big screen tv with the lights out. Beautiful. Magical. Thank you for allowing her life to grace mine for a few moments. 🕊️💜

  • @katyaaaa22
    @katyaaaa22 19 дней назад

    So good!

  • @sarahjanelay9509
    @sarahjanelay9509 Месяц назад

    I’m sorry about your sweet momma

  • @lorene50
    @lorene50 Месяц назад

    I just spoke with Nat Horne on the elevator in our shared apartment building in Manhattan Plaza. Mr. Horne is 94 years old and still looks incredible.

  • @user-es5iw8eo4x
    @user-es5iw8eo4x Месяц назад

    0:30, 1:40, 2:50, 3:40, 5:33

  • @lh1418
    @lh1418 2 месяца назад

    I love this. Thank you❤

  • @sabrina2xparker548
    @sabrina2xparker548 2 месяца назад

    My grandmother and before her were Ghullah Geechee and I was taught this dance and do it to this day

  • @erikahentschke5208
    @erikahentschke5208 2 месяца назад

    His wonderful laid back style has never been surpassed

  • @SuzanneAlexander-qz7ht
    @SuzanneAlexander-qz7ht 2 месяца назад

    Can’t thank you enough for your delightful teaching. It is such an honor to learn from you

    • @bboross
      @bboross 2 месяца назад

      Thanks, Suzanne, so good that my videos are helping you in your tap dance studies!

  • @BraillestoneAFS
    @BraillestoneAFS 2 месяца назад

    Studied with J David Kirby - a student of Mattox’s - for many years. The last few decades I’ve longed for that warmup more times than I can count; like I had some powerful dance drug, and nothing else will suffice …

  • @BraillestoneAFS
    @BraillestoneAFS 2 месяца назад

    I’ve happily just hit dance pay dirt - thank you for taping and posting this jazz gold❣️

    • @bboross
      @bboross 2 месяца назад

      Thanks, there are also other Mattox class videos and exercises on my channel.

  • @debbiesales4248
    @debbiesales4248 2 месяца назад

    He was truly amazing x

  • @user-es5iw8eo4x
    @user-es5iw8eo4x 2 месяца назад

    0:44 3:13 4:21 4:55

  • @brandymcfarlane8873
    @brandymcfarlane8873 2 месяца назад

    Do you teach private classes for pay? This is beautiful information and the cuing is amazing

    • @bboross
      @bboross 2 месяца назад

      Thanks, Brandy. Not at the moment, I’ve been having knee problems. Maybe soon!

  • @joellemadeleine1
    @joellemadeleine1 3 месяца назад

    rib cage and moving the arms its very dificult. the mind cannot understand it🤔, the only way is to train daily. thank you for sharing

    • @bboross
      @bboross 3 месяца назад

      Yes, it takes regular practice for increased improvement and mastery!

  • @merranoneill2407
    @merranoneill2407 3 месяца назад

    I really feel that most of what she danced was her own design, Gwen Verdon and Chita Rivera "Isn't it grand was hers for sure- and most of Chicago- she's the best

  • @alexandremccormack
    @alexandremccormack 3 месяца назад

    Thank you so much for this. Really fascinating to understand for example why Mura didn't focus on tap dancing so much. Also realising how much work she did to better understand the artform.

  • @catherinecarella2928
    @catherinecarella2928 3 месяца назад

    Shirley Jones the singer?!

  • @SandroDance1
    @SandroDance1 4 месяца назад

    Jazz raiz ❤❤❤❤❤

  • @mariannaslukova5534
    @mariannaslukova5534 4 месяца назад

    excellent work Mr.Boross

    • @bboross
      @bboross 4 месяца назад

      Thank you!

  • @sugarfreedom
    @sugarfreedom 4 месяца назад

    I played Joan at Sierra Rep years ago. Your tutorials are helping me tap again! 😀

    • @bboross
      @bboross 4 месяца назад

      What a coincidence, I choreographed the updated version of Annie Get Your Gun at Sierra Rep in 2004, I believe. The small stage in a state park that looks like a Mississippi steamboat theatre?

  • @michaelvittoria6926
    @michaelvittoria6926 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for this. I saw the original Dancin' on Broadway thirteen times!!! I ended up as a dance major at the H.S. of Performing Arts (PA) shortly thereafter. I warmly and nostalgically remembered every number and fantastic dancer discussed in this interview. R.I.P. Ann Reinking, and all who have gone on to dance with Mr. Fosse into the hereafter. 🙏💖

  • @Angelkeyz_aka
    @Angelkeyz_aka 4 месяца назад

    Omg those last few seconds of the video were where James Brown got his moves, which became Michael Jackson’s moves which became America’s signature dances of pop, locking!

  • @Angelkeyz_aka
    @Angelkeyz_aka 4 месяца назад

    As an African American, American culture would not be what it is without Africans!

  • @collineare
    @collineare 4 месяца назад

    don't know how to begin. Let me start here: I was there then, way back when: I was a scholarship student at the New Jersey Ballet School in the 60's and continued taking classes with Matt Mattox in Paris in the 70's and 80's. Matt told me at one point that I was qualified to teach his method.I know what his method is. I know what i am talking about. God bless you for your desire to spread the word, but you haven't quite grasped his work. It's not about me, so allow me to introduce you to the following people besides myself who can be of assistance: Gianin Loringett, Geraldine Armstrong, Monique Dizabo, Anatina Hug

    • @bboross
      @bboross 4 месяца назад

      I've been associated with Matt since 1986, as a student and dancer in his choreography. We became good friends, and I have documented his life after he granted me substantial personal interviews. I also asked for his permission to teach his technique and he approved. No one can be Matt, and no one should try to be him. One can only interpret his ideas through that person's body and experience. I have no desire to be a Mattox clone, nor do I try to be. I am also friends with Gianin and Geraldine as well as Martine and the deceased Babeth, having taught beside them at Rick Odum's jazz dance stages in Paris. As you say, I do have a desire to maintain and spread his work. But since you feel that you are an authority on interpreting Matt's work, I eagerly look forward to seeing videos of you posted online, teaching and performing his technique.

    • @collineare
      @collineare 4 месяца назад

      @@bboross ​ @bboross ​ @bboross Anyone who experienced Matt as a teacher back in the 60's and 70's knew the rigor with which he conducted the classes. He was almost intolarent. He used to get mad if too many of us were not getting it just right. For example: We, as the scholarship group, werre doing a ballet enchainment. We were about eleven years old. He kept stopping us and finally threw us out before the class had ended. Mind you we traveled from far to get to the school. We all left in shame and tears. Another time, a girl wasn't quite executing properly at the bar exercise; he threw his long stick down onto the bar and it broke in half. All this sounds dramatic, but we understood that there was a level of excellence needed to be achieved in order to persue a life with dance. His enchainments were always just a tad above our capabilities. By the end of a class, perhaps we mastered it. The other dancers whom I have already mentioned (trained at Theatre du Chatelet) can verify that. The outlying characteristic of the style that he taught in the above mentioned years - is of a powerful, sharp, crisp dynamic. That is what I do not see in the videos. Perhaps he changed his style in later years to a softer form. I no longer am equipped to present classes.

  • @collineare
    @collineare 4 месяца назад

    I don't know how to begin. Let me start here: I was there then, way back when: I was a scholarship student at the New Jersey Ballet School in the 60's and continued taking classes with Matt Mattox in Paris in the 70's and 80's. Matt told me at one point that I was qualified to teach his method.I know what his method is. I know what i am talking about. God bless you for your desire to spread the word, but you haven't quite grasped his work. It's not about me, so allow me to introduce you to the following people besides myself who can be of assistance: Gianin Loringett, Geraldine Armstrong, Monique Dizabo, Anatina Hug.

  • @WoodlandDance
    @WoodlandDance 5 месяцев назад

    Love the composition! Students demonstrate a firm understanding of jazz technique, and that arraignment.! Delicious :) Thank you for sharing

    • @bboross
      @bboross 5 месяцев назад

      Thanks so much. Yes, that's how I often work, setting the movement to closely reflect the rhythmic patterns in the music. And then to manipulate the groupings in a way that unfolds with ease.

  • @paulliberti2048
    @paulliberti2048 5 месяцев назад

    Oklahoma did not need a 'Dream Laurie' - Shirley Jones could have danced the dream Laurie

  • @suzannebibbo8806
    @suzannebibbo8806 5 месяцев назад

    Mesmerizing! Love it!

  • @flossie1362
    @flossie1362 5 месяцев назад

    love it, Bob

    • @bboross
      @bboross 5 месяцев назад

      Thanks!

  • @adellevacsics
    @adellevacsics 5 месяцев назад

    There is some muted part unfortunately. Please upload it again, if it's possible. :)

    • @bboross
      @bboross 5 месяцев назад

      If sound is partially muted, it's probably because of music copyright issues. RUclips can mute certain music parts.

    • @adellevacsics
      @adellevacsics 5 месяцев назад

      @@bboross I know, but also the speaking is muted...

  • @michellepezzelli2806
    @michellepezzelli2806 5 месяцев назад

    Love it!!!

  • @micaromulo
    @micaromulo 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you for this resource and keeping jazz technique alive!

  • @AstroBuoyant
    @AstroBuoyant 5 месяцев назад

    Great history of dance … history of Jazz Dance documentation The Luigi style/teaching of dance … important dance history Keep this knowledge & history going … thank you, Bob Boross

  • @etempleentedu6878
    @etempleentedu6878 5 месяцев назад

    I love Matt Mattox Jazz Dance 💐

  • @alisonc7582
    @alisonc7582 5 месяцев назад

    Condolences on the loss of your mom. I hope your recovery has continued and that you are back dancing at full speed. Thank you for the joy your channel has brought to me.

  • @miyoshiumeki
    @miyoshiumeki 5 месяцев назад

    Jerry Ames, Robert Audi, Michael Domenico and Kathy Burke (in this video) were all his disciples.

    • @bboross
      @bboross 5 месяцев назад

      I had a few classes very early in my studies, about 1977-78, with Jerry Ames at ACT48 studios near Times Square. I also studied for about ten years with Boby Audy, too.

    • @miyoshiumeki
      @miyoshiumeki 5 месяцев назад

      I was at Jerry Ames at that exact same time. How about that!

  • @dwceducation81063
    @dwceducation81063 5 месяцев назад

    You teach great techniques. However, the subtitles on the videos blocked your feet. It's hard to see what your feet are doing.

    • @bboross
      @bboross 5 месяцев назад

      Thanks, I wish there was a way to put the subtitles at the top of the page. Perhaps you can open the video in two separate tabs, have the captions running in only one of them, and then try to start both videos at the same time? If that works, you can watch the video in one tab and read the subtitles in the other tab.

    • @dwceducation81063
      @dwceducation81063 5 месяцев назад

      @@bboross Thanks. I guess turning off the caption would work perfectly! Love all of your short steps!

  • @saran3214
    @saran3214 5 месяцев назад

    They need big flouncy skirts.

  • @deborahfrasier1221
    @deborahfrasier1221 5 месяцев назад

    BRAVO 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

  • @jemandausmunchen9394
    @jemandausmunchen9394 5 месяцев назад

    Can anybody explain the story to me, as I don’t get it…. Why does he keep dancing for example, why does this save him from being shot….?

    • @bboross
      @bboross 5 месяцев назад

      The gangster planned to shoot the dancer at the same moment the dancer was going to fake shoot himself at the end note of the song, thereby masking the sound of the gunshot from the gangster. If the orchestra would keep playing and continuing the song, the end would not arrive and therefore make the gangster wait and wait for the ending of the song. They did this to stall time until the police arrived and arrested the gangster. Once the arrest happened, the dancer was relieved and free to fake his ending shot to his own head.

    • @jemandausmunchen9394
      @jemandausmunchen9394 5 месяцев назад

      Thank you!!!

  • @vsedai
    @vsedai 6 месяцев назад

    YOU have brought me peace. I saw a newer video where you were talking about what you could do at day 59. Seeing you stretch I was filled with hope, * grabs robe closed with right hand, jumps up from sofa, thrusts right fist to sky, whole body screaming ,YES!* and knew that if I do the work I will be able dance how I want to. I am gonna follow your Jazz warm up and live like I want. I dance all around my house. My mom was from News Orleans so I grew up with music and dancing. At 67, I can touch my toe to my forehead. I am Black and I try to keep up with the young folks' dances. I sit on the floor a lot and I can get up easily. I am the only one of my friends that has never had a back problem. My goal is now, (before my knee betrayed me) was to be able to squat like an person from Vietnam or China and hang out down there...comfortably. Last night my friend told me that I probably won't be a flexible after the knee replacement. So I have been very upset. Also the physical therapist said that he personally had never seen a patient after surgery that could do that. He was not sure that the knee replacement was built to do that. So inside I have been freaking out....and dancing a lot. Thank you so much for sharing this journey. I now can get this operation without so much apprehension. Can't thank you enough.

    • @bboross
      @bboross 6 месяцев назад

      Thanks, I wish you well on your journey of healing. I have to say, though, that I've had my pitfalls on my journey. I'm still not back to a normal knee yet. But I keep working on it. I have another operation coming up in March. Maybe by summer time it will be working good. I hope so!

    • @vsedai
      @vsedai 6 месяцев назад

      @@bboross 💕💕

  • @nadzeaklementenok1742
    @nadzeaklementenok1742 6 месяцев назад

    This is so exciting to find such an amazing work and talk. I am a lindy hop dancer and teacher from Eastern Europe. Always search for materials about swing dance and jazz dance history and culture. And this interview is extremely interesting and helpful. I am really thankful to you both for this talk and for the opportunity to watch it! Thank you, Bob, for great job! And thanks to Kim - it was joy to listen.

    • @bboross
      @bboross 6 месяцев назад

      Great to hear, I'm glad that you found the interview to be historically useful!

  • @footrythems5930
    @footrythems5930 6 месяцев назад

    What a Great guy 😭 ❤👏🏽