What are the basic movements of jazz dance
The practice of jazz dance to wear no special requirements, and general aerobics is almost the same, the key is to be comfortable. So, what are the basic movements of jazz dance? Here's a look!
The basic movements of jazz dance
1, the basic movements of jazz dance
1.1, with the music, legs forward or backward step, bend the knees, the crotch to the side, pay attention to the hand movement with the wringing of crotch action, in order to maintain the balance of the body and the sense of beauty. Kick, kick, kick---kick combination.
1.2, hands and feet to coordinate, in addition to hand movements to match the body's twisting, leg movements are very important. Between in and out, front and back kicks, and jumps will let the passion show. Swing together---twist the hips combination.
1.3, send crotch, twisting waist, the body is a wave-shaped twist is the main feature of jazz dance. With the strong rhythm of the music, twisting the hips, twisting the body, and releasing the gracefulness between in and out.
2, the dance characteristics of jazz dance
The essence of jazz dance movement is a free and pure expression, directly to the inner feelings of the body with the body of the upside down, shake, twist expression. Just like when we hear our favorite music, we can show our feelings naturally from the inside, and our body can't help but move with the rhythm of the music, such as snapping our fingers, swinging our heads and feet, and sometimes excitedly and fiercely, and sometimes slowly and softly, dissolving into the music.
Jazz dance is a kind of rapid and dynamic rhythmic dance, is a kind of outgoing dance, unlike classical ballet or modern dance performance of a kind of introverted dance.
Jazz dance is mainly the pursuit of happy, lively, angry dance. It is characterized by the freedom to dance, not like the traditional classical ballet must be limited to a form and comply with the inherent gestures, but and disco dance that completely self-enjoyment of the dance is different, it is still free in the existence of a present law.
3, jazz dance classification
3.1, tap dance
Tap dance can be said to be the originator of jazz dance. As early as in the mid-1800s, there were tap dances, which inherited the complexity and split rhythmic characteristics of African dances. In the 1920s and 1940s, the golden age of jazz dance, basically jazz dance is equivalent to tap dance, tap dance is jazz dance. Professional tap dancers often performed with large jazz ensembles during this time. Later, due to the change of trend and the development of jazz dance genre branch, tap is gradually seen as a dance other than jazz dance.
3.2 Stage Jazz
High hats and handballs were the most common props used in the early stages of stage jazz, but stage jazz wasn't limited to that. Stage jazz dance has a kind of showy style, with the cut. The jazz music accompaniment shows the swing quality. Stage jazz follows the evolution of Broadway cabaret.
3.3 Modern Jazz
Modern jazz includes ballet and modern dance movements and movement qualities. In addition to the typical jazz style of angular movements and bright body and torso movements, fluid and sustained movements are also used to emphasize the slender lines and curves. Downward wrist presses, stylized fushions and postures are equally important in stage jazz as in modern jazz.
Jazz Dance Learning Techniques
1, all head movements must be the largest within their reach. The head strength training must be thoroughly all your hair up, and the point to be clean and sharp, refreshing and not dragged.
2, arm training must be straight, fast, force! The arm muscles, including the small arm and fingers all tightened to maintain the strength of the arm, the body should also be tightened, I casually touch you to push you to keep the state of motionless. Fingers in any state must give the feeling of infinite extension of the state, proving that your fingers also follow the body tightened in place.
3, ligament training is also my own has been improving the link. A lot of students are better than me to do it Oh ~ attention to pressure when the legs must remain taut state of the body as much as possible to tighten their legs, the more soreness the more effective, arm stretching is the same. The same goes for the arms. You can do ligament stretching on the bed after you go back to the house, and it's very helpful for girls.
Children learn jazz dance benefits
1, enhance children's physical fitness, promote children's physical health.
Childhood is the beginning of the whole life, in this period of human body growth and development of the most rapid. Let the child participate in a planned, systematic dance training, can enhance physical fitness, increase body resistance, reduce the chance of disease.
2. Enlighten children's wisdom, stimulate the child's hidden ability.
Children's imagination, creativity, memory and other intellectual factors in the development of a variety of channels, dance training is undoubtedly one of the most effective. In children's dance, children's gait, gestures, movements than in daily life to exaggerate the deformation of some of the children in the dance performance can not be detached from the basic movements, but also their own choices, their own design of different ways of physical expression, can be positive, active, confident into the music and movement.
3, cultivate children's sentiment, develop a good character.
The development of children's emotions, aesthetics, will and other non-intellectual factors is the key to the healthy growth of children's mental health. In the melodious, standardized children's dance training, children can be in a lively, light atmosphere, with the body and mind to feel the image of the music, music and dance images to absorb the positive spiritual connotations contained in the subtle cultivation of children's sentiment, cultivate children's good aesthetic ability.
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