Characteristics and movements of jazz dance

Dance characteristics

The essence of jazz dance is a free and simple expression, which directly expresses the inner feelings with the trembling, shaking and twisting of the body. Just like when we hear our favorite music, we naturally express our feelings from the heart, and our bodies can't help moving with the rhythm of the music, such as snapping our fingers and swinging our first foot, sometimes excited and sometimes slowly and gently dissolving into the music.

Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic rhythmic dance, which belongs to extroverted dance, unlike the introverted dance shown by classical ballet or modern dance. Jazz dance is mainly the expression of action and melody. Its main purpose is to entertain yourself and others at the same time. It can bring you a good time with others, which is why its performance is not ostentatious at all. The joyful atmosphere and spirit in the dance are very infectious. Although you must have very good skills to be a successful jazz dancer, almost everyone can master its basic dance steps, and the performance space of jazz dance is very broad. Personal color and unique style are the most striking places when dancing.

Jazz dance is mainly a dance that pursues pleasure, liveliness and vitality. Its characteristic is that it can dance freely, unlike traditional classical ballet, which must stick to one form and follow the inherent posture, but it is different from disco dancing, which is completely entertaining itself. It still has a modern law in freedom. For example, you can express your feelings with jazz music, and you can also use or imitate other dance techniques; For example, in footwork and movements, the position and principle of ballet, the sensitivity of tap dancing skills, the contraction and relaxation of modern dance body, the pace and hips of Latin dance, and the upper body movement position of oriental dance are applied.

basic element

Bend your knees to bring your center of gravity closer to the ground. Keep the center of gravity low, make the lower limbs elastic, and at the same time keep the joints of the upper body relaxed, and quickly make the movements required in the rhythm, so as to diversify the movements.

Moving the center of gravity quickly, especially horizontally, is a skill of jazz dance.

Let the head, shoulders, waist, buttocks, trunk and other parts of the body do independent movements.

An action that emphasizes angle and linearity.

Use rhythmic and complex segmented actions to show the rhythm of the action. For example, in an action, we put the remake on our heads or hands, and the actions of our hands and heads are cut out from our own actions during the action, not at the same time. That is to say, an action can be completed in one beat, but now we divide it into four beats and the action is also divided into four parts.

Multi-rhythm quickly expresses two or three rhythms simultaneously with the body.

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