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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO JAZZ DANCE
A book dedicated to the art form of Jazz Dance, Jazz Music and Jazz Theatre Arts.
Written by Dollie Henry MBE & Paul Jenkins - Artistic Directors, Jazz Creatives and Educators of the UK's premier Jazz organisation - BOP Jazz Theatre Company aka BOP
Dollie & Paul as creative Jazz artists and educators, have provided a exciting and accessible Jazz Book for the 21st Century. The Essential Guide to Jazz Dance offers a practical and uncomplicated overview to the multi-layered history, practices and development of jazz dance as a creative and artistic dance form.
Jazz dance and its inherent music is recognized as one of the original and most potent art forms of the last two centuries. From its African roots to our present-day global dance community, the jazz idiom has afforded a cross-fertilization with all other artistic, cultural and social representations within the arts industry, providing an accessible dance platform for dancers, teachers and creatives to enjoy both recreationally and professionally.
Now you can read all about JAZZ and use it as a legitimate tool to research, discover and understand Jazz Dance not just as word but a creative and artistic form of expression.
Whats inside this well structured book:
208 colour and 17 black & white photos and 10 colour diagrams
The incredible history and lineage of jazz dance
Specifics of jazz aesthetic, steps and styles
An insightful and detailed breakdown of a practical jazz dance warm-up and technical exercises
Creative frameworks to support development of jazz dance expression and aesthetic
Performance and improvisation
Jazz music and musical interpretation
Choreographing and creating jazz works
Published by Crowood Press
ISBN: 9781785006357
PUBLISHED: 23/10/2019
PAGES: 192
BINDING: Paperback
SIZE: 246x189 mm
RRP: £20.00
The BOP Jazz Exercise Technique Program
The BOP Jazz Exercise Program - is a complete jazz exercise experience developed for the professional and student dancer, teacher and dance creative. However, you do not have to be a Jazz dancer to this Jazz exercise program!
This practical 45-minute exercise program is divided into SIX Exercise Sections. It has been devised and developed by a Jazz dance artist for dancers, who train in all dance styles and forms and equally can work for dance and fitness enthusiasts, who are looking for and a new way to workout and get their creative Jazz fix.
The BOP Jazz Exercise Program is designed to work the whole body, from head to toe and from the inside and out. The goal of the BOP Jazz Exercise Program, is assist dancers to achieve toned and sculptured muscles, flexibility & strength, improve stamina & energy levels and ignite the aural capacity and inner creative sensibilities found within connecting the movement to the music.
Over the centuries dance and music has proven to be a gateway to finding physical well-being, inner health, creative motivation, individual expression and more importantly personal growth, which can assist each one of us on our every day journey through life.
The exercise program aims to inspire on a musical (aural) level too. Each exercise section is accompanied by original contemporary jazz music created specifically for the exercises by BOP Co-Director, Composer, Music Producer, Jazz Trumpeter and music educator - Paul Jenkins.
The musical soundscape is there to support the dancers understanding of musical timing, but also the expression and demonstration of movement, co-ordination and breathing.
As the music is to be listened to repeatedly, the compositions are emotionally inviting and sensory to the ear, so as to enable you to experience a musical journey along with the journey of the exercises.