Jazz dance is divided into several kinds

The style of jazz dance covers a wide range of levels, including:

1. classical jazz (classical jazz): the traditional jazz dance, common in the opera.

2. ballet jazz: ballet fusion. But this kind of jazz, not by jazz music, but because of the dance trend and combined together. Because jazz dance itself than ballet has explosive, such as the pose of the frame, jumping, kicking, etc., is not ballet.

3. Latin Jazz (LATIN JAZZ): In fact, this genre is not obvious, but Latin Jazz, the beginning of the International Standard Dance, like Samba and so on. Regardless of boys and girls, jump up and have a kind of passionate and unrestrained, full of temptation.

4. Street dance jazz (HIP HOP JAZZ): hip hop rhythm in the beginning of the jazz dance.

5. NEW JAZZ (NEW JAZZ): is now generally in the jazz dance, pose point is more, before may be a dance, and then look for music, but the new wave of jazz is to have the music and then with the choreography, such as various music MTV. NEW JAZZ early in the United States by the evolution of ballet from the New York, but it is through the JANET JAKCSON " IF" MTV, only through the "IF". NEW JAZZ's characteristics can be said to be a kind of JAZZ plus HIP-HOP dance, but NEW JAZZ is not categorized as one of the disciplines in HIP-HOP. It is characterized by the extension of the body, each movement of NEW JAZZ has a fixed angle and swing, when you make hand movements will have the feeling of infinite extension, this feeling is like someone is pulling your hand.

6. acid jazz, and jazz inside the style of the song; street jazz is also a case of fusion and street dance. Early jump jazz wind is more prevalent, now jump hiphop more people, so jazz requires new changes, the fastest way is to learn like the new trend. To say hiphop jazz and street jazz what is the difference may be a little difficult, but in short is the product of the times!

7. Stage jazz High hats and canes were the common props used in stage jazz in the old days, but stage jazz is not limited to this. Stage jazz has a flamboyant style, with a swinging quality to the syncopated jazz accompaniment. Stage jazz has followed the evolution of Broadway musicals. They evolved from the glitzy, light-hearted entertainment of the 1920s to the carefully managed and tightly structured revues of the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1920s and '30s, jazz and tap were often little more than a sideshow to the drama of the opera.

8. Modern Jazz Dance Shades and movement qualities of ballet and modern dance movements are common in modern jazz dance. In addition to the angular movements and bright limbs and torso movements typical of jazz, fluid and sustained movements are used to emphasize slender lines and curves. Downward wrist presses, stylized fusillades and postures are as important in stage-style jazz as they are in modern jazz. Modern jazz differs from street jazz in a few distinct ways.

Modern jazz dancers often have a background in ballet training, which allows them to comfortably combine one-legged turns and bent-legged balances with jazz walks and slide steps. The dancers are able to harmonize the head, shoulders, torso and hips in precise swings and twists, making this style of jazz very enjoyable to watch.

9. Street Jazz Dance Now generally known as street jazz dance, in fact, mainly including breakdancing and Hip Hop two categories.

As early as the 1970s, a novel movement called "popping & locking" has appeared. This mainly consists of rapid and powerful head, shoulders, arms, hips and other parts of the protruding and locking movements. In the United States, there was a dance group called "The Lockers", who were the exponents of this dance. They performed this new style of dance on TV programs, and their clothes and costumes were exaggerated like clowns. Although the group was only popular for a short time, the style evolved into breakdancing in the late '70s and hip hop in the '90s.

Breakdancing is a free, open pattern of movement, with the main moves including: electric boogie, which is like an electric current passing through the body. - The main moves include: electric boogie (as if there is an electric current passing through the body), poppin' - moving parts of the body suddenly and violently, sort of like a sudden muscle spasm) and breakin' - a gymnastic-like spinning on the floor, sometimes supported by the hands, but also using the arms, back, knees and even the head as support. sometimes supported by the hands, but also by the arms, back, knees, and even the head). This kind of dance originated in the black ghettos of New York in the seventies; it is actually a channel for street teens to challenge and communicate with each other. Whoever did the hardest spins and danced the best was recognized by their peers. The rise of electronic music and the disc jockey's preference for the technique of "erasing vinyl" are also closely related to the rise of breakdancing. Dancers performed a wide range of stop-motion and unexpected special moves as the disc jockey controlled the sudden changes in the music.

Breakdancing began to fall out of favor in the late '80s and was replaced in the '90s by Hip Hop, a dance that also reflected teenage street culture, and almost every kind of dance has a relationship to the music that accompanies it, and Hip Hop is no exception. Hip Hop is no exception. In addition to its unique music (Rap), it also has unique clothing (very wide pants, big exaggerated T-shirts, and baseball caps worn upside down), and a unique vocabulary. Rap singers also love to wear NBA jerseys, so even dancers are following the trend. Since jazz is a dance genre that is constantly catching up with trends, the influence of current pop culture on jazz is obvious.

Street jazz dance also has its roots in the African style of movement, but it doesn't use a beat that is typical of jazz swing. In addition, street jazz movements are not choreographed for stage performance, so the expression of street jazz dance does not focus on the technique and aesthetics of typical jazz dance, but rather on interpreting the music and lyrics of the song. In contrast, the movements of street jazz are less complex in terms of musical rhythm.

The main types of jazz are tap, stage jazz, modern jazz, and street jazz.