Dance

What is jazz, modern, jazz modern

Jazz dance is the oldest type of choreography on the list. As you can guess it is danced under the jazz music or music with such motifs. Jazz dance emerged later than the music in this style, in order to be more comfortable to move in jazz invented special shoes, which were called – jazz shoes, both male and female version of the shoes between themselves is quite similar, since jazz often enough found tapping, flicks, step, the shoes has a small wide heel. Once this dance could be found in public eating places with live jazz music, where everyone could dance jazz for fun, at that time, the dance had no name, only later he was given a broad meaning and made to the styles and varieties of choreography. Its origin, oddly enough, jazz comes from Africa. Of course, today it is difficult to recognize in the current jazz the old original jazz, by the way back then jazz was performed in pairs, but this trend has not continued, today jazz is performed solo or in groups, but not in pairs.

Art Nouveau dance – is a type of choreography that arose due to the classic choreography, the whole base of the style of modern dance consists of ballet base. Art Nouveau style has clear lines of hands and feet, all the classical positions are performed in the same way as in ballet, only in some moments there are parallel and not rotated lines. As for the form of clothing and costumes, shoes in which dance modern dance, there is no certain obligations, modern loves ease and simplicity, as much as possible close to nature, so most often dancing modern barefoot or half-cheeked that cover only toes .

Jazz Art Nouveau, as you might guess is a combination of two styles – jazz and modern, so it came later, the performance of this genre of dance is almost no different from modern, there is much less jazz in it.

Dance school, which has a modern, must have a part of the classical performance lessons, and ideally it would be for the class had a separate lesson, because only then the dancer can perform perfectly modern, when he knows the basic rules of classical ballet.

What is the basis of jazz modern
In order for this style of choreography to look top notch, dancers must have full command of their bodies, have good stretching, plasticity, jumping and coordination. Although jazz modern and was born out of ballet, but it belongs to the modern choreography, so the improvisation also has a place, as in all other contemporary street dance. In addition to this began its existence and the so-called jazz ballets or jazz modern ballets that have become in a fairly short time is not less popular than the classical ballets that exist for several centuries.