Jazz is a dance style that does not require special knowledge, skills, preliminary physical training, stretching from the dancer. The main thing is to feel the rhythm, listen to your body and move the way you want, performing jumps, steps, throws. according to your inner desires.
Instructions
Step 1
To start practicing jazz dance, it is necessary to warm up the body so that in a burst of emotions and hot performance of elements you do not get stretching or dislocation. Get up and turn on any music, warm up the neck muscles by turning your head, develop the shoulder joint with swinging movements of the hands. Bend your body to the sides, stretch your fingers to the foot without bending your knees. A little stretching, flexibility exercises will allow you to move in the dance more freely and boldly. Swing your legs.
Step 2
Play jazz music and listen to it. Try to understand her emotional background, mood, speed, rhythm. Close your eyes and feel your desires - what movements you want to do to this music. First, perform a simple body twitch in rhythm.
Step 3
When you are sure that you can feel the rhythm and want to move on to more complex characteristic body movements - do it. Add to the simple rhythmic swaying of the body the movements of the hands, watch the consistency of the dance. Don't stand still - start moving around. For jazz, it is not jerk movements with the legs that are characteristic, but step ones. Follow the dance pattern. Try to repeat the movements in time: for one or two one element, for three or four - another, for five or six - again the first, and so on. Squat, tilt your body, move freely in space.
Step 4
More complex elements of jazz dance will be head movements and jumping in space. This has been done well more than once. Try to stand up straight, spread your arms to the sides and try to move your neck left and right, moving your head relative to your shoulders - with this workout you can gradually learn more complex head movements. Match the dance of all parts of the body. You can also try the characteristic jazz element - the movement of one part of the body while the rest freeze. Jump, do a split in the air if space and your abilities allow, have fun with your movements, express your mood in dance - this way you will learn to dance in the jazz style, as your soul requires.
