Jazz

Jazz

Jazz dance began as the popular dance moves of the early 1900’s. Most of the music that was played was Jazz and the steps just fit with the sounds. Jazz dance is an American tradition, it reflects to the speed of American’s and there life styles more then any other type of dance. One of the first persons to create a form of Jazz dance was Jack Cole know to be the father of Jazz(James Robey). Cole brought a low sense of gravity a used a deep pile giving jazz its power and explosion in the performance scene. Jazz has been transformed into many different braches of Jazz Performance, there’s the Standard Jazz with emphasis on the individual, second is musical theater Jazz , third Concert Jazz dance and the fourth is dance drill teams, cheerleading and gymnastics. Each of these bring a different style of dance to the performance but still using the same type of movements and concepts to