In The Jazz Continuum, LaTasha Barnes, Alain Lauture, and other dancers seamlessly interweave recent dance styles, including hip-hop and voguing, with elements of the Lindy Hop, a popular swing dance of the 1930s with roots in the Black American community of Harlem, New York. Inspired by Barnes’s curiosity about the similarities between the Lindy Hop and these seemingly unrelated dance styles, the show’s choreography makes visible how intertwined their histories actually are. The show is therefore a testament to the Lindy Hop’s enduring influence on American culture.
Desmos Graphing Calculator
Verbal·Craft and Structure·Text Structure and Purpose
hardWhich choice best states the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?
A
It addresses the reasons why the historical connections between the dance styles mentioned earlier in the text have been generally overlooked.
B
It provides evidence for the text’s claim that the Lindy Hop has had a greater cultural impact than the other dances featured in The Jazz Continuum have had.
C
It identifies the specific ways in which the Lindy Hop is similar to the contemporary dance styles discussed in the text.
D
It identifies the motivation for The Jazz Continuum’s choreographic approach that is described earlier in the text.