Jazz Dance is offered by Johannesburg Academy for Theatre Arts
Jazz Dance is offered by Johannesburg Academy for Theatre Arts
Whilst JATA aims to equip current and future practitioners of the theatre arts with all the necessary skills required of the professional “triple threat” performer, all our students experience the outstanding benefits of training in the arts – enhanced self-esteem and confidence, improved social skills as well as strengthened problem-solving and generative thinking abilities.
All our instructors are accredited teachers and/or industry professionals with unsurpassable knowledge and experience. This provides students not only with a strong technique as well as up-to-date access to developing trends, but also affords them a solid network should they be in, or choose to enter, the entertainment industry.
Jazz is athletic and sexy, it’s full of energy and grit, it’s sweaty and exhausting, from the sassiness of Fosse to the strength of A Chorus Line. A great jazz dancer owns their dancing with power, technique, confidence and style.
Jazz dance is a term used to describe the performance dance technique and style that emerged in America in the early twentieth century. Jazz dance began as an African American social dance that had roots in African slave dances.
Line dancing is practiced and learned in country-western dance bars, social clubs, dance clubs and ballrooms... Line dances have accompanied many popular music styles since the early 1970s including pop, swing, rock and roll, disco, Latin (salsa sualta), rhythm and blues and jazz.
A free expressive style of dancing with elements of contemporary, theatrical and jazz dance. Technique is still key to develop the use of the entire body in movements expressive of abstract ideas. A fun energising style of dance.
Jazz dance is comprised of many styles. It originated from the African Americans and then evolved on Broadway into the styles taught today. Jazz Dance was popularized by choreographers such as Bob Fossé in Chicago and Caberet. Jazz dance has also been influenced by other dance forms such as acro, ...
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