1. Jazz dance is a dance brought to the United States by African slaves, so its dance is as primitive, enthusiastic and unrestrained as the African character. After jazz dance was introduced to the United States, it absorbed the elements and skills of ballet, modern dance, street dance and Latin dance. What it wants to express is the burning amorous feelings, hip-sending, waist twisting and body twisting in waves, all of which reveal your charm and sexiness.

You can go to the gym to learn jazz dance if you can. Those are improved "jazz aerobics". Generally, the coach will turn the soothing pop and traditional jazz music into aerobics music with strong rhythm. Jazz at this time is stronger, more energetic and more rhythmic than rock jazz in the ballroom, which makes you dance more happily and passionately.

Basic essentials of action: with the music, step forward or backward with your legs, bend your knees, push your hips to one side, pay attention to hand movements and hip twisting movements, and keep your body balanced and beautiful.

Kick, kick, kick combination jazz dance should be coordinated. In addition to hand movements, leg movements are also important.

Swing together-the combination of hip twisting, hip twisting and wavy body twisting is the main feature of jazz dance. With the strong music rhythm, twist your hips and body, and release your passion and elegance between advance and retreat.

Maybe your personality is introverted and subtle, so it is very important to grasp the "open mind" when dancing jazz. You know, being sexy is not a sin, but a compliment to you.

The body has three elements: soul, sexiness and balance: head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs, trunk flexion and extension, rotation, circle and swing. Literally, these words have no sense of beauty, but if their movements are connected as smoothly as running water, jazz dance will make you have various customs. Therefore, a good jazz dancer should not only have correct basic dance steps, but also have soul, sexiness and balance in her body.

Jazz dance is a kind of folk dance. You can add many elements into it at will, such as hats, crutches and chairs, which can be props of jazz dance, but you should also pay attention to your song style, otherwise it will have the opposite effect.

Jazz dance belongs to aerobic exercise. According to the suggestion of American Sports Medicine Association, dancing jazz for 30-50 minutes 3-5 times a week will shape the devil's figure. According to the data, in the process of jazz dance exercise, with the extension of time, the energy supply ratio of fat is also increasing. If you persist, you can achieve the exercise effect of thin abdomen and thin legs. This is a surprise. Jazz dancing in the gym is stronger, so it needs better physical strength and endurance. Before learning jazz dance in the gym, it is best to do a set of physical tests: cardiopulmonary endurance: the interval between each group of jazz dances is not long, and the rest time between the previous group and the next group is very short, so it is difficult for people with poor cardiopulmonary endurance to keep up with the movements. Fast strength and muscular endurance: Jazz dance has many quick and instantaneous movements, so basic muscular strength is necessary. In addition, jazz dance often needs to practice the same movement many times, so it also has high requirements for muscle endurance, especially the endurance of lower limb muscles, otherwise it will easily lead to muscle damage of lower knee, ankle joint and hip joint.

Flexibility: Because jazz dance requires the body to twist like waves, the flexibility of the body must be good.

Coordination: In jazz dance, different parts of the body dance at different rhythms at the same time, so the coordination ability of dancers is not a small test.

Balance force: In jazz dance, the ability of dynamic balance is often more widely used than static balance force, because when the body twists rapidly, the center of gravity must be obviously shifted, and it is necessary to skillfully position the body with the help of eyes to assist balance.

Jazz dance knowledge: Jazz dance practice is based on the original jazz dance.

Bending up and down

Action: legs are shoulder width apart, hands and fingers are open, fingertips exert force, and arms extend to the head; Turn your upper body to the right, put your left hand on your right abdomen, and put your right hand behind your waist; Do the same thing in the opposite direction.

Tip: There are no special requirements for practicing jazz dancing. It's similar to ordinary aerobics. The key is to be comfortable. It is recommended to wear close-fitting clothes, which will be more aesthetic when jumping.

forward lunge

Action: stand on tiptoe and turn your hands around your head; The center of gravity of the body is on the right leg, the left leg points to the side, the head is twisted to the right, the left hand is straight to the side, and the right hand is bent on the chest; Do the same thing in the opposite direction.

Tips: The basic dance steps of jazz gymnastics are easy to master, and the performance space is very wide. Personal color and unique style are the most striking places when dancing.

wave

Action: Feet are shoulder width apart, and the waist is pushed from the head to the side of the body.

Tip: Jazz dance is based on the original jazz dance and basic gymnastics movements, which improves the speed and intensity of the movement.

kick

Action: Cross your legs, with your right leg in front, your left leg behind, your right hand straight at the shoulder, and your left hand straight at the shoulder; Lift your left leg and kick it to your side. Grab your ankle with your left hand.

Tips: This exercise can exercise the upper and lower body, with a large amount of exercise, which has a certain effect on weight loss.

keep balance

Action: bend your knees with your left leg, straighten your right leg in front of your left leg, point your toes on the ground, and stretch your arms asymmetrically back and forth; Move your right leg to straighten your left leg, with your toes pointing to the ground, and exchange postures with your arms, with your right hand facing your left leg; Take the left leg as the axis and turn the right leg with the strength of both arms; Go back to the original place and repeat the action in the opposite direction.

Tip: A lot of pop music is suitable as accompaniment for jazz shaping practice. Outstanding jazz dancers in pop music include Madonna, janet jackson and britney spears.

Hip joint movement

Action: separate your legs, put your weight on your right leg, bend your knees with your toes on the ground, put your hands in the natural position, and push your hips to the left as far as possible; Spread your arms up and down to your sides and stretch your chest and ribs as much as possible.

Tip: This action exercises the chest and ribs.

Jazz dance knowledge: emphasizing angle and linear movement

1. Make your body center of gravity closer to the ground with bent knees. 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. 2. Move the center of gravity quickly, especially in the horizontal posture. ...

2. Moving the center of gravity quickly, especially the posture of moving horizontally, is the performance of jazz dancing skills.

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

4. Emphasize angle and linear motion.

5. A segmentation method that uses rhythmic and complex segmentation actions to express the rhythm in 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.

6. Multi-rhythm quickly expresses two or more rhythms with the body at the same time.

The dance step terminology of jazz dance

Arabic style

Swallowing balance: one leg supports the body weight, and the supporting leg can be everted or not; Knees can be bent or straight. The free leg is fully extended, and then raised as high as possible in a balanced posture.

attitude

Leg bending balance: one leg supports the body weight, and the supporting leg can rotate outward or not; Knees can be bent or straight. The free leg is bent forward and lifted sideways or backward (the free leg may or may not be turned outwards).

Batman (ballet basic practice movement, refers to the uniform movement of the action legs)

Swing leg: the knee joint of the swing leg is locked, swinging upward from the hip joint, and then swinging back to the ground. Technical support legs can be bent or straight, and feet can be extended or bent. Straight knees and straight legs can swing forward, in two directions or backward.

Chasse / Sashay

Sliding step: one foot steps horizontally, the other foot immediately steps next to the first foot, and the first foot steps sideways again. Actions can also be done forward or backward.

Corner & side direction

Direction of corners and edges:

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Bend your knees into a semi-squat: When bending your knees, your feet and legs can keep balance and turn forward or outward (two postures).

Foot position

Foot position: one to five; One and two are commonly used.

Grandpley

Bend your knees into a squat: when one, four or five people do this, their heels leave the ground, and when two people do this, their heels remain on the ground.

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One-legged jump: Take off and land with the same foot.

Hook kick

Quick pull kick: it is a kicking action completed in the air. Take off on one foot, swing the other leg, bend the knee upward and pull the whole body upward, and then kick the take-off leg forward and upward quickly; When kicking, keep your feet straight, keep your feet straight.

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Independent movement: To move or highlight a part of the body independently.

Jazz split

Jazz split: the front legs are straight, sliding to the ground, and the rear legs are everted and flexed. It is customary to buffer by hand.

Jazz square

Jazz Step: Make a square in four steps. Example: the right foot crosses the front side of the left foot, the left foot retreats, the right foot crosses into two positions, and the left foot moves forward.

Jazz ramble

Jazz step: step in a half-knee position, keep your feet balanced and move forward. When doing this, the head and trunk should be extended upward, as far away from the half-bent leg as possible.

Small jump

Jump: a jump in which one foot takes off, the other foot touches the ground first, the center of gravity shifts from one foot to the other, and the legs are separated in the air. Jumping can be forward, backward or sideways. The back legs can be more curved.

jump

Jump: take off with both feet and land with both feet.

overall arrangement

Alignment with the central axis: Body parts directly connected with the spine (i.e. head, ribs and intervertebral disc bones) are placed in alignment with the spine. The action can be forward, backward or sideways.

Lateral turn

Rotate outward: rotate on one leg. If you turn right, your left foot is the support leg; If you turn left, your right foot is the support leg.

Parallel position

Parallel posture: the extension lines of two body parts are parallel. Take feet and legs for example. When standing with legs apart, when both feet and knees are pointing forward, a parallel posture is formed.

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One-leg knee lifting: the posture in which the movable leg lifts the knee along the inner edge of the support leg until the extended toes are spliced on the inner side of the support leg knee.

Percussive

Describe the action is strong and fast.

Toe rotation

One-leg rotation: one leg rotates in situ, the movable leg bends its knees generally, and the extended toes are spliced on the inner side of the supporting leg.

kneel

Flexion means: in French, any flexion of the body is also called plié. In dance, it often refers to the action of bending the knees.

Stripping position

An important position in jazz dance. Bend your knees and lift your heels off the ground. The control of movements should come from the thigh muscles.

Release; Emissions; issue

Relaxation: Relaxing an originally tense body part, or especially stretching a certain body part.

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Lift heel or lift heel: Knees can bend and jump straight.

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Semi-circle leg swing: the leg swing action in which the movable leg is completely straight, the toes touch the ground in front, and a semi-circle is drawn along the ground to move backward, or from the back to the front.

Seat rotation

Sitting rotation: when sitting, rotate with hips as fulcrum and axis. It often starts with pushing the ground by hand.

spirality

Spiral: The body and trunk make a spiral twist.

crack open

Word horse/word division: the action of sitting on the ground and spreading your legs back and forth or left and right.

lasting

Continuation in the same action: to prolong an action and give it a sense of continuity.

Desktop position

Desktop posture: the upper body bends forward from the hip joint, and the head, neck and whole back stretch in a straight line. Knees can bend and straighten, so it is difficult to pose on the table when bending knees.

Tendu

(Wipe the floor) Toe-Toe: Push out the soles of your feet by wiping the floor, arch your instep outward, and raise your heels as high as possible, only your toes are still on the ground. This action can be carried out in all directions.

Three-step turn (side)

Three-step turn: complete the 360 turn in three steps (left-right-left or right-left-right).

Torsion of trunk

Torsion of the torso: The pelvis remains facing in one direction, while the upper body, including the chest, shoulders and head, turns in the other direction.

Two-step turn

Two-step turn: complete 360 turn (left or right) in two steps.

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Varus/valgus: refers to the feet, knees and buttocks turning inward into a "straight foot".

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Eversion/Eversion ("open position"): refers to the outward rotation of the feet, knees and hip joints, so that the toes are angled. If you can be extremely everted, you can arrange your feet in a straight line. )

V-posture

V-posture: sit on your hips, tighten the abdominal muscles and the muscles in front of your thighs, and lift your legs off the ground. Legs together, arms raised in a V-shape. Keep your back straight and your torso aligned forward.

Seven classic movements in jazz dance teaching

Action 1

Knee joints on both sides alternately twist forward, the body should be relaxed, the upper body swings in the opposite direction, and the arms can naturally swing out of various shapes.

Action 2

Straighten your right leg, push your hips, send the other knee joint outward, waist up and chest out, straighten your right arm, put your head and neck against your arm, and press your left arm down on your wrist. Your body can rotate alternately on both sides or turn around 360 degrees to repeat actions according to the rhythm of music.

Action 3

Feet together, knees slightly bent, legs tightened, hips to the right, at the same time feel the strength on both sides of the chest and waist, arms around, fingers apart, try to stretch to the side and back, and the body is S-shaped.

Action 4

The legs are slightly flexed, the right palm points to the ground, the center of gravity of the left leg, abdomen and waist coccyx is pushed down, the shoulders sink, the forearm is retracted, and the upper body is twisted to the left and rear as far as possible.

Action 5

Legs apart, shoulder width apart, knees bent, one arm on the forehead, the other arm tightened behind the back, fists outward, head slightly tilted, dancing rhythmically. Be careful not to lean back too much to prevent cervical spine injury.

Action 6

Spread your legs beyond shoulder width, bend your knees, relax your waist and shoulders, lift your forearms, clench your empty fists, relax your head, and swing freely with the rhythm of music.

Action 7

Spread your legs apart, stretch them slightly wider than your shoulders, bend over and lift your hips, lean forward to the maximum, naturally cross your hands and fingers apart, raise your head and provoke your body to open slowly, and at the same time, control your middle waist with force. This action has a good weight loss effect on the back and waist.

This is all the information I collected. I hope I can help you. I am a jazz teacher.