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Jazz Dance

By: Laasya, Zoha, Charvi, Selena, and Brienna

Purpose

Frequent Movements

- Jazz dance leads the way to many other styles

- Jazz dancers must have a good posture

- It is done for entertainment, competition, and to express yourself

- Jazz usually involves many sharp jumps and turns

Quality Of Movements

Beliefs And Customs

- To honor important periods of life like birth, marriage, and death, the natives in Africa used to perform jazz dance.

- Dancers that do use props to perform jazz, use them to add emphasis to their dance, emotions or if they are telling a story through the dance, to help them show or tell the story with the help of their body language and props.

- When the black slaves did the dance, they showed their interpretation of life and many other emotions.

- Jazz dance is very graceful, energetic, sharp , and very rhythmic.

Performance

- Dancers feel like they can creatively express themselves

- Audience try to interpret the message and what is being shown to them

What Is Jazz

Symbolism

Costumes

- Jazz dancers traditionally wore bright and flashy costumes

- Jazz dance represents African American culture and what black slaves have been through

Jazz is a type of dance and music that has originated from black American culture.

- Now that jazz has developed, you can basically wear anything for your outfit

What Is Jazz

- Jazz was found and made in the late 1800s by African-American composers in New Orleans, Louisiana

- This genre wasn’t as popular during this time compared to the 1920’s, when it was called the "Jazz Age"

- There were many illicit clubs that were opened all over the US that advertised jazz music, dance, and also contained alcohol

Instruments

-Dancers that do use props to perform jazz, use them to add emphasis to their dance, emotions or if they are telling a story through the dance, to help them show or tell the story with the help of their body language and props.

- Some instruments include the trumpet, bass guitar, bass clarinet, clarinet, saxophone, trombone, double bass and drums.

Geography And Climate

- New Orleans is a city in the state of Louisiana, located near the Mississippi River, neighboring the Gulf of Mexico.

- The landforms found here include, rivers, lakes, swamps, marshes and bayous.

- Here, fishing industry thrives and soil in New Orleans is rich and fertile, suitable for growing crops

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