Attire for Jazz Dancing

Series Summary

Jazz dancing has evolved from two different eras in American history. The earliest forms of the dance came from an African American dance between 1800 and 1900. Since then Broadway choreographers have taken it to new places. In the 50's when jazz was the main style of both dance and music tap dance was the style of dance most popular. As the era progressed new dances began to take form such as the Cakewalk, Charleston and Lindy Hop. Tap dance became more of it's own style in itself as modern jazz dancing began to evolve. It is considered a very difficult dance to attain mastery but with work, persistence and these videos you will be that much closer. In this free video series you will not only learn many of the basics for jazz dancing but how to put them all together. Our expert covers everything from the type of shoes that are best for training to how to isolate your head when performing a move. These hands on videos will walk you step by step through the fundamentals and show you how anyone can be a dancer, even you!!

Video Transcript

"I'm Kelly Anne and I will be demonstrating beginning jazz dancing for you. This is my friend and partner Darryl; he will be assisting. There are many different styles of contemporary jazz dancing, from classical, Broadway, old Hollywood Vegas style, street jazz. Almost any different style you can think of, jazz incorporates it. When you're beginning your class, you're going to want to know what to wear. Jazz pants that comfortable that are easy to move in and warm clothes. You'll definitely want to dress in layers. Bring warm clothes such as sweaters, sweat pants because you want the body to warm up quickly and to stay warm while you're exercising so that your muscles won't cramp and get injured, and it aides your flexibility. Especially after the class, you want to keep your muscles from getting too tight when you cool down. After practice, you're going to definitely want to wear some slippers because you can't wear your dance shoes out on the street because they'll get dirty and then they'll dirty up the dance studio. I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for watching. I'm Kelly Anne of 56dance.com with my friend Darryl. Special thank you to Expert Village and the Goddess store for letting us use the studio."