PE 185JC Dance-Jazz, Advanced

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

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

Intermediate

Write out all eight-count combinations.
Correctly perform movements of terminology.
Use counts for steps, direction, and use of arms and legs.
Name and assume eight body positions.

Advanced

Create a routine using jazz dance movements.
Correctly perform terminology movements.
Write and assume all eight count combinations.
Create and present a routine with concepts of space, levels, time, and energy.
Identify and perform tour jeté, hitch kicks, Fouetté, En Tournant, cabriolé, piqué, coupe, fan kick, and attitude.

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