Question: Modern Jive is a dance style derived from this American dance originated in Harlem, New York City in 1928, which s frequently described as what dance?

Context articles: Martha Clarke
Ronald K. Brown
Modern Jive
Ira Bernstein
Street dance
Sduduzo Ka-Mbili
Alvin Ailey
LeRoc
Lindy Hop
American Dance Machine

Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions.
 She is the creator of plotless, dreamlike works that are perhaps described by the term "moving paintings.
 Her work frequently emphasizes striking visual tableaux, often directly inspired by visual art, especially painting.
 Though dance is the primary basis of Clarke's training, she has maintained a career which spans and melds dance, theater, the visual arts, and opera.
 Probably her best-known original work is "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (1984), an exploration in theatre, dance, music and flying of the famous painting of the same name by Hieronymus Bosch.
 In June 2007, a new version of the show opened the 30th anniversary of the American Dance Festival.
 On November 19, 2008, the re-imagined "Garden of Earthly Delights" opened Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City; two extensions and five months later – it ran until April 5, 2009.
Dancer and choreographer Ronald K. Brown founded the dance company Evidence in New York in 1985.
 Brown's work incorporates modern dance, Senegalese Sabar and other West African movement vocabularies, Afro-Caribbean dance, and contemporary urban dance from around the world.
 He has choreographed numerous works for his own company, as well as for Philadanco, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Maimouna Keita West African Dance Company, and many others.
 Brown has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bessie Award, a Black Theater Alliance Award, and an Audelco Award for the choreography of Regina Taylor's musical Crowns.
 He has also been a guest artist at The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts.
 He studied dance with Mary Anthony.
Modern Jive is a dance style derived from swing, Lindy Hop, rock and roll, salsa and others, the main innovation being to simplify the footwork - by removing syncopation such as chasse.
 The term French Jive is occasionally used instead, reflecting the origins of the style.
 The word "modern" distinguishes it from ballroom Jive.
Ira Bernstein (b. Malverne, New York, 1959) is a dancer and teacher in the United States who specializes in traditional American dance forms such as Appalachian-style clogging, flatfoot dancing, tap dance, and step dancing.
 He is considered an authority on clogging, and the leading figure in this dance style.
 He calls himself a "percussive step dancer who specializes in Appalachian flatfooting," and also dances Green Grass style Appalachian clogging, English clogging, French-Canadian step dancing, Irish step dancing, and South African gumboot dancing.
A street dance is a dance style—regardless of country of origin—that evolved outside dance studios in any available open space such as streets, dance parties, block parties, parks, school yards, raves, and nightclubs.
 The term is used to describe vernacular dances in urban context.
 Vernacular dances are often improvisational and social in nature, encouraging interaction and contact with spectators and other dancers.
 These dances are a part of the vernacular culture of the geographical area that they come from.
 Examples of street dance include b-boying (or breakdancing), which originated in New York City.
As a performer in S.A., Sduduzo worked in Mbongeni Ngema’s Sarafina (The Movie), starring Whoopi Goldberg, Poison Musical by David Kramer and Taliep Peterson, Soweto Dance Theatre, directed by late Jackie Semela, Free Flight Dance Company, under the direction of Adele Blank and Christopher Kindo.In 1997, Sduduzo was one of the three recipients for a full scholarship to train at the Alvin Ailey American Dance School in New York City.
 During his training in NYC, he was given an opportunity to create a piece (Izinhlungu Zami, My Sorrow) for the Alvin Ailey Repertory Dance Ensemble, which he later performed for the company.
 In 1999, he toured the US with Donald Byrd’s Harlem Nutcracker before establishing a song and dance JUXTAPOWER production, representative of the South African culture.
 Juxtapower eventually developed into a touring production that travelled extensively throughout the USA.
Alvin Ailey (January 5, 1931 – December 1, 1989) was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City.
 He is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance.
 His company gained the nickname "Cultural Ambassador to the World" because of its extensive international touring.
 Ailey's choreographic masterpiece "Revelations" is believed to be the best known and most often seen modern dance performance.
 In 1977, Ailey was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP.
 He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1988.
 In 2014, President Barack Obama selected Ailey to be a posthumous recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
LeRoc is a form of Modern Jive, a dance style that was derived in the 1980s, from dances including Swing, Lindy Hop and Rock and Roll, the main innovation being to simplify the footwork.
The Lindy hop is an American dance which was born in Harlem, New York City in 1928 and has evolved since then with the jazz music of that time.
 It was very popular during the Swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
 Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston.
 It is frequently described as a jazz dance and is a member of the swing dance family.
The American Dance Machine was a theatrical dance company created by Lee Theodore, which played on Broadway at the Century Theatre, opening Jun 14, 1978 and in total running 199 performances.
 It was duplicated with a second cast for the American Dance Festival at Duke University in 1978.
 The show was a "Living Archive" of Broadway theatre dance; great theatre dances saved from oblivion.
 Films were made of the performances to preserve original Broadway choreography and can be found at the Lincoln Center Library of the Performing Arts in New York City.
 Broadway legend Gwen Verdon appeared in film versions of the show.
 Choreographers included: Agnes De Mille, Jack Cole, Joe Layton, Michael Kidd, Ron Field, Bob Fosse, Onna White and Peter Gennaro.
 Featured dancers and guest artists included Janet Elber, Carol Estey, Harold Cromer, Liza Gennaro, Patti Mariano, Nancy Chismar, Lawrence Leritz and Donald Young.