Introduction to the main characteristics of jazz dance

The main characteristics of jazz dance are hip sending, waist twisting and wavy body twisting.

In jazz dance, the body should contain three elements: soul, sexiness and balance: head, neck, shoulders, upper limbs and 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 a variety of customs. A good jazz dancer should not only have correct basic dance steps, but also contain three elements in his body: soul, sexiness and balance.

There is no special dress code for practicing jazz dance. The key is to be comfortable. It is suggested to wear close-fitting clothes, which will make dancing more aesthetic.

With the music, your legs move forward or backward, bend your knees, push your hips to one side, pay attention to the movements of your hands and hips, and keep your body balanced and beautiful. Kick, kick, kick-kick combination

Gestures should be coordinated. In addition to hand movements, leg movements are also important. Between advance and retreat, before kicking and after lifting, jumping will make a sexy look. Let's shake the hip combination

The main characteristics of jazz dance are hip sending, waist twisting and wavy body twisting. With the strong music rhythm, twist your hips and twist your body, releasing elegance between advance and retreat.

Teaching characteristics of jazz dance

1, using technical terms (foreign languages) for teaching. Any dance has its own culture, which is reflected in the name, characteristics, style and music of dance movements. Jazz dance comes from the United States, and most of the movements are named in English and French (ballet terminology). Teaching with technical terms (foreign languages) can make students feel their culture from the perspective of language and help them understand the connotation of jazz dance more deeply. After a long time, all kinds of influences and actions will taste purer.

2. The basic training of jazz is dancing. Thirty minutes before jazz class, we all have basic skills training. Basic training is usually boring. In order to improve students' interest and enrich their expressive force, I use complete and diverse music for more performing training.

3. Emphasize style training. Variety of styles is a major feature of jazz dance. In these two years' training, we have learned Disco (disco), Funk (funk), latino (Latin style), modern (ballet style) and so on, so that students can fully understand and master jazz dance and their expressive force can be better improved.

4. Emphasize the rhythm. Jazz dance especially emphasizes the change of rhythm, especially the movements of those small joints. The change of rhythm is a clever mutation. In order to improve the quality of rhythm training, I have used tap dancing training and listening training. In addition, listening training is sometimes used to rest and restore physical strength.

5. A relaxed classroom atmosphere. Jazz dance has a slogan "just for fun." (Laughter) African blacks suffered from the slave trade for about 300 years, which led them to be fired in the United States and around the world and lead a miserable life. In the new environment and life, they have not forgotten their music and dance, nor have they lost their optimistic attitude towards life. Fun. It can also be said that it is a feature of jazz dance. In the relaxed and interesting learning process, we also appreciate its entertainment.

6. Heuristic education. I don't advocate that children always learn simply by imitation. Although children's imitation ability is far better than that of adults, they should also be trained in their thinking ability and inspired to think consciously. Every child is smart, and they have the ability to dance better through their own understanding. The specific method will be discussed next time.

Charming jazz dance makes your body dance.

Jazz dance is a kind of dance full of vitality and creativity. Dancing freely with dynamic and rhythmic music can fully release people's body and mind. From Moulin Rouge to Chicago, Broadway musicals shine brilliantly in the film industry, and the unique charm of jazz dance should be remembered. Jazz dance is actually an extension of African dance, which was brought to America by slaves. Black people absorbed tap dancing skills, replaced the original drums with the rhythm of body twisting, and gradually evolved into a popular dance in the United States. The new jazz dance combines the dance steps of the older generation with the new dance steps popular in later generations, and absorbs elements such as ballet, modern dance, performance dance, theater dance, ballroom dance, black dance and Indian folk dance. Today's jazz dance has great inclusiveness and plasticity, and can absorb the characteristics of the most popular music and dance at any time. Because of this, jazz dance is very entertaining and accepted by the public.

The word Jazz was originally a dance music, and it was not until 1900 that the musical term jazz was used. Because jazz has always been lively in performance, there will be noisy, manic and lively explanations. The essence of jazz dance is a kind of free and simple expression, which directly expresses inner feelings with body movements such as jumping, shaking and twisting. Just like when we hear our favorite music, we naturally show our heartfelt feelings, and our bodies can't help dancing with the rhythm of the music, such as snapping our fingers and swinging our first foot, sometimes excited and intense, and sometimes slowly and flexibly dissolving into the music.

Jazz dance is a fast and dynamic rhythmic dance, and its performance is mainly reflected in action and melody. The purpose of jazz dance is not only to entertain others, but also to entertain yourself. Therefore, its performance is not melodramatic at all, and everyone can fully show themselves. The cheerful atmosphere and spirit of dancing are very infectious.

Compared with other sports, the amount of jazz dance is not very large, and more attention is paid to the fun of the sports process. Jazz dance is a kind of dance that pursues pleasure, liveliness and vividness. Compared with ordinary sculpture aerobics, it is characterized by free dancing, paying attention to randomness, and completely releasing body and mind as one pleases.

Nowadays, many women are not satisfied with simply shaping their bodies, and they pay more attention to improving their personal temperament. Coach Joy said that unlike many other aerobic fitness dances, the jazz dance they teach has a strong artistic sense, mainly to exercise personal expression and pay attention to cultivating a feeling and a posture. Moreover, coordination is very important in jazz dance. In addition to the coordination of hands and feet, there is also the coordination of head, trunk and limbs. After learning jazz dance, every gesture will be more coordinated, advance and retreat will become more fashionable and charming, which can greatly enhance personal social charm. No wonder the project was favored by many white-collar workers, especially management women, as soon as it was launched.

Although a successful jazz dancer must master certain skills, almost everyone can master its basic dance steps, and jazz dance has a broad performance space. Personal color and unique style are the most striking places when dancing.

There is no special dress code for practicing jazz dance. Similar to ordinary aerobics, the key is to be comfortable. It is recommended to wear close-fitting clothes, so that dancing is more aesthetic.

There are many popular music suitable as accompaniment of jazz dance, among which paula abdul, Madonna, janet jackson and Britney Spears are outstanding dancers.

Elements and characteristics of jazz dance

1, bend your knees to make your body 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.

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 express two or three rhythms with the body at the same time.

Street jazz

As early as 1970s, a novel action was called Popping &；; Locking has occurred. This mainly includes quickly and forcefully protruding and locking the head, shoulders, arms, buttocks and other parts. There used to be a dance group called Lockers in Los Angeles, USA. They are the best performers of this dance. They performed this new dance style on TV programs, and their clothes were exaggerated like clowns. Although this dance group was only popular for a short time, the dance style at that time evolved into break dance in the late 1970s and hip-hop in the 1990s.

Break dancing is a free and open dance mode, and its main movements include: electric boogie is like electric current passing through the body, local retraction (poppin suddenly and violently moves local body parts, somewhat like sudden muscle pulling animals) and thunderbolt rotation (breakin looks like gymnastics, sometimes supported by hands, but also supported by arms, back, knees and even head). This dance originated in the black slums of new york in 1970s. It is actually a channel for street teenagers to challenge and communicate with each other. Whoever can do the most difficult rotation and dance the best will be recognized by his peers. The rise of electronic music and the hobby of disc jockeys in erasing vinyl records are also closely related to the prosperity of break dancing. With the sudden change of music, dancers make all kinds of freeze-frames and unexpected special movements under the control of the music program host.

In the late 1980s, break dancing began to be ignored and replaced by Hip Hop, which also reflected the street culture of teenagers in the 1990s. The rise of almost every dance is closely related to the accompanying music, and Hip Hop is no exception. In addition to its unique music (Rap rap music), it also has its unique clothing (wide pants, exaggerated T-shirts, and baseball caps worn upside down) and unique vocabulary. Hip Hop has something to do with the craze of professional basketball in the United States, because many rappers also love to wear NBA jerseys, so even dancers follow this trend of dressing up. Because jazz dance is a dance that keeps up with the trend, the influence of pop culture on jazz dance is obvious.

The action root of street jazz dance is also African action style, but it does not use the typical jazz swing beat. In addition, the action of street jazz dance itself is not arranged for stage performance, so it will abandon the tradition of paying attention to skill and beauty in typical jazz dance and pay attention to the interpretation of music and lyrics instead. Comparatively speaking, the movements of hip-hop jazz dance are not so complicated in music rhythm.

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