Difference 1: Origin.
Jazz dance appeared in the mid-twentieth century in the fifties, by the black social dance, with jazz music and evolved down, it absorbed ballet, modern dance, street dance, Latin dance elements and techniques, to express the hot and spicy style.
Street dance is originated from the black people of the lower class, black people in the past have been at the bottom of the social class, life is hard, so they created the street dance this kind of dance to vent their inner feelings, dissatisfaction.
Difference 2: the gender of the dancer.
From the point of view of the gender of the dancers, in general, jazz dance is only women will practice the dance, this is because jazz dance requires a soft body, giving a unique female enchanting breath in it.
While street dance is usually gender-neutral and unisex, and men tend to be more handsome and confident than women.
Difference three: categorized?
The classification of jazz dance includes Latin JAZZ, Modern Jazz, Theatrical Jazz, Classical JAZZ, Ballet JAZZ and so on.
Street dance contains several major categories: now in China there are mainly poppin, hiphop, locking, breaking, house, newstyle, kurmp, regge and so on.
Although there is a difference, but in fact, now, these two types of dance has been fused with each other, street dance borrowed from the rhythm of jazz dance, the formation of HipHop jazz, and many big stage is slowly emerging.
Difference four: dance costumes.
Generally speaking, whether it is jazz dance or street dance, will wear a hat backwards, which is to increase the dominance.
Jazz dance will usually wear a black dress, more tight, quite high requirements for the body.
Street dance costumes are more loose, will be larger than the usual clothing one to two numbers.
Difference five: technical characteristics.
Jazz and street dance have the same characteristics, requiring the movement of the explosive force, the coordination of the limbs is relatively good, the requirements of the dance difficulty skills are also very high, they are on the head, shoulders, hips, and other parts of the training function is very large, are the training of small muscle groups of the movement.
But the original jazz is characterized by a kind of emotional performance, is a kind of stage art for entertaining others, jazz dance is a kind of line sense, the movement is stretching, the body's center of gravity is upward;
But the early street dance is purely catharsis of the emotions of the dancers, is a kind of existence in the life of the art of entertaining oneself, street dance is a kind of dynamic rhythm, the movement is twisted, the body's center of gravity is downward. The center of gravity of the body is downward.
The two kinds of dance in the dance, the limbs made by the action are more exaggerated than other dances, attraction, are to the whole body of the energy to bring the feeling of enthusiasm.
ReferencesBaidu Encyclopedia-Jazz Dance
Baidu Encyclopedia-Street Dance