{"id":40802249472,"date":"2020-09-23T15:25:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802249472"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:17:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T14:17:38","slug":"adjunct-professor-boross-featured-in-award-winning-documentary-uprooted-the-journey-of-jazz-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/adjunct-professor-boross-featured-in-award-winning-documentary-uprooted-the-journey-of-jazz-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjunct Professor Boross Featured in Award-Winning Documentary &#8220;Uprooted &#8211; The Journey of Jazz Dance&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Boross, adjunct professor in the Department of Music and Theatre Arts, is appearing as a featured commentator in a new documentary on the history of American jazz dance. &#8220;Uprooted &#8211; The Journey of Jazz Dance&#8221; has been awarded Best In Festival in the Dance On Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center and the Grand Prize Best Musical Documentary at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40802249476 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/09\/uprooted_the_journey_of_jazz_dance-885751922-mmed-204x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/09\/uprooted_the_journey_of_jazz_dance-885751922-mmed-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/09\/uprooted_the_journey_of_jazz_dance-885751922-mmed-280x413.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/09\/uprooted_the_journey_of_jazz_dance-885751922-mmed-102x150.jpg 102w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2020\/09\/uprooted_the_journey_of_jazz_dance-885751922-mmed.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Boross is a noted expert on the jazz dance style of legendary dancer\/performer Matt Mattox. In the documentary, he gives insight into Mattox&#8217;s contributions to the dance form and is seen instructing a class of students in the Mattox jazz dance technique.<\/p>\n<p>Boross teaches jazz dance, tap dance, ballet, and modern dance at Monmouth University. He has choreographed the Monmouth University productions &#8220;The Drowsy Chaperone&#8221; and &#8220;Company,&#8221; as well as the Shadow Lawn Stage equity theater production of &#8220;My Way &#8211; A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra<em>.&#8221; <\/em>At the Two River Theater, Boross conceived and choreographed &#8220;Empty Sky&#8230;The Rising,&#8221; an evening-length dance theater piece examining hardships endured as a result of 9\/11, set to 11 songs from Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s twelfth studio album, &#8220;The Rising.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Boross, adjunct professor in the Department of Music and Theatre Arts, is appearing as a featured commentator in a new documentary on the history of American jazz dance. &#8220;Uprooted &#8211; The Journey of Jazz Dance&#8221; has been awarded Best In Festival in the Dance On Camera Film Festival at Lincoln Center and the Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1929,"featured_media":40802249718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,423],"tags":[],"person":[],"audience":[],"school":[],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802249472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-accomplishments","category-faculty-perspectives"],"squareimage":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802249472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1929"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802249472"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802249472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802265220,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802249472\/revisions\/40802265220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802249718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802249472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802249472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802249472"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802249472"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802249472"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802249472"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802249472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}