Dance Jazz

Jazz Dance is a mix of street and academic art, with its roots in traditional African-American vernacular dance and Modern Jazz Dance. Today, Jazz Dance is taught in various styles, including Contemporary Jazz, Lyrical Jazz, and Musical Theater Jazz. Based on modern and classical techniques, Jazz Dance classes also emphasize center control, execution of long lines, coordination and foundation. Depending on the teacher and the style of Jazz Dance, the music used in class varies between electronic, pop rock, jazz and instrumental.

Lyrical is a type of dance that arises from the mixture of various styles such as Jazz or Modern Jazz with Contemporary and also Ballet. Lyrical Dance tends to be organic and fluid in style, with splashes of drama. It’s used to tell stories, creating dancing ballads.

Broadway or Theatre Dance styles are jazz dance classes that incorporate stylized jazz dance steps (Fosse, Luigi, Robbins) and focus more on performance and musicality. The classes are dynamic, and the choreographies are more intense in terms of jumps, turns and combinations, as well as in expression.

Modern Jazz & Modern Dance technique teach the basic steps of ballet and modern dance, helping you jump, twist, suspend, stretch, contract, release, extend, fall and bounce, finding the connection between movements and building a solid foundation.

Tap Dance is an American style of dance in which the feet move rhythmically while performing a musical tap.

Contemporary Jazz combines the technique of Jazz Dance with the movement quality of Contemporary Dance. It is not pure contemporary dance, but a hybrid discipline that demands technical control, musicality, stage presence, and body image.
In class, we work on intense choreographic sequences, movement phrases with dynamic contrasts, weight shifts, floor work, core control, and emotional expression, always with a solid foundation and interpretive focus.