It is possible to practice at home, but it is more advisable to practice in a studio.
Jazz dance, like modern dance and ballet, is physically demanding, which makes warming up before practicing all the more important. Warm-up exercises can also benefit jazz dancers both psychologically and physiologically. From a physiological standpoint, the effects of warm-up exercises include:
Increasing the speed and strength of muscle contraction, improving muscle coordination, and preventing or minimizing injuries to muscles, tendons, and ligaments; in particular, for jazz dancers, the back, chest, and abdominal areas are used quite frequently, so more attention should be paid to them when doing warm-up exercises. Psychologically, it allows the learner to have the psychology of preparing to start the movement with the prelude of cultivating the emotion, so that the student can be more concentrated and feel the urge to learn.
Jazz dance warm-ups are rhythmic and usually last 20 -- 30 minutes. Because jazz classes involve tiptoeing, rapid kicks, spins, jumps, and sustained or rapid contractions of the abdominal area.
So the warm-up exercises often include ballet squats and tiptoe movements to help prepare the feet and leg muscles, in addition to the need for upper body limbs and trunk of independent and joint movements to achieve the effect of whole-body warmth and muscle flexibility.
Expanded Information:
With the birth of jazz in 1880, with the birth of the word; and because jazz in the music of the world, with the birth of the word; and because jazz in the music of the world, with the birth of the word. With the spread of the media, jazz dance widely circulated Wei, letter outflow jazz dance began to be jazz, and finally is dance, as long as the synthesis can be, jazz dance temperament and movement synthesized.
The essence of jazz dance movement is a free and pure expression, directly to the inner feelings with the body upside down, shaking, twisting expression. Just like when we hear our favorite music, we can naturally show our feelings from the inside, and our bodies can't help but move with the rhythm of the music, such as snapping our fingers, swinging our heads and feet, sometimes excitedly and fiercely, and sometimes slowly and softly, dissolving into the music.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia_Jazz Dance