Is Jabbawockeez the language from Jabberwocky?”
“Jabberwocky” is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, originally featured as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1872). It is considered by many to be one of the greatest nonsense poems written in the English language.[1] The poem is sometimes used in primary schools to teach students about the use of portmanteau and nonsense words in poetry, as well as use of nouns and verbs.[2]The first verse originally appeared in Mischmasch—a periodical which Carroll wrote and edited for the amusement of his family—claiming to be a piece of Anglo-Saxon poetry. Several of the words in the poem are nonce words of Carroll’s own invention, many of them portmanteau. In the book, the character of Humpty Dumpty gives definitions for the nonsense words in the first stanza. In later writings, Lewis Carroll explained several of the others. The rest of the nonsense words were never explicitly defined by Carroll, who claimed that he did not know what some of
The amazing dance crew known as the JabbaWockeeZ name originated from the poem called Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, which is considered the best nonsense poem written in the English language (info from Wikipedia). The Jabberwocky (Jabberwock) is the dragon featured in the poem.. Anyhow, this picture is showing a JabbaWockee and the Jabberwocky doing battle to see who is more fierce. You be the judge of who the winner is…
To finish off the show with a bang, the JabbaWockeeZ performed to help Joshua Sundquist for creating “Less Than Four,” which is a website for amputees to get together and meet others like them. Josh was diagnosed with cancer as a kid and lost his leg and is now an amputee himself. There was a huge JabbaWockeeZ mask with glowing red eyes in the middle of the stage for their performance. JC Chasez gave thanks to everyone for coming out for tonight’s show and said this was his favorite episode of America’s Best Dance Crew.
