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Matt Mattox (b. August 18, 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a jazz and ballet dancer. Events 293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Jazz dance is an umbrella term that can refer to several related dance styles Ballet is a formalized form of Dance with its origins in the French court further developed in France and Russia as a Concert dance

Mattox was a protegé of the legendary jazz dance pioneer Jack Cole, with whom he worked on Broadway in Magdalena (1948). Jack Cole may refer to Jack Cole (choreographer (1911&ndash1974 Jack Cole (artist (1914&ndash1958 Jack Cole (businessman Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. His other Broadway credits include Harry Beaton in the 1957 revival of Brigadoon. Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Brigadoon is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. Mattox also performed concert engagements with his own dance company. His brief career as a Broadway choreographer included Jennie and Say, Darling. For the Douglas Preston novel see Jennie (novel. Jennie is a musical with a book by Arnold Schulman, music Say Darling is a three-act comic play by Abe Burrows and Marian and Richard Bissell about the creation of a Broadway musical • Matt Mattox took the fluid, animalistic style of Jack Cole and merged it with his own vast background in ballet technique to create a technique for jazz dance that is clean, powerful, and extremely challenging. His jazz class is assembled in the progression of a ballet class, and he calls his exercises "the barre. " Mattox also has specifically designed the exercises to relate to the combinations given at the end of his class. The positions, shapes, and qualities developed during the barre are visible within his own detailed and polished style. However, Mattox had a higher profile as a specialty dancer in Hollywood musicals. His best-known film role is Caleb Pontipee in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but he was also a principal dancer in, among others, Yolanda and the Thief, The Band Wagon (Cyd Charisse's partner in the ballet sequence), Till the Clouds Roll By, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and There's No Business Like Show Business. Yolanda and the Thief ( MGM) is a 1945 Hollywood musical comedy Film set in a fictional Latin American country and stars For the musical see The Band Wagon (musical. The Band Wagon ( 1953) is a Musical comedy film that many critics rank (along Cyd Charisse ( March 8, 1922 &ndash June 17, 2008) was an American Dancer and actress. Till The Clouds Roll By is an American musical - biographical film made by MGM in 1946. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks There's No Business Like Show Business is a 20th Century Fox film that was released on December 16, 1954. In addition, Mattox was a regular guest on television variety shows, for which he choreographed as well as performed. A variety show or variety entertainment is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts especially Musical performances and Comedy Skits and

One of the world's most influential teachers of jazz dance--or, as he called it, "freestyle dancing"--Mattox now lives and works in Perpignan, France.

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