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A variety of jazz styles will be taught including Luigi, Matt Maddox, West Coast, Fosse and Giordano. Students will gain strength, flexibility and coordination through technical jazz exercises (based on ballet technique). Classes include warm-up exercises followed by movement across the floor and choreography. To excel in jazz dance, the dancer must master ballet techniques.
Jazz is great for maintaining fitness!
Jazz dance is a form of dance commonly used in Broadway shows and movies, by the Rockettes in New York and on MTV. Jazz is more contemporary kind of dance as compared to ballet. Some traditional musical jazz numbers are All That Jazz and Chicago.
The essential roots of jazz dance come from Afro-American culture from the late 1800’s up till the mid 1900. Pioneers took the essence of caribbean traditional dance and made it into a performing art.
In jazz dancing the movements are big and exaggerated and there is usually an attitude the dancer conveys to the audience. For example, in a modern number like Livin' La Vida Loca, the dancer would probably be happy, and look like they were at a party having a really rockin' time.
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