Jazz Dance Vocabulary 1

DEFINITION

3 "corners" - front, back, side and in/touch

• Ball Change

• Box Step/Jazz Square

DEFINITION

Upper Body in line AND tipped from the knees down

• Hinge

• Isolation

DEFINITION

Hands OR feet bend at the joints

• Flex

• Isolation

DEFINITION

Move side, back, side, front

• Grapevine

• Isolation

DEFINITION

Rocking step back

• Chassé

• Ball Change

DEFINITION

Fingers together, thumbs in

• Chassé

• Blades

DEFINITION

Step touch (front), step touch (back)

• Charleston

• Chassé

DEFINITION

Step-together-step. Uses Turnout

• Charleston

• Chassé

Which vocabulary word is shown in the picture? There is only one correct response.

• Charleston

• Hinge

• Blades

• Grapevine

Which vocabulary word is shown in the picture? There is only one correct response.

• Flex

• Hinge

• Ball Change

• Grapevine