Early jazz classes focus on building body and spatial awareness while learning steps as well as some fun games. As classes get older and more complex, dancers work on gaining more diffcult steps and combinations.
Jazz is a modern dance style loosely based on ballet. Classes dance to fun music that you hear on the Top 40 and are based around barre work, centre work, stretches and combinations.
Early jazz classes focus on building body and spatial awareness while learning steps as well as some fun games. As classes get older and more complex, dancers work on gaining more diffcult steps and combinations.
Other styles that are related to jazz such as broadway, lyrical, hip hop and latin are introduced. Combinations increase in diffculty and variety of solo, duo or group.
Exams are offered from age 5 and are a good way to measure progress and have a goal to work towards.
Expressions Dance Company is committed to producing dancers who are versatile, well educated in both technique and expression, and who are strong, authentic young people. We believe every young dancer has the ability to increase their physical, emotional and intellectual wellbeing through dance.
Our aim is to provide an environment which balances the demands of training with creativity and care, while allowing for individual growth and expression. We are committed to being a friendly, family orientated studio with quality tutors who care about the dancer’s individual needs.
We aim to nurture young people through dance – to guide students to develop into well-balanced human beings, with a strong ethical sense – well fed in body, mind and spirit.
The Chilton Dance Centre training in Modern Jazz is based on the New Zealand Association of Modern Dance (NZAMD) syllabus.
Our American Jazz classes run following the NZAMD Jazz syllabus and teach the basic fundamentals of Jazz while encouraging our students to explore their own sense of style!
This class is aimed at professional, semi-professional and high advanced level students.
Traditionally an extension of ballet, jazz used to be known as “modern ballet”.
From age five, this syllabus progresses to teach dancers a wide variety of jazz styles to popular music.
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