BLACK DANCE HISTORY on Instagram: "The Electrifying UK Jazz Dancers of the 1980s known as the IDJ (I Dance Jazz) dancing to "The Peanut Vendor" by Argentinian pianist Lalo Schifrin. During the 1980s in London and other Northern UK cities and towns, an underground movement of dancers and DJs were creating a wild, frenzied, and electrifying style of dance called “Old School Jazz Dance,” or simply “Jazz Dance.” A blend of vernacular jazz, tap, ballet, West Indies and African dance traditions, these