Jazz Dance Basic Skills Self-Teaching Video Tutorial

Jazz Dance Characteristics and Movements

Dance Characteristics

The essence of jazz dance movements is a free and pure expression, directly to the inner feelings of the body with the body's trembling, trembling, twisting expression. Just like when we hear our favorite music, we can naturally show our feelings from the inside, and our body can't help but follow the rhythm of the music, such as snapping our fingers, swinging our heads and feet, sometimes excitedly, sometimes slowly and softly, and then dissolve into the music.

Jazz dance is a kind of rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, is a kind of outward-looking dance, unlike the classical ballet or modern dance performance of a kind of introverted dance. Jazz dance is mainly a performance of movement and melody, the main purpose is to entertain others as well as themselves, can bring themselves and others a good time, which is why its performance is not at all pretentious, the dance exudes a pleasant atmosphere and the spirit of happiness is very contagious. Although it is said that you must have very good skills to become a successful jazz dancer, but almost everyone can master its basic steps, and jazz dance performance space is very wide, personal color and unique style is the most eye-catching place to dance.

Jazz dance is mainly the pursuit of a pleasant, lively, angry kind of dance. It is characterized by the freedom to jump, not like the traditional classical ballet must be limited to a form and comply with the inherent posture, but with the disco kind of complete self-enjoyment of the `dance is different, it is still in the free in the presence of a kind of present law. For example, it will be with jazz music to express feelings, but also with the help or imitation of other dance techniques; such as in the footwork and movement, the application of ballet position and principles of movement, tap dance skills of sensitivity, modern dance contraction and relaxation of the torso, the Latin dance steps and swing buttocks, as well as the Oriental dance of the upper body to move the position, and so on.

Basic Movements

Utilize bent knees to bring the center of gravity closer to the ground. Keeping the center of gravity low gives flexibility to the lower limbs, while the joints of the upper body remain loose and allow for quick, metronomically-demanding movements, allowing for a wide range of variations in movement.

Rapid movement of the center of gravity, especially horizontal movement posture is the jazz dance skills.

Allow each part of the body, such as the head, shoulders, waist, hips, and torso, to move independently.

Emphasize angular and linear movements.

Use rhythmic and complex divisions to show the rhythm of the movement. For example, if we place a heavy beat on the head or on the hand, we cut the hand and head movements from our own movements, and do not move at the same time as our own movements. That is to say, a movement can be completed in one beat, but we now divide it into four beats, and the movement is also divided into four parts.

Polyrhythms rapidly express two or three rhythms simultaneously with the body.