Choreography Concepts
Levels of Movement
Jazz Dance Vocabulary #1
Jazz Dance Vocabulary #2
Jazz Dance History
100
The peed of the movement.
What is tempo?
100
A pirouette
What is medium level?
100
A movement of one body part at a time.
What is isolation?
100
The body stays in place while one leg starts inward and kicks all the way around to its original position.
What is a fan kick?
100
Jazz dance originated in this part of the world.
What is United States?
200
Choreography that has a visual balance - similar steps performed on opposite sides.
What is symmetry?
200
A jazz split.
What is low level?
200
A split to the floor in which the front leg is extended straight and the back leg bends at an angle.
What is a jazz split?
200
1. Step forward on the right or left foot 2. Cross the other foot over the first foot 3. Step back with the first foot 4. Step to the side with the second foot.
What is a jazz square?
200
Jazz dance was influenced by this genre of music?
What is jazz music?
300
A group of dancers performing the exact same movement.
What is unison?
300
A battement
What is medium level?
300
Three quick steps in a small circle in place.
What is triplet turn?
300
A very high jump, simulating splits in the air, only the front leg is bent so the foot is tucked under.
What is stag leap?
300
Notable distinctions of this jazz dance choreographer included the use of turned-in knees, sideways shuffling, rolled shoulders, and jazz hands.
Who is Bob Fosse?
400
The way in which a dancer travels through space.
What is direction?
400
A tours jete
What is high level?
400
The position is a deep arabesque with the free leg up in the sky and the chest towards the floor hitting the standing leg.
What is a pitch?
400
One leg is kicked up in the air, while the torso is leaned back into as dramatic an arch as possible. Head should be dropped back and arms should also be extended backward, almost able to touch the floor.
What is a lay-out?
400
Considered the Father of Jazz Dance Technique and The Father of Theater Dance, he began as a modern dancer. During the 1930's he was the first dancer to combine the jazz steps with aspects of modern dance and ethnic influences, creating artistic and technical jazz dance.
Who is Jack Cole?
500
A choreographic structure in which one movement phrase is repeated by 3 or more dancers or groups of dancers, starting in delayed intervals.
What is a cannon?
500
When one dancer performs a pirouette while another dancer performs a switch leg leap.
What is level opposition?
500
A turn towards the supporting leg while the opposite leg is in passe parallel.
What is inside pirouette?
500
A turn that is two turns in one. It starts with a chainé turn then without stopping, then the first leg goes to passé position and the other joins it in a jump before landing on the same foot that took off from the floor.
What is axle turn?
500
He emphasized strength from the start of his jazz class. He added his own style of wavelike movements that begin from the pelvis and roll through the chest and arms. His dance school started in the 1950's in the Chicago area and is world-renown.
Who is Gus Giordano?
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