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 the elements and techniques of ballet, modern dance, street dance, Latin dance, to express the hot and spicy style.
Street dance, which originated in the Bronx, a lower-class black community in New York City in the 1970s, is a kind of movement for black Americans to vent their emotions, which is interpreted as "street culture".
2. Classification.
The classification of jazz dance includes Latin JAZZ, Modern Jazz, Theatrical Jazz, Classical JAZZ, Ballet JAZZ and so on.
Street dance contains several categories: now in the country are mainly poppin, hiphop, locking, breaking, house, newstyle, kurmp, regge and so on.
3, technical characteristics.
The original jazz is characterized by a kind of emotional performance, is a kind of stage art used to entertain others, jazz dance is a kind of line sense, the action is stretching, the center of gravity of the body is up.
Early street dance is purely to vent the emotions of the dancers, is a kind of art that exists in the life of the entertainment of the self, street dance is a kind of dynamic rhythm, movement is twisted, the body's center of gravity is downward.
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