Summary: Learn techniques for a chasse with your arms in jazz dancing in this free Broadway dance video.
Ms. Johnson received a BFA from Howard University School of Fine Arts, in Washington, DC, with additional training at the Broadway Dance Center and the Alvin Ailey Dance Center among...read more
"Now with the Chasse Step we're going to coordinate it and stylize it with some arms. We're going to take some basic jazz hands, place them down center. We're going to take the arms out to second, three and four. And one, two, making sure the elbows are out, down. A one, two, and three and four. Again, five, six. Now adding the feet, we move, plie, one, two, three and four and five, six. Traveling forward, Chasse forward two, three and four and five, six. Now take it to the back, Chasse back, one, two, three and four and five, six. Now we're going to take it sideways. And Chasse two and three and four, five, six, seven and change. Chasse, two, three and four, and five, six and change. And oh one, two, three and four, side, five, six. Last time, and one, two, three and four, and five, six, seven and eight."