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PE 185JA Dance-Jazz, Beginning


Lab Hours: 3
Credits: 1

Covers basic warm-ups to develop flexibility and isolations. Begins with terminology and movement and builds to combinations. Emphasizes technique, alignment, strength, coordination, and contemporary jazz dance with varying levels of difficulty.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Beginning

  1. Perform basic jazz steps: Pas de boureé, jazz square, grapevine, jazz slides, Grande jeté, ball change, chassé, and port de bras.
  2. Identify jazz movement with correct terminology.
  3. Execute turns: chainé, jazz turns, and pivot turns, and pirouettes.
  4. Present a routine.


Content Outline
  • Basic Jazz Terminology 
  • Basic Jazz Steps in Isolation and in Combinations 
  • Choreography and Performance of Dance Routines in Group 
  • Coordination of Music with Movement