Jazz Dancing

Jazz dance is a form of personal expression created and sustained through improvisation. It has a heritage that can be traced to its African origin through a period of American vernacular dance to today's theatrical dancing. It has certain defining characteristics, including improvisation, isolation, a centrifugal explosion of energy that radiates outward from the hips & center, and a propulsive rhythm that gives an often swinging, high-energy quality to the movement.

Jazz dance technique focuses on placement and alignment of the body, footwork, stretches, musicality, isolations, turning, jumping and other preparatory work necessary for establishment of a technical foundation. Different varieties of Jazz dance and well-known choreographer's works in areas like Musical Theatre, show-style, Broadway, funky-jazz, television & movie-styles are explored.