What are the characteristics of modern jazz dance
Modern jazz dance contains the shadows and movement qualities of ballet and modern dance movements. In addition to the angular movements and bright body and torso movements typical of jazz, fluid and sustained movements are used to emphasize slender lines and curves. Downward wrist presses, stylish fushi and posture are equally important in stage jazz as in modern jazz. Modern Jazz dancers have a background in ballet training that allows them to comfortably combine one-legged turns and bent-legged balances with jazz walks and slides. Dancers are able to highly coordinate the head, shoulders, torso and hips of the accurate swing and twist, so that this style of jazz is very valuable to watch. NEW JAZZ is now we are generally jumping in the jazz, pose point is more, before may be with the dance, and then look for music, but the new wave of jazz is to have music, and then with to choreograph, like all kinds of music MTV. NEW JAZZ early in the United States in New York by the evolution of the ballet, but it is through the JANET JAKCSON's "IF" in the MTV, and only gradually let a person! The characteristics of NEW JAZZ can be said to be a kind of dance with JAZZ and HIP-HOP, but NEW JAZZ is not categorized as one of the disciplines of HIP-HOP. It is characterized by the extension of the body, and every movement of NEW JAZZ has a fixed angle and swing, when you make hand movements, there will be an infinite extension of the feeling, this feeling is like someone is pulling your hand.